Waltzing Home From Work

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Waltzing Home From Work

• Dr. John Draper
• National School Public Relations
• Association (NSPRA) Consultant
• www.JohnDraper.org

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• Mother and college son

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Do you want students to

• Tell the truth?
• Accept responsibility?
• Cooperate?
• Work on making you happy?

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Training the Troops

• Have teachers handle 95 or more of the problems
• Solve the problem before the parents get mad
• Get teachers to correct their own weaknesses

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Teacher Empowerment

• Providing consequences
• Accepting responsibility

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Defusing Anger

• Student sheet
• Teacher response

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Perception is Reality

• Teacher feedback
• Student survey

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• Large Groups
• Use positive peer pressure
• Have students work to make you happy
• Get an assembly quiet
• Find out who stole the from the locker room
• Drastically reduce the number of fights in your
  school

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Positive Peer Pressure

• Clear expectations
• Large group rewards
• NO group punishment!

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Recognition Program

• K.I.S.S.
• Make it a priority

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Assemblies

• Practice
• Quiet 1, 2, 3

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Who Did It?

• One clean sheet
• RTTET

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Take The Fun Out of Fighting

• The messenger boy
• The promoter

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One on One

• Get a student to tell the truth
• Supervise a student without looking
• Hold a parent in the palm of your hand
• Stop the Bully!
• Touch a students heart when you lecture

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Truth Book

• Put it in writing
• Consequence for the offense
• Consequence for the lie

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Block sanding

• Bad language/behavior
• Write it
• Sand it

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Tape recorder

• Stop the argument
• Keep it handy

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No Contact Contract

• Terms
• Consequences
• Rewards

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The One-Minute lecture

• 30 seconds of feeling
• 10 seconds of silence
• 20 seconds of compassion

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The Bridge-Builder
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Every Student is a Potential Winner! Some Are
Disguised As Losers - Dont Let Their
Appearances Fool You!
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Waltzing Home From Work

• Dr. John Draper
• National School Public Relations
• Association (NSPRA) Consultant
• john_at_johndraper.org