10 Positive Classroom Management Strategies
This article discusses classroom management is a skill developed over time. The more experience you gain in the classroom, the more effective you are likely to become at encouraging students to meet or exceed expectations. However, even if you’re just getting started in your teaching career, you can apply the classroom management strategies offered.
Publication Date: June 2024
Publisher: College of Education, Grand Canyon University
25 Best Classroom Management Strategies Every Teacher Should Use
These classroom management strategies involve techniques educators can employ to effectively manage and minimize disruptions, allowing teachers to focus on delivering content and students to engage in meaningful learning.
Author: Taqwanda Hailey
Publication Date: December 2023
Publisher: Schools That Lead
Addressing Student Behavior to Meet Everyone’s Needs
Alternatives to exclusion are becoming increasingly popular in many school districts to improve behavior and keep students in the classroom, but these alternatives tend to group students without identifying and addressing their individualized needs. This research article reviews the existing literature on punitive school discipline, considers the benefits of alternative discipline, and strengthens the underexplored gaps in research by conceptualizing an approach teachers can use.
Author: Nasaskyia Hicks
Publication Date: December 2024
Publisher: Phi Delta Kappan
Are Fewer Students with Disabilities Suspended When Schools Implement PBIS?
This evaluation brief explores the relationship between schools’ implementation of Tier 1 (universal) support within a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework and the proportion of students with disabilities suspended.
Authors: Brandi Simonsen, Jennifer Freeman, Anthony Gambino, Sandra Sears, Katharine Meyer,
and Robert Hoselton
Publication Date: November 2021
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon
Chronic Absence
When a large number of students are absent, it affects the entire school. Teachers struggle to teach and students struggle to learn. This webpage offers four basic steps to address and reduce chronic absence in schools. Strategies and resources are included.
Publication Date: Updated September 2025
Publisher: Attendance Works
Classroom Behavior Management (Part 1): Key Concepts and Foundational Practices
This module overviews the effects of disruptive behaviors as well as important key concepts and foundational practices related to effective classroom behavior management, including cultural influences on behavior, the creation of positive climates and structured classrooms, and much more.
Publisher: IRIS Center, Vanderbilt University
Classroom Behavior Management (Part 2, Secondary): Developing a Behavior Management Plan
Developed specifically with middle and high school teachers in mind (e.g., 6th-12th grade), this module reviews the major components of a classroom behavior management plan (including rules, procedures, and consequences) and guides users through the steps of creating their own classroom behavior management plan.
Publisher: IRIS Center, Vanderbilt University
Classroom Management for Middle and High School Classrooms
This video offers ideas to make simple changes to entice students to group cooperation and increase ease for the instructor. These flexible ideas can be utilized by every teacher regardless of the subject being taught.
Author: Ann Reynolds
Publication Date: March 2023
Publisher: Ed Leaders Network
Correcting a Disruptive High School Student | The Totally Rad Guide to Classroom Cooperation
Watch this video to learn how correcting a disruptive high school student can be quirky, fun, and all about building them up. Turn those challenges into opportunities for connection and growth.
Author: Thomas LeGalley
Publication Date: September 2024
Publisher: McGraw Hill PreK-12
Dosing Up Schoolwide Support
In this podcast episode, experts discuss what to do when it is verified Tier 1 systems and practices are fully in place, but behavior trends continue to rise. The discussion continues with the way to increase schoolwide support is by infusing it with a dose Tier 2 critical elements.
Authors: Billie Jo Rodriquez and Noah Van Horn
Publication Date: April 2024
Publisher: PBISApps
High School Acknowledgement Systems
This practice brief focuses on effective ways to build an acknowledgement system of positive behavior that works in high school. It starts by suggesting why considering a formal acknowledgment system is appropriate in high school, and then reviews examples of strategies that have been demonstrated to be effective.
Authors: K Brigid Flannery, Robert Horner, Patricia Hershfeldt, Stephanie Martinez, and Tamika La
Salle
Publication Date: August 2020
Publisher: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
High School Implementation: Supporting College and Career Readiness Through PBIS
This webinar reviews the rationale for and the critical features of PBIS at the high school level and shares suggestions for improving training, coaching, and technical assistance for high schools. Strategies are discussed for integrating academic and behavior supports to ensure that the knowledge, skills, and habits students need to be successful after high school are consistently taught and reinforced across all school settings.
Authors: Allison Lombardi, Laura Kern and Jennifer Freeman
Publication Date: June 2021
Publisher: Center on PBIS
How School Teams Use Data to Make Effective Decisions: Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS)
This practice guide describes a scientifically-based approach for data-based decision-making called Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) that includes guidance for school-based teams on the foundations needed to run more effective meetings, a process for using data to identify school needs and goals for change as well as for planning practical and effective solutions, and a process for using, monitoring, and adapting solutions.
Authors: Erin Chaparro, Rob Horner, Bob Algozzine, Jessica Daily, and Rhonda Nese
Publication Date: April 2022
Publisher: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Positive Behavior Strategies: A Guide for Teachers
This article describes positive behavior strategies that encourage teachers to see behavior as a form of communication. Every behavior sends a message about what a student needs. Some messages are easy to read. Some need more deciphering. Instead of reacting to challenging behaviors, teachers can proactively reduce them. Using positive behavior strategies can help teachers understand the message behind the behavior to better support students.
Author: Amanda Morin
Publisher: Understood
Strategies for De-escalating Student Behavior in the Classroom
This practice brief provides practical, research-based strategies educators can use to de-escalate challenging student behavior in the classroom. With some advance planning, educators can reduce reliance on reactive strategies, such as punitive or exclusionary practices in favor of safer, more instructive approaches.
Authors: M Kathleen Strickland-Cohen, Alexandra Newson, Katherine Meyer, Robert Putnam, Laura
Kern, Brian Meyer, and Ami Flammini
Publication Date: September 2022
Publisher: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Students Experiencing Bullying
This information sheet is designed to help teachers respond to students who bully others, students who are bullied, and students who are bystanders. It identifies characteristics of in-person bullying on school grounds, cyberbullying, and what teachers can do to facilitate positive relationships.
Publication Date: October 2021
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Student Engagement: Why It’s Important and How To Promote It
Student engagement makes teaching itself more fun, engaging, and rewarding, and it has been shown to have critical impacts on students. This article discusses what student engagement is, why it’s important, and factors that contribute to student engagement.
Author: Essie Sutton
Publication Date: Updated July 2025
Publisher: Branching Minds
Students Experiencing Stress
This information sheet is designed to help teachers play an important role in assisting students who are expressing stress by providing emotional support, promoting positive peer relationships, and connecting students with other professionals in the school who may be helpful resources. It identifies how students may express stress in school and what teachers can do.
Publication Date: October 2021
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Students Exposed to Trauma
Trauma exposure is common for students. This information sheet explains what trauma is, how it might be expressed by students in school, what teachers can do, and when students require additional support to guide them to professionals who can be of assistance.
Publication Date: October 2021
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Teaching Responsibility With Problem-Solving Conferences
Teachers can help students learn to take responsibility for their missteps and demonstrate socially responsible behaviors through the use of problem-solving conferences. This article offers specific steps that help students take responsibility for their behavior.
Publication Date: March 2024
Publisher: Responsive Classroom
The Psychological Impact of Behavior on Student Learning at High School and University Levels
This research analysis delves into the intricate relationship between behavior and student learning in high school and college environments, focusing on the psychological impacts that various behaviors exert on academic performance, motivation, and mental health. The study presents a comprehensive examination of both positive and negative behaviors, illustrating how they can significantly influence students' educational experiences and outcomes.
Author: Joseph Ozigis Akomodi
Publication Date: June 2025
Publisher: ResearchGate
Using Office Discipline Referrals as a Behavioral Screener: Considerations From NCII and the Center on PBIS
Recommendations are given for using office discipline referral data as part of a gated screening process within clear schoolwide behavioral expectations, consistent and operationalized definitions for behavioral infractions, and systematic procedures for collecting and analyzing discipline data.
Publication Date: October 2020
Publisher: National Center on Intensive Intervention and The Center on Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports
What Is PBIS?
This webpage explains Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based, tiered framework for supporting students’ behavioral, academic, social, emotional, and mental health. When implemented with fidelity, PBIS improves social emotional competence, academic success, and school climate. Links to additional information offer tools, publications, presentations, and videos.
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon
Why Prioritize Behavior Support?
This brief describes why it is critical to continue to prioritize behavior support in addition to academic, social, and emotional supports. With effective behavior support implemented within a PBIS framework, rigorous research has demonstrated that students and educators experience positive outcomes.
Publication Date: March 2021
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon