Focuses on teaching social skills to the student who displays excesses in noncompliance and aggression and deficits in self-management.

"Practical classroom management strategies."--Cover.

Permission is granted for the purchasing teacher to reproduce the tools for use in her/his classroom.

The research-validated solutions included in this book are designed to reduce descriptive behaviour without big investments on the teacher's part. The solutions also provide "tough kids" with behavioral, academic, and social survival skills.

A Tough Kid Mindset teaches teens how to reach their full potential through applying the "ECE" Principles: Evaluate, Communicate, and Execute. It teaches teens the attributes of a real tough kid: purpose-driven, respectful, disciplined, a leader, Faithful, humble and confident.

Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control. How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character. Through their stories—and the stories of the children they are trying to help—Tough traces the links between childhood stress and life success. He uncovers the surprising ways in which parents do—and do not—prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides us with new insights into how to improve the lives of children growing up in poverty. Early adversity, scientists have come to understand, not only affects the conditions of children’s lives, it can also alter the physical development of their brains. But innovative thinkers around the country are now using this knowledge to help children overcome the constraints of poverty. With the right support, as Tough’s extraordinary reporting makes clear, children who grow up in the most painful circumstances can go on to achieve amazing things. This provocative and profoundly hopeful book has the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net. It will not only inspire and engage readers, it will also change our understanding of childhood itself.