The School Climate Transformation Grant was released in 2014 as a competitive grant to support state educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical ...

When teachers encounter disruptive or noncompliant students in the classroom, they typically respond by focusing on the negative behavior. When teachers encounter disruptive or noncompliant students ...

Managing student behavior is probably one of the biggest challenges for teachers - and one of the main reasons why so many end up quitting the classroom. All too often, the temptation is to focus on ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – As a researcher of student mental health and well-being, Keith Herman has found that, in general, offering students more positive encouragement rather than negative reprimands not only ...

Lucia Martinez’s kindergarten class at Channing Elementary School spent the first minutes of Tuesday’s school day learning about facial expressions. Martinez held up a large picture of two children.

Classroom management is paramount to effective teaching. It sets the stage for a productive learning environment where students can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. The psychology ...

Understanding and managing a room full of students is often a “trial by fire” for less experienced educators, according to Megan Ryan, the mentor coordinator for teacher professional development at ...

Educators today are trying to manage a new wave of student behavior, and it’s proving to be one of the toughest parts of their job. Educators are facing an unprecedented wave of behavioral challenges ...

B. F. Skinner, the founder of the research and scholarship domain of applied behavioral science (ABS), communicated and validated the basic but profound principle––selection by consequences. Indeed, ...