Addressing the Unproductive Classroom Behaviours of Students with Special Needs. Steve Chinn, $32.95

Certain classroom behaviours can signify an underlying learning disability. This book will help you recognize potential indicators of Asperger Syndrome, dyslexia, dyspraxia, AD/HD, physical disabilities and speech and language disorders. The book also explores the benefits of different interventions; and offers practical strategies for improving pupils' behaviours, social skills and self-esteem.

This practical, accessible book is an essential tool kit for special educational needs coordinators, learning support staff and teachers in both primary and secondary schools.

Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers: Teaching Students with Tourette’s, Bipolar Disorder, Executive Dysfunction, OCD, ADHD and More. Leslie Packer & Sheryl Pruitt, $34.95

Current estimates indicate that 20% of school-aged children, K-12, have one or more neurological conditions, and of these, most have multiple diagnoses.

Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers is an educator's go-to source for creating a supportive environment to successfully teach children with multiple neurological disorders including Tourette's Syndrome, OCD, ADHD, LD, Nonverbal Learning Disability, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger's Syndrome, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Executive Dysfunction, Sensory Processing Disorder, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep (PANDAS), Bipolar Disorder, "Storms" or "Rages", Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Sleep Problems. Parents, school psychologists, and social workers will also find this book essential reading.

The wealth of practical tools and strategies discussed in this book are founded on the authors' considerable experience treating children with neurological disorders in their private practices and conducting training workshops for teachers, as well as parenting their own children with multiple diagnoses. Full of charts, graphs, lists, quotes, and vignettes, this well-organized resource makes it easy for busy teachers to find the information they need, including:

• Understanding neurological disorders and why they may overlap, the behaviors they cause, and sanity-saving premises about understanding these students
• Each disorder's characteristics, impacts on academics, behavior & social relationships, teacher/student-friendly strategies, other conditions to be on the lookout for
• Conditions commonly observed in students with neurological disorders such as handwriting & visual-motor integration issues, language deficits, and difficulties with written expression, math calculation, reading, and more
• Assistive technology, testing accommodations, homework issues, interventions to address challenging behaviors, school-based related services, positive school-home collaboration, and helping children with peer relationships

Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers also includes a glossary and resources, and its appendix of screening tools, forms, and checklists are on the accompanying CD-ROM for easy reproduction.

Classroom Management: 24 Strategies Every Teacher Needs to Know, Grades 3-8. David Adamson, $24.99

A mentor educator shares practical and proven strategies for managing behavior, keeping students on task and creating a positive, productive classroom.

The Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide, Grades K to 12. Ronald Partin, $35.95

Practical strategies, management techniques and reproducible for new and experienced teachers.

Counseling Toward Solutions: a Practical Solution-Focused Program for Working with Students, Teachers and Parents, 2nd Edition. Linda Metcalf, $35.99 Grades K-12

Counseling Toward Solutions shows how to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing when a problem does not occur rather than focusing on problems or what caused them. This revised and updated second edition presents a positive program for changing individual behavior that empowers students of all ages to deal with their own problems and gain self-esteem in the process.

Motivational Interviewing for Effective Classroom Management: the Classroom Check-Up. Wendy Reinke, Keith Herman & Randy Sprick, $35.95

Highly accessible and user-friendly, this book focuses on helping K-12 teachers increase their use of classroom management strategies that work. It addresses motivational aspects of teacher consultation that are essential, yet often overlooked. The Classroom Check-Up is a step-by-step model for assessing teachers' organizational, instructional, and behavior management practices; helping them develop a menu of intervention options; and overcoming obstacles to change. Easy-to-learn motivational interviewing techniques are embedded throughout. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding to facilitate photocopying, the book includes 20 reproducible forms, checklists, and templates.

Positive Strategies for Students with Behavior Problems. Daniel Crimmins, Anne Farrell, Philip Smith & Alison Bailey, $33.95

This research-based and practical manual has effective solutions for educators from grades K–12. Developed specifically for use with children with persistent or severe behavior problems, this book introduces educators to the systematic Positive Strategies method, which helps teachers understand why behaviors persist, prevent problem behavior, and replace challenging behaviors with better alternatives.

Preschool ABCs:  Assessment, Behavior & Classroom Management. Joanie Oliphant, Editor, $13.95

Preschool ABCs: Assessment, Behavior & Classroom Management provides classroom management strategies as well as assessment tools and enrichment activities designed to strengthen development, reach milestones, and curb behavioral issues. By monitoring the social-emotional growth, language, cognitive development, and behavior issues in your toddler or preschool classroom, you can provide an effective learning environment for every student. 160 pages including checklists, milestones, and reproducible activities.

Prevent, Teach, Reinforce: the School-Based Model of Individualized Positive Behavior Support. Glen Dunlap, et al, $50.95 (K to 8)

Developed by some of the most respected authorities on positive behavior support, this innovative model gives school-based teams a five-step plan for reducing problems unresolved by typical behavior management strategies. With this thorough blueprint, education professionals will learn how to prevent behavior problems by adjusting the curriculum and environment; teach proactive communication skills; and reinforce pro-social behavior and academic achievement.

Includes a CD-ROM with all the printable forms and tools needed, such as Behavior Support Plan templates and a Functional Behavioral Assessment.

Preventing Challenging Behavior in Your Classroom: Positive Behavior Support and Effective Classroom Management. Matt Tincani, $27.95

Reduce disruptive behavior problems and enhance student learning using the practical and evidence-based techniques in this book.

Reluctant Disciplinarian: Advice on Classroom Management from a Softy Who Became (Eventually) a Successful Teacher.  Gary Rubinstein, $13.95

Funny and insightful, this book relives Gary Rubinstein’s truly disastrous first year of teaching - armed only with idealism and absolutely no classroom management skills.

As Rubinstein details his transformation from incompetent to successful teacher, he shows what works and what doesn’t work when managing a classroom.

Self-Regulation for Kids K-12: Strategies for Calming Minds and Behavior.  Patricia Tollison, Katherine Synatschk & Gaea Logan, $48.95

Organized as both a text about self-regulation and a step-by-step, practical guide to developing a program for helping children and adolescents, this text is a valuable resource for counselors, teachers, and behavior specialists.

Setting Limits in the Classroom, 3rd Edtition. Robert Mackenzie & Lisa Stanzione, $23.95

A complete guide to effective classroom management with a school-wide discipline plan.

Surviving and Thriving: Making classroom management and organization work for you and your students. Maria Carty, $12.95

Successful classroom organization and management can be the key to a calm, well-run classroom environment that promotes and encourages learning. This handy flipbook offers practical tips for a thoughtfully organized classroom, with effective routines and procedures that can be put into action before, during, and after learning.

The Teachable Moment: Seizing the Instants When Children Learn. Rebecca Branstetter, Editor, $16.95

The “aha” moment — the moment you know a student really gets it — that’s what many teachers live for. But these moments are not easy to come by and are the product of long hours in and out of the classroom.

From the poignant to the hilarious, these essays take us into the classroom and offer hope that the next teachable moment is out there — just waiting for the “aha” to happen.

Teaching Children Responsible Behavior: a Complete Toolkit.  Sandy Hagenbach, $43.95

Teaching Children Responsible Behavior is a flexible package that helps you manage your classes and shape positive behavior among children. Designed to help children learn to make better choices in every facet of their lives, this resources will help teachers to create a culture of respect in every classroom.

Includes a CD-ROM with visual aids, assignments, stories and other reproducible materials.

Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Students By Their Brains, 2nd Edition. LouAnne Johnson, $29.95

This handbook for improving morale by managing, disciplining and motivating your students includes practical suggestions for arranging your classroom, talking to students, avoiding the misbehavior cycle, and making your school a place where students learn and teachers teach. This new edition has been expanded to include coverage of the following topics: discipline, portfolio assessments, and technology in the classroom and advice for both new and experienced teachers on classroom management, motivation, and morale.

Teaching Tough Kids: Simple and Proven Strategies for Student Success. Mark le Messurier, $51.95

Teaching Tough Kids delivers a refreshing collection of realistic ideas to sustain the organizational and behavioural transformations of all students, particularly those who learn and react differently. They are complex kids who find life tougher than most. Teaching Tough Kids pays particularly close focus on students identified with executive functioning difficulties including Learning Disabilities, ADD/ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Asperger Syndrome. ‘Tough Kids’ may also be those students who have endured neglect or too much stress and uncertainty in their lives and as a result display classic symptoms of hyperactivity, hyper vigilance and impulsivity.

Highlighting the value of promoting positive connections, the author presents ways to incorporate inclusive ideas into everyday practice and construct pathways for students to become engaged in their learning and achieve success.

The Tough Kid® Book: Practical Classroom Management Strategies, 2nd Edition. Ginger Rhode, William Jenson & H. Kenton Reavis, $38.95 Grades 1-8

Constant and intense aggression, arguing, tantrums, noncompliance, and poor academic progress—these are characteristic of the Tough Kid. You can't "cure" Tough Kids, but you can use proactive, positive techniques to manage and motivate them. Effective management will help your Tough Kids succeed in school and make life in your classroom easier for you and for the other students.

THE TOUGH KID BOOK is for regular and special education teachers, counselors, instructional coaches, and any educator who wants effective and positively focused classrooms. Learn how to structure your classroom to ensure success for Tough Kids and use practical techniques for managing difficult students.

The Tough Kid® Tool Box: Straightforward, Classroom Tested Ready-to-Use Materials for Managing and Motivating Tough-to-Teach Students. Ginger Rhode, William Jenson & H. Kenton Reavis, $38.95 Grades K-12

THE TOUGH KID® TOOL BOX, companion to THE TOUGH KID® BOOK, supplies ready-to-use, classroom-tested materials to help motivate and manage even the toughest-to-teach students. Together in one convenient place, you will find forms, reproducibles, hints, and explanations to help you implement effective behavior management strategies. Includes CD with reproducible tools.

The Tough Kid® New Teacher Book: Practical Classroom Management Strategies. Daniel Morgan, William Jenson & Ginger Rhode, $22.95 Grades K-12

THE TOUGH KID® NEW TEACHER BOOK is an essential resource for anyone new to teaching. It is a practical, easy-to-use guide to managing even the most challenging classroom. The book focuses on strategies you can learn quickly and implement immediately:

• Set a positive tone for the entire school year.
• Create a positive learning environment with classroom rules and routines.
• Use Precision Requests to increase student compliance.
• Establish and enforce positive and negative consequences for student behavior.
• Deal effectively with kids who misbehave again and again.
• Put an end to particularly bothersome behaviors such as swearing, talk-outs, disrespectful interactions, and noncompliance.
• Reduce your own stress and frustration.

Spend your time teaching, not disciplining. THE TOUGH KID® NEW TEACHER BOOK will help you make your first year a happy and successful start to a fulfilling career.

Turnaround Leadership. Michael Fullan, $28.99

Turnaround Leadership expands the definition of organizational turnaround and shows how leaders can turn even the worst situation into an opportunity to shake-up and rejuvenate their schools. Indeed he goes beyond turnaround schools to show how entire systems can be transformed. Fullan examines the dynamics of what makes societies — and education systems — healthy or sick. He identifies the positive things turnaround schools do to get off the critical list, and explores what it takes to motivate large numbers of people to go beyond short-term solutions in order to achieve fundamental, sustainable reform.

The Well-Managed Classroom: Strategies to Create a Productive and Cooperative Social Climate in Your Learning Community, 2nd Edition. Michele Hensley, Walter Powell, Susan Lamke & Scott Hartman, $29.95

How can the school experience be humanized so that students feel connected, valued, and motivated to learn and achieve? How can the school environment be improved so that teachers and staff feel confident, respected and safe? The Well-Managed Classroom can show you how to overhaul or enhance the social climate and build a true "community" in your school. The authors describe the Girls and Boys Town Education Model, a school-based intervention strategy that emphasizes behavior management practices, relationship-building techniques, and social skills instruction. It offers you the structure and strategies needed to reduce disruptive behaviors and empower students with self-management skills.”

What to Do with the Kid Who ... Developing Cooperation, Self Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom, 3rd Edition. Kay Burke, $58.75

Kay Burke offers proven disciplinary ideas and strategies for the diverse classroom. This revised edition provides the foundation teachers need to help students take responsibility for their own behavior, resolve their own conflicts and celebrate their own learning.