Tools Not Rules
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Tools Not Rules®
Author: Claudia Bertoloni-Smith
language: en
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Release Date: 2025-02-11
Engage your students in monitoring, understanding, and improving their behavior using the Tools Not Rules (TNR) approach. By limiting isolation, shame, and judgment from the choices students make, this approach allows students to honestly assess and effectively regulate their behaviors. With helpful strategies and thoughtful language, teachers using TNR can create a welcoming and encouraging environment for students to learn, improve, and excel. K–8 teachers and administrators can use this book to: Promote a healthy educator mindset that recognizes students are more than the choices they make Increase positive connections with students by helping them diminish behaviors getting in the way of academic success Develop an effective and reliable plan for working with behaviors that hinder student learning Encourage honesty to develop students’ accountability regarding their behavior choices Employ diverse strategies to promote students’ behavior awareness and self-regulation Improve the classroom community and learning environment through the use of a novel approach to changing whole class and individual student behavior Adopt thoughtful language that facilitates constructive self-assessment and improvement Build an empathetic community among students, recognizing that everyone can choose unproductive behaviors and then change to more effective ones Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Ensuring Honesty Above Anything Else Chapter 2: Establishing That You Are Not Your Behavior Chapter 3: Adopting the Tools Not Rules Language Chapter 4: Teaching and Using the Tools Not Rules Language With Students Chapter 5: Changing the Most Challenging Behaviors With the Star Chart Chapter 6: Overcoming Implementation Challenges and Realizing Possibilities Epilogue: Moving Forward Appendix: The Tools Not Rules Study References and Resources Index
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"Classrooms present diverse arrays of student personalities and behaviors. Teachers never know what unique combination of students they will lead each year, what gamut of behavior choices those students will make each day. The possibility of negative behaviors can be daunting to address, but teachers can shape their classrooms in ways that encourage students to examine and improve their behaviors without compromising their class performance and self-esteem. In Tools Not Rules: Developing Self-Regulation for Improved Student Behavior in Grades K-8, Claudia Bertolone-Smith and Marlene Moyer present the Tools Not Rules (TNR) approach, a method that empowers students in monitoring, understanding, and improving their behaviors. This approach encourages students to dissociate who they are as people from the good and bad choices they make, allowing them to assess and regulate their behaviors more effectively without detrimental consequences of self-denigration, isolation, and judgment. Equipped with thoughtful language and useful strategies, teachers who employ the TNR approach will create a welcoming classroom environment in which all students have opportunities to grow, improve, and excel, both academically and behaviorally"--