Working with Our 4-D Students: Defiant, Difficult, Disrespectful & Disruptive

Working with Our 4-D Students is the book that teachers, administrators and school leaders have been waiting for. In this day and age of disproportionately disciplining students, low student achievement and a growing number of underperforming schools, educators are looking for ways to make a difference. This book will help our educators do just that, find a way to not just make a difference but continuously be the difference in our children lives.Over the past two decades, we have spent countless hours and dollars on the improvement on schools. School districts across the country has researched various curriculum, professional development and bringing in outside consultants. However, year after year, the data on our failing, low-performing and under performing school have changed very little. In fact, very little research has been done on the correlation between failing and or low-performing schools and disproportionately disciplining and the suspension of our so-called problem students. As educated people, we do not need data to tell us, "if students aren't in school, they can't learn!"Working with Our 4-D Students will provide our teachers with the necessary tools they need to support every student. Focusing on the daily practice that will help keep our students engaged in class, out of in school suspension, and greatly reduce out of school suspensions. Working with Our 4-D Students will establish how our daily practices in the following areas, our beliefs, our attitudes, the relationship we build with our students, the culture that we create, and the environment that we place our students in, will do far more to support student's success than any punitive consequence that we have handed out.