Responsible Classroom Management, Grades K–5
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"The Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) truly lets teachers teach and the principal serve as the instructional leader. RCM is a brilliant concept that has cut office referrals by as much as 80% and dropout rates by 50%. The book provides principals and teachers with implementation steps for introducing the entire faculty or even the district to this wonderful program that takes students from a mindset of entitlement into a real-life world of being responsible for their own actions from day one."
—Chris Lineberry, Principal
Harmon Elementary School, San Tan Valley, AZ
Reduce office referrals, decrease suspensions, and increase responsible student behavior!
Written for principals and teachers, this nationally tested discipline plan for Grades K–5 emphasizes a team approach to managing student behavior. The authors' Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) demonstrates how a behavior support system can promote good citizenship and appropriate social conduct. This all-inclusive resource offers:
- A research-based model that shows teachers how to reinforce responsible behavior in a warm inviting classroom environment
- Guidelines for developing flexible behavior standards and effective consequences in place of rigid rules
- An end-of-book toolbox with numerous tools, samples, and field-tested consequences for introducing, implementing, and monitoring Responsible Classroom Management schoolwide
Additional tools and resources to help you implement Responsible Classroom Management are available here.
Contents
List of Tools
List of Tools
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
- 1. Understanding The RCMPlan™
- The RCMPlan™
- Becoming a Successful RCM Teacher
- A Model for Improving Instruction and Behavior
- An Invitation to Change: The RCMPlan™ Inventory
- Looking Ahead
- 2. Teaching Students Responsibility Within Warm and Inviting Classrooms
- The Original and Still Functional Correlates for Teaching Responsibility
- Expecting Responsibility and Civility in the Classroom
- Experimenting With Responsibility and Civility in the Classroom
- Modeling Responsible Behavior
- The Four Types of Inviting Teachers
- Preparing to Modify Classroom Procedures
- Student Roles and Additions to the Classroom
- Group Activities
- Looking Ahead
- 3. Standards, Guidelines, and Expected Behaviors
- Why Rules Do Not Work With Elementary Children
- Replacing Rules With School and Classroom Standards, Guidelines, and Expected Behaviors
- Building School Guidelines for Outside the Classroom
- Developing Classroom Guidelines
- Teaching the Standards and Guidelines to Students
- Looking Ahead
- 4. Using Consequences to Teach Responsibility
- Using Logical Consequences Versus Punishment
- Developing a Pool of Consequences for Selective Use in the Classroom
- Consequences for More Serious Infractions: The Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Using ICU Effectively
- Behavior Improvement Agreements (BIAs)
- The DRC's Supervisory Process
- A Sample of Grade-Specific Consequences
- Group Activities
- Looking Ahead
Resource A: The RCMPlan™ Principal's Guide
Resource A: The RCMPlan™ Principal's Guide
Resource B: The RCMPlan™ Toolbox
Resource B: The RCMPlan™ Toolbox
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"The Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) truly lets teachers teach and the principal serve as the instructional leader. RCM is a brilliant concept that has cut office referrals by as much as 80% and dropout rates by 50%. The book provides principals and teachers with implementation steps for introducing the entire faculty or even the district to this wonderful program that takes students from a mindset of entitlement into a real-life world of being responsible for their own actions from day one."
—Chris Lineberry, Principal
Harmon Elementary School, San Tan Valley, AZ
Reduce office referrals, decrease suspensions, and increase responsible student behavior!
Written for principals and teachers, this nationally tested discipline plan for Grades K–5 emphasizes a team approach to managing student behavior. The authors' Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) demonstrates how a behavior support system can promote good citizenship and appropriate social conduct. This all-inclusive resource offers:
- A research-based model that shows teachers how to reinforce responsible behavior in a warm inviting classroom environment
- Guidelines for developing flexible behavior standards and effective consequences in place of rigid rules
- An end-of-book toolbox with numerous tools, samples, and field-tested consequences for introducing, implementing, and monitoring Responsible Classroom Management schoolwide
Additional tools and resources to help you implement Responsible Classroom Management are available here.
Contents
List of Tools
List of Tools
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
- 1. Understanding The RCMPlan™
- The RCMPlan™
- Becoming a Successful RCM Teacher
- A Model for Improving Instruction and Behavior
- An Invitation to Change: The RCMPlan™ Inventory
- Looking Ahead
- 2. Teaching Students Responsibility Within Warm and Inviting Classrooms
- The Original and Still Functional Correlates for Teaching Responsibility
- Expecting Responsibility and Civility in the Classroom
- Experimenting With Responsibility and Civility in the Classroom
- Modeling Responsible Behavior
- The Four Types of Inviting Teachers
- Preparing to Modify Classroom Procedures
- Student Roles and Additions to the Classroom
- Group Activities
- Looking Ahead
- 3. Standards, Guidelines, and Expected Behaviors
- Why Rules Do Not Work With Elementary Children
- Replacing Rules With School and Classroom Standards, Guidelines, and Expected Behaviors
- Building School Guidelines for Outside the Classroom
- Developing Classroom Guidelines
- Teaching the Standards and Guidelines to Students
- Looking Ahead
- 4. Using Consequences to Teach Responsibility
- Using Logical Consequences Versus Punishment
- Developing a Pool of Consequences for Selective Use in the Classroom
- Consequences for More Serious Infractions: The Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Using ICU Effectively
- Behavior Improvement Agreements (BIAs)
- The DRC's Supervisory Process
- A Sample of Grade-Specific Consequences
- Group Activities
- Looking Ahead
Resource A: The RCMPlan™ Principal's Guide
Resource A: The RCMPlan™ Principal's Guide
Resource B: The RCMPlan™ Toolbox
Resource B: The RCMPlan™ Toolbox
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Responsible Classroom Management, Grades K–5
A Schoolwide Plan
April 2010 | 152 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781412973908 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781452296296 | $35.00 |
"The Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) truly lets teachers teach and the principal serve as the instructional leader. RCM is a brilliant concept that has cut office referrals by as much as 80% and dropout rates by 50%. The book provides principals and teachers with implementation steps for introducing the entire faculty or even the district to this wonderful program that takes students from a mindset of entitlement into a real-life world of being responsible for their own actions from day one."
—Chris Lineberry, Principal
Harmon Elementary School, San Tan Valley, AZ
Reduce office referrals, decrease suspensions, and increase responsible student behavior!
Written for principals and teachers, this nationally tested discipline plan for Grades K–5 emphasizes a team approach to managing student behavior. The authors' Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) demonstrates how a behavior support system can promote good citizenship and appropriate social conduct. This all-inclusive resource offers:
- A research-based model that shows teachers how to reinforce responsible behavior in a warm inviting classroom environment
- Guidelines for developing flexible behavior standards and effective consequences in place of rigid rules
- An end-of-book toolbox with numerous tools, samples, and field-tested consequences for introducing, implementing, and monitoring Responsible Classroom Management schoolwide
Additional tools and resources to help you implement Responsible Classroom Management are available here.
Table Of Contents:
- List of Tools
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- 1. Understanding The RCMPlan™
- The RCMPlan™
- Becoming a Successful RCM Teacher
- A Model for Improving Instruction and Behavior
- An Invitation to Change: The RCMPlan™ Inventory
- Looking Ahead
- 2. Teaching Students Responsibility Within Warm and Inviting Classrooms
- The Original and Still Functional Correlates for Teaching Responsibility
- Expecting Responsibility and Civility in the Classroom
- Experimenting With Responsibility and Civility in the Classroom
- Modeling Responsible Behavior
- The Four Types of Inviting Teachers
- Preparing to Modify Classroom Procedures
- Student Roles and Additions to the Classroom
- Group Activities
- Looking Ahead
- 3. Standards, Guidelines, and Expected Behaviors
- Why Rules Do Not Work With Elementary Children
- Replacing Rules With School and Classroom Standards, Guidelines, and Expected Behaviors
- Building School Guidelines for Outside the Classroom
- Developing Classroom Guidelines
- Teaching the Standards and Guidelines to Students
- Looking Ahead
- 4. Using Consequences to Teach Responsibility
- Using Logical Consequences Versus Punishment
- Developing a Pool of Consequences for Selective Use in the Classroom
- Consequences for More Serious Infractions: The Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Using ICU Effectively
- Behavior Improvement Agreements (BIAs)
- The DRC's Supervisory Process
- A Sample of Grade-Specific Consequences
- Group Activities
- Looking Ahead
- Resource A: The RCMPlan™ Principal's Guide
- Resource B: The RCMPlan™ Toolbox
- References
- Index