Full Description
Foster responsibility, empathy, and self-regulation in every learner.
Hundreds of schools across North America are embracing Larry Thompson's Responsibility-Centered Discipline (RCD) - a groundbreaking approach that supports students in developing intrinsic motivation and growing as conscientious and active members of their school communities. Emphasizing responsibility, empathy, and self-regulation, RCD offers a transformative whole-school method to create a thriving school climate and responsible students.
In this clear and explicit guide, Thompson presents an overview of RCD and its foundations, the six exits students commonly use to avoid responsibility, a structured conversation to return students to a path of responsibility, and a process educators can implement to create a solutions space. Additional features include:
Success stories from the field
Research highlights
Coaching conversations
Questions to help readers apply the information to their own contexts
A must-read for teachers and education leaders seeking to reimagine discipline for a healthier and more supportive educational environment, Responsibility-Centered Discipline provides research-based actions to build skills such as responsibility, perseverance, empathy, and self-regulation in every learner from preK through high school.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Defining RCD's Key Concepts
Chapter 1. Responsibility-Centered Discipline: Defining RCD
Chapter 2. Self-Control: Elevating an Essential Skill
Part II: The Responsibility-Centered Discipline Process
Chapter 3. Step 1, The Foundations: Shifting a school from rules to skills (values)
Chapter 4. Step 2, The Six Exits: Recognizing how students avoid responsibility
Chapter 5. Step 3, Closing the Exits: Helping students embrace responsibility
Chapter 6. Step 4 (Part I), Addressing Higher Levels of Challenge: Assisting students who need more support
Chapter 7. Step 4 (Part II), In-School-Solutions: Reimaging school-based suspension
Chapter 8. Leading RCD
Appendix A: Activity: Creating Foundations With Staff
Appendix B: Practice scenarios by level
Appendix C: Response-Ability Mats
