Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management Smith Dominique Paperback

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching.

After a comprehensive overview of the roots of the restorative practices movement in schools, the authors explain how to - Establish procedures and expectations for student behavior that encourage the development of positive interpersonal skills; Develop a nonconfrontational