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Eliminate school discipline and classroom management problems with schoolwide restorative justice
Washington Post bestseller Hacking School Discipline brought restorative practice to classrooms around the world. The sequel, Hacking School Discipline TOGETHER, is helping all stakeholders--teachers, students, counselors, principals, superintendents, and parents--create a schoolwide restorative justice system that can change the culture of schools around the world.
We may feel powerless to have a positive impact on our students and not trust the other adults to do the right thing, rather than confidently addressing student behaviors in ways that help them learn new skills, build better relationships, and learn to be accountable.
Enter the Hacking School Discipline sequel Hacking School Discipline TOGETHER, featuring all new content from 40-year teacher, school leader, and restorative justice expert Jeffrey Benson, who provides a roadmap for schoolwide staff unity, compassion, consistency, and restorative practices that do far more than send students to detention and suspension.
Hacking School Discipline TOGETHER shows you how to:Fix the chronic structural flaws in routines and practices that make it harder for students to do the right thing.
Take positive actions when working with a student who is struggling to behave well.
Clarify the role administrators must play in addressing significant misbehaviors.
Take the critical steps for integrating a student back into the classroom.
Prevent misbehaviors rather than react to them.
Understand how important it is for all staff to be pulling in the same direction and how to make that happen.
This book uniquely speaks to administrators guiding a school to a culture of restorative practice, to staff members longing to help all students learn from their impulsive decisions, and to teachers creating classrooms that foster responsibility, forgiveness, and accountability.
About the author
Jeffrey Benson has over forty years of experience as a teacher, mentor, and school administrator. His passion is supporting schools to be more successful with more students. He is an internationally known author, and his books include Hanging In: Strategies for Working with the Students Who Challenge Us Most; Ten Steps for Managing Change in Schools; Teaching the Whole Teen: Everyday Practices that Promote Success and Resilience in School and Life; and Improve Every Lesson Plan with SEL. He also authored the widely read article "100 Repetitions."Jeffrey is often hired to lead school change initiatives, facilitating interdisciplinary teams that convert long-standing dilemmas into cutting-edge growth and community-building and creating more inclusive school and classroom cultures. He is a member of the ASCD faculty, is frequently published in education journals, and speaks at conferences on such topics as working with challenging students, integrating SEL into everyday practices, and the science of learning and teaching. His website is JeffreyBenson.org.
