Tools Not Rules(R)

Engage your students in monitoring, understanding, and improving their behavior using the Tools Not Rules (TNR) approach. By limiting isolation, shame, and judgment from the choices students make, this approach allows students to honestly assess and effectively regulate their behaviors. With helpful strategies and thoughtful language, teachers using TNR can create a welcoming and encouraging environment for students to learn, improve, and excel. K 8 teachers and administrators can use this book to: Promote a healthy educator mindset that recognizes students are more than the choices they makeIncrease positive connections with students by helping them diminish behaviors getting in the way of academic successDevelop an effective and reliable plan for working with behaviors that hinder student learningEncourage honesty to develop students accountability regarding their behavior choicesEmploy diverse strategies to promote students behavior awareness and self-regulationImprove the classroom community and learning environment through the use of a novel approach to changing whole class and individual student behaviorAdopt thoughtful language that facilitates constructive self-assessment and improvementBuild an empathetic community among students, recognizing that everyone can choose unproductive behaviors and then change to more effective onesContents:IntroductionChapter 1: Ensuring Honesty Above Anything ElseChapter 2: Establishing That You Are Not Your BehaviorChapter 3: Adopting the Tools Not Rules LanguageChapter 4: Teaching and Using the Tools Not Rules Language With StudentsChapter 5: Changing the Most Challenging Behaviors With the Star ChartChapter 6: Overcoming Implementation Challenges and Realizing PossibilitiesEpilogue: Moving ForwardAppendix: The Tools Not Rules StudyReferences and ResourcesIndex