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Eliminate school discipline and classroom management problems with schoolwide restorative justiceWashington Post bestseller Hacking School Discipline brought restorative practice to classrooms around the world. The sequel, Hacking School Discipline TOGETHER, is helping all stakeholders--teachers, students, counselors, principals, superintendents, and parents--create a schoolwide restorative justice system that can change the culture of schools around the world.We may feel powerless to have a positive impact on our students and not trust the other adults to do the right thing, rather than confidently addressing student behaviors in ways that help them learn new skills, build better relationships, and learn to be accountable.Enter the Hacking School Discipline sequel Hacking School Discipline TOGETHER, featuring all new content from 40-year teacher, school leader, and restorative justice expert Jeffrey Benson, who provides a roadmap for schoolwide staff unity, compassion, consistency, and restorative practices that do far more than send students to detention and suspension.Hacking School Discipline TOGETHER shows you how to:Fix the chronic structural flaws in routines and practices that make it harder for students to do the right thing.Take positive actions when working with a student who is struggling to behave well.Clarify the role administrators must play in addressing significant misbehaviors.Take the critical steps for integrating a student back into the classroom.Prevent misbehaviors rather than react to them.Understand how important it is for all staff to be pulling in the same direction and how to make that happen.This book uniquely speaks to administrators guiding a school to a culture of restorative practice, to staff members longing to help all students learn from their impulsive decisions, and to teachers creating classrooms that foster responsibility, forgiveness, and accountability.

Provides explicit, step-by-step guidance on how to incorporate social and emotional learning (SEL) into K-12 lesson planning - without imposing a separate SEL curriculum. The book identifies SEL skills in three broad categories: skills for self, interpersonal skills, and skills as a community member.

About The Author: Jeffrey Benson has lived with OCD since he was a little boy. He had to struggle to cope with this disorder. In doing so, he learned how to manage the iterations of this disorder and actively live his life. At this point in time, he is at acceptance for the man that he is.About The Book: The book details my childhood and the learning experience that I went through trying to establish that I actually had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and what that meant. I break up my symptoms as to when they occur and why they might have been triggered. I separate the single elements such as the Obsessions, Doubt, Anxiety and the Compulsions. Compulsions can also be known as rituals. I walk the reader through the things that I have tried to lessen or even get rid of and the subsequent results. At that point in time, nobody really knew what OCD was. The overall difference that I think this book has, is that I break up the symptoms into many different aspects within the OCD. There is a repetative nature of the book that will provide an overall feeling of what it is like to have an OCD mindset. I have chosen this title due to the fact that the numbers are the core of the compulsions. They are fueled solely by the numbers. These various numbers are the active ingredient within my entire Obsessive Compulsive Disorder model. The book will provide the reality that a lot of people who suffer from OCD have to deal with the numbers no matter what the compulsion is. I wanted each person who lives in numbers to know that they are not alone. I take these symptoms and show how I manage them so that I can lead the life that I want. This is the story of how I live with my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and have come to accept it.Acknowledgement: Jeffrey's book "Locked In Numbers" is an intimate glimpse into what it's like to live with obsessive compulsive disorder. It chronicles the various manifestations of this complex disorder and describes Jeffrey's search for an enduring solution. "Locked In Numbers" is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand OCD and, more importantly, it provides hope for those who suffer from the condition. Highly recommended." -Michael Lara, M.D.

Many students arrive at school with unique mixtures of family histories, traumatic experiences, and special needs that test our skills and try our patience. In Hanging In: Strategies for Teaching the Students Who Challenge Us Most, Jeffrey Benson shows the value of tenacity and building connections in teaching the students who most need our help.

Whether they're the result of a mandate from on high, a crisis that needs addressing, or simply a desire for improvement, change initiatives are a constant in most every school. In this book, Jeffrey Benson provides educators with a proven, practical, and broadly applicable system for implementing new practices methodically and effectively.