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Educators want to know what interventions really work with specific students with challenging behaviors, and they must know how to support good behavior rather than punish bad behavior. This book is designed for all teachers, both general and special education, as they strive to work effectively with this increasing number of students. Drawing upon research and the author's many years of experience in working with students with significant behavioral challenges, this book focuses on fifteen behavioral interventions that research has proven to be effective.

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Well-researched and well-written, this book will be treasured by anyone working with children and adolescents. The fifteen easy-to-use, effective behavior interventions are equally effective in addressing the behaviors of general education students and those identified as requiring specialized services, and are presented in an easy to read and easy-to-implement format. How I wish this book had been available thirty-six years ago when I started my teaching career! -- Joyce Sager, Special Education Inclusion Teacher This is a great book! The clear, concise manner this book is written in allows for ease of implementation of the positive behavior interventions presented. It will help achieve success in the areas of both behavior and academics. -- Susan Schipper, Teacher This is your go-to guide for positive behavior interventions that will energize instruction and learning for all students! -- Renee Bernhardt, ED.S. Curriculum and Instruction This book provides teachers positive, easy-to-read techniques and ideas to use with students experiencing motivational and behavioral problems in the classroom. Any classroom teacher would benefit from using it. -- Marsha Basanda, 5th Grade Teacher Given the challenges of today's classrooms, a quick reference guide to managing challenging behaviors can be a game changer for students and the teachers. This book provides useful, research-based strategies that have a high likelihood of calmly and successfully resolving potential problems. -- Sylvia Rockwell, Assistant Professor of Education

Given the challenges of today's classrooms, a quick reference guide to managing challenging behaviors can be a game changer for students and the teachers. This book provides useful, research-based strategies that have a high likelihood of calmly and successfully resolving potential problems. -- Sylvia Rockwell, Assistant Professor of Education This book provides teachers positive, easy-to-read techniques and ideas to use with students experiencing motivational and behavioral problems in the classroom. Any classroom teacher would benefit from using it. -- Marsha Basanda, 5th Grade Teacher This is your go-to guide for positive behavior interventions that will energize instruction and learning for all students! -- Renee Bernhardt, ED.S. Curriculum and Instruction This is a great book! The clear, concise manner this book is written in allows for ease of implementation of the positive behavior interventions presented. It will help achieve success in the areas of both behavior and academics. -- Susan Schipper, Teacher Well-researched and well-written, this book will be treasured by anyone working with children and adolescents. The fifteen easy-to-use, effective behavior interventions are equally effective in addressing the behaviors of general education students and those identified as requiring specialized services, and are presented in an easy to read and easy-to-implement format. How I wish this book had been available thirty-six years ago when I started my teaching career! -- Joyce Sager, Special Education Inclusion Teacher

Given the challenges of today's classrooms, a quick reference guide to managing challenging behaviors can be a game changer for students and the teachers. This book provides useful, research-based strategies that have a high likelihood of calmly and successfully resolving potential problems. --Sylvia Rockwell

Given the challenges of today's classrooms, a quick reference guide to managing challenging behaviors can be a game changer for students and the teachers. This book provides useful, research-based strategies that have a high likelihood of calmly and successfully resolving potential problems. --Sylvia Rockwell, Assistant Professor of Education

Well-researched and well-written, this book will be treasured by anyone working with children and adolescents. The fifteen easy-to-use, effective behavior interventions are equally effective in addressing the behaviors of general education students and those identified as requiring specialized services, and are presented in an easy to read and easy-to-implement format. How I wish this book had been available thirty-six years ago when I started my teaching career! -- Joyce Sager, Special Education Inclusion Teacher This is a great book! The clear, concise manner this book is written in allows for ease of implementation of the positive behavior interventions presented. It will help achieve success in the areas of both behavior and academics. -- Susan Schipper, Teacher This is your go-to guide for positive behavior interventions that will energize instruction and learning for all students! -- Renee Bernhardt, ED.S. Curriculum and Instruction This book provides teachers positive, easy-to-read techniques and ideas to use with students experiencing motivational and behavioral problems in the classroom. Any classroom teacher would benefit from using it. -- Marsha Basanda, 5th Grade Teacher Given the challenges of today's classrooms, a quick reference guide to managing challenging behaviors can be a game changer for students and the teachers. This book provides useful, research-based strategies that have a high likelihood of calmly and successfully resolving potential problems. -- Sylvia Rockwell, Assistant Professor of Education

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Beverley Holden Johns brings her 35 years of experience working with students with learning disabilities (LD) and/or behavioral disorders (EBD) within the public schools to her current post as learning and behavior consultant and an adjunct instructor for MacMurray College, where she teaches the course on special education law, adaptations for the general education classroom, and EBD. Johns is the lead author of ten books (and co-author of another) including Reduction of School Violence: Alternatives to Suspension, Techniques for Managing Verbally and Physically Aggressive Students, Surviving Internal Politics Within the School, Safe Schools, Teacher’s Reflective Calendar and Planning Journal, Effective Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders, Students with Disabilities and General Education: A Desktop Reference for School Personnel, Getting Behavioral Interventions Right, Preparing Test-Resistant Students for Assessments: A Staff Training Guide, The Ethical Educator, and Motivating the Unmotivated Student. She has written a workbook to accompany a video for paraprofessionals entitled The Paraprofessional’s Guide to Managing Student Behavior and over 40 articles. She is co-author with Janet Lerner of the seminal college LD textbook, the 11th edition of Learning Disabilities and Related Mild Disabilities, and they are currently working on a college textbook on Students with Special Needs in General Education: Practical Adaptations and Teaching Strategies. She is the 2000 recipient of the CEC Outstanding Leadership Award from the International Council for Exceptional Children, Past International President (and current board member) of the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders, and the 2007 Recipient of the Romaine P. Mackie Leadership Service Award. Johns is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American Education and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.

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