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Defusing/De-escalation
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Active Response Beads: Defusing Strategy
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Calming the Agitated Student
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How to Reduce Disruptive Behaviors Through a Brief Escape Break: Class Pass
Behavior Intervention Apps
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Behavior Intervention Planner: Online App
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Behavior Report Card Maker: Online App
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Jackpot Reward Finder: Online App
Communication Tools
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Effective Teacher Commands
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Precision Requests: Increase Compliance
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Working With Defiant Kids: Communication Tools for Teachers
Pre-K Through Gr 2
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Primary Classrooms: Language Strategies
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Zone Defense System: Primary Classrooms
Self-Management
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Self-Monitoring: 7-Step Plan
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Self-Monitoring: Attention to Instruction
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Self-Monitoring: The Convenience of Checklists
Special Needs
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Extending Learning
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Forced-Choice Reinforcer Assessment: Guidelines
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Teaching Children With Developmental Disabilities: Classroom Ideas
Rewards
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Appropriate School Performance
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Jackpot! Ideas for Classroom Rewards
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Trouble-Shooting Reward Programs: A Teacher's Guide
Challenging Students
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'Rubber-Band' Intervention
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Behavior Contracts
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Behavior Management: Big Ideas
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Breaking the Attention-Seeking Habit: The Power of Random Positive Teacher Attention
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Check-In/Check-Out: Behavioral Conferences
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Dodging the Power-Struggle Trap: Ideas for Teachers
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How to Reduce Disruptive Behavior Through Antecedent Physical Exercise
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Points for Grumpy
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Response Effort
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Response-Cost Lottery
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School-Wide Strategies for Managing... DEFIANCE / NON-COMPLIANCE
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School-Wide Strategies for Managing... HYPERACTIVITY
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School-Wide Strategies for Managing... OFF-TASK / INATTENTION
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Self-Monitoring: Helping Students to Change Their Own Behaviors
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Strategies for Working With Emotionally Unpredictable Students
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Talk Ticket
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Teacher Behavioral Strategies: A Menu
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Time Out From Reinforcement
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What Every Teacher Should Know About…Punishment Techniques and Student Behavior Plans
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‘Defensive Behavior Management’: Advance Planning, Connecting With the Student, and Defusing Crisis Situations
Motivation
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Activities Classroom
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Encouraging Student Academic Motivation
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Finding the Spark: More Tips for Building Student Motivation
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Growth Mindset Statements: Encouraging Students to Try
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How to: Increase Motivation: Learning Contracts
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Motivating Students Via High-Probability Requests
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Motivation Challenge 1: The Student Cannot Do the Work
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Motivation Challenge 2: The Response Effort to Do the Work Seems Too Great
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Motivation Challenge 3: Classroom Instruction Does Not Engage
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Motivation Challenge 4: The Student Does Not See an Adequate Payoff for Doing the Work
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Motivation Challenge 5: The Student Lacks Confidence that He or She Can Do the Work
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Motivation Challenge 6: The Student Lacks a Positive Relationship with the Teacher
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Motivation Trap: Increase Academic Engagement
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School-Home Note
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Teacher Praise: An Efficient Tool to Motivate Students
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Wise Feedback: Help Students Accept Constructive Criticism
Schoolwide Classroom/Mgmt
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Color Wheel: Helping Students to Follow Classwide Rules
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Critters!: Rewarding Positive Behaviors
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Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate: Teacher Advice
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Good Behavior Game
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Group Self-Monitoring
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Mystery Motivator: Classwide Intervention
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Positive Peer Reports: Changing Negative Behaviors By Rewarding Student Compliments
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Preventing Graffiti and Vandalism: Enlisting the Power of Classrooms
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Respectful Classroom
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Safe Playground
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School-Wide Strategies for Managing... BUS CONDUCT
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Smooth Classroom Traffic
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Strategies to Prepare Classrooms for Substitute Teachers
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Teacher-Student Learning Game: Large & Small-Group Strategy
Bully Prevention
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Bullies: Turning Around Negative Behaviors
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Bullying: What It Is & What Schools Can Do About It
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Bystanders: Turning Onlookers into Bully-Prevention Agents
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Locations: Transforming Schools from Bully-Havens to Safe Havens
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Victims: Preventing Students From Becoming 'Bully-Targets'