Discipline referrals at CASHS have gone down 40% since CASD began a pilot program for students with behavior issues.

Research from BYU professor Paul Caldarella found that when teachers praise students more often than correcting them behavior improves dramatically. Students speaking out of turn, texting, telling ...

Further, teachers often expect that by middle school, kids are old enough to behave without being coddled. As a result, positive reinforcement techniques widely used in elementary school are often ...