Transform Your Classroom and Transform Your School

TCM provides pre-service teachers the principles and practices to conceive and produce excellence. It outlines the hows and whys novice teachers need to know to hit the ground running, as well as supporting their understanding of what it means to create the high functioning classroom and their students social and emotional well-being defined by a psychology of success. TCM is a complete treatment of classroom management and discipline so it works as a stand-alone and complete course or professional development resources.

TCM provides new teachers the confidence of having the go-to resource they need to begin their growth as a teacher with high functioning principles and practical strategies to be effective right away. TCM helps new teachers keep their eyes on a vision of the excellent classroom and provides concrete and practical explanations for how to actualize that vision. As a result, they are able to achieve high function very early and without suppressing their humanity or joy (so they do not have to, as the saying goes, wait until the end of the first term to smile).

TCM provides teachers of any experience level ideas to move to the next level of performance. It also helps the experienced teacher better classify their current strategies and habits into things they will want to 1) do more of, 2) modify, or 3) cease doing. The TCM teacher style matrix is helpful for any teacher to self-assess their basic intentions and how they might reconceive their goals as a classroom manager. And many of the chapters provide step by step strategies that no other resource provides including Chapter 15 that gives teachers a systematic plan for creating the student-centered, community classroom.

TCM outlines the practices and principles for how to create classrooms that support the overall schools movement to the next level. Combined with the ASSC pathway, TCM lays out a roadmap to a clearer understanding of what good looks like. The fact is that many popular classroom strategies at best contribute to mediocre functioning, and can actually contribute to school-wide dysfunction. TCM promotes only healthy long-term success psychology promoting practices. For schools that are already good, TCM outlines how to move from the common practices that define schools that are stuck at adequate and help them move to excellent. When TCM practices were used in schools consistently, the achievement in those schools represented over a 90tile level of academic performance and level of school climate.