How much would achievement rise if students were on task ten more hours a week? In one day on your campus, Mary gives your teachers a complete Time To Teach® classroom management system they can use starting the very next class period.
If your building feels any of these, this training was built for you.
Educators are losing precious instruction time to pesky low-level discipline. Academics and discipline are not separate problems: they're the same one. A teacher can be the best content instructor on campus, but without classroom control, the best lessons stay undelivered.
If you want to lift student achievement, you must first put a system in place for discipline that empowers your teachers to improve student behavior. We provide that system: training your teachers will use immediately.
This training helps your staff reclaim lost teaching time with proven strategies that minimize or eliminate 70 to 90% of low-level, chronic behaviors. Less stress, more impact, more job satisfaction. Teachers who feel effective stay effective.
Classroom management was rated as the most important variable to building and sustaining a high-achieving classroom. Classroom management, or the lack of it, is also the number one reason educators leave the profession. The fix is teachable.
"Teachers' actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on student achievement as school policies regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality, and community involvement."
Each strategy is taught, modeled, and practiced, so teachers leave with a playbook they can use the next day.
Prevention is the most powerful classroom management strategy in the toolkit. When teachers learn to stay calm and read the room and see disruption before it lands, so they can defuse up to 90% of low-level problems before they ever interrupt instruction. This is where the day begins, because everything else depends on it.
The first month, first week, and first day of school are the most critical for classroom management. Successful teachers don't post rules and hope. They teach and practice routines exactly the way they teach reading or math, through clear lesson plans, modeling, and repeated practice until the procedures become automatic.
Timing is everything when responding to a challenge. Through proven techniques (including the diffuser system, contingent withdrawal of attention, and supportive stance) teachers learn to defuse confrontations in five seconds or less. And they never give multiple warnings or repeated requests again.
The physical design of a classroom has a profound impact on student learning and behavior. From traditional to unorthodox arrangements, teachers learn how the room itself becomes part of the management system, supporting curriculum, encouraging engagement, and quietly making discipline a non-issue.
Classroom design matters. But relationships matter more. When students feel seen, known, and valued, they engage with both the teacher and the subject matter. Decades of research confirm this is the single strongest predictor of student success, and it's a craft that can be taught, practiced, and built into the rhythm of every class period.
Format is flexible: half-day or full-day, in person on your campus, scheduled around your calendar.
After one day, every teacher in your building leaves with the same playbook, ready for the very next class period.
Mary teaches Time To Teach, the classroom management system from the Center for Teacher Effectiveness. These comments come from teachers trained in it.
All the concepts and ideas presented were logical, practical, and had the best interest of all the students in mind. I really enjoyed my day and have a new outlook on classroom management. I recommend this seminar to anyone who works with children!
I was going to retire this year, tired of all the nonsense and students who don't pay attention. This seminar has given me some great ideas to put into my classroom, I think I will be around a few more years. Thank you!
When a student challenges you in front of the class, you have about five seconds to respond. The Teacher's Diffuser Library is the cheat sheet for those five seconds: more than 50 proven phrases that end a confrontation before it begins. It's free.
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Mary delivers Time To Teach on site for K-12 schools and districts, scheduled around your calendar, with optional graduate credit through UMass Global.
