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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – December 2002

Volume 2 Number 12

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1. Welcome
  2. Promoting Responsibility
  3. Increasing Effectiveness
  4. Improving Relationships
  5. Your Questions Answered
  6. Implementing The Raise Responsibility System
  7. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING
  8. What Nancy K. Utterback, Ph. D., Professor, Character Education, Walsh University, OH, says about the Book:
      “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS”

1. WELCOME


In this season of gratitude and giving, I would like to share two of the many joys I have recently received. They are parts of more lengthy e-mails. (Warning: the first may be odoriferous) On the second day of the new system, a miracle happened. The student who had driven me crazy all year chose to take a time out for reflection at his desk (instead of outside in the hall) … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – November 2002

Volume 2 Number 11 

 IN THIS ISSUE:

  1. Welcome
  2. Promoting Responsibility
  3. Increasing Effectiveness
  4. Improving Relationships
  5. Implementing the RAISE RESPONSIBILITY SYSTEM
  6. Your Questions Answered
  7. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING
    GIVEN NAMES – When NOT to Use Them and when TO Use Them
  8. Discipline Chat Room for Teachers
  9. What Jim Cathcart, author of “The Acorn Principle: Know
    Yourself—Grow Yourself” says about the Book:
     “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS”

1. WELCOME


In our shrinking world of globalization and problems associated with different languages, the European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications–rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – October 2002

Volume 2 Number 10

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1.  Welcome
  2.  Promoting Responsibility
  3.  Increasing Effectiveness
  4.  Improving Relationships
  5.  Implementing the RAISE RESPONSIBILITY SYSTEM
  6.  Your Questions Answered
  7.  Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING
  8. GIVEN NAMES – When NOT to Use Them and when TO Use Them
  9.  Discipline Chat Room for Teachers
  10.  What Robert Danzig, former President of Hearst Newspapers,
        says about the Book:
     “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS”

1. WELCOME


Someone invariably comments to me after a presentation that my message also should be brought to the business arena.

I have finally decided to take that advice. On September 30, I conducted a workshop on “Communications in the Workplace” to the publishing house of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. The round of applause concluding the interactive training was appreciated. But more … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – September 2002

Volume 2 Number 9 

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

 2. Promoting Responsibility

 3. Increasing Effectiveness

 4. Improving Relationships

 5. Your Questions Answered

 6. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING

    The Power of Hierarchies – What They Are and What They Do

 7. The Shortcomings of Punishments and Rewards – Tips for Parents

 8. What Gordon Cawelti, Educational Research Service, and

    former Executive Director, Association for Supervision and

    Curriculum Development (ASCD), says about the Book:

    “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS”s


1. WELCOME


The U.S.A. has long been privileged to have

peace as our normal

state of affairs.

This month marks the first anniversary of the attack on our

continental homeland–striking at the symbol of capitalism and

commerce (World Trade Centers) and the symbol … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – August 2002

Volume 2 Number 8

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

 2. Promoting Responsibility

 3. Increasing Effectiveness

 4. Improving Relationships

 5. New Chatboard

 6. Your Questions Answered

 7. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING

    Use the Language You Want Learned –

“Responsibilities” rather

    than “Rules”

 8. The Shortcomings of Punishments and Rewards – Tips for Parents

 9. What Dr. Elaine Haglund, Cal State

University, Long Beach, Says

    about the Book:

   “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS”


1. WELCOME


In the last few weeks, several people have

contacted me requesting permission to duplicate the “RAISE RESPONSIBILITY

SYSTEM.” They–the professor, principal, and staff development

specialists–wanted to reproduce materials from the book and desired permission

to do so.

The system uses the approaches of Stephen Covey

(Be Proactive), … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – July 2002

Volume 2 Number 7 

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

 2. Promoting Responsibility

 3. Increasing Effectiveness

 4. Improving Relationships

 5. Your Questions Answered

 6. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING:

Reflections from last year–working with teachers and schools

from Los Angeles to New York City

 7. The Shortcomings of Punishments and Rewards

– Tips for Parents

 8. What Others Are Saying about the Book:

“DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS

How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”


1. WELCOME


My wife and I have lived in

the same house since 1968. We have seen children grow, move, become married, and

visit their parents now with their own children. We have also welcomed new

neighbors and seen a new generation of children grow.

Yet, … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – June 2002

Volume 2 Number 6  

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

  2. Promoting Responsibility

  3. Increasing Effectiveness

  4. Improving Relationships

  5. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING:

     HOW THE HORSE WHISPERER TRAINS A WILD MUSTANG IN 30 MINUTES

     A Lesson for Teachers, Parents, and Those Who Lead

  6. The Failings of Punishments and Rewards – Tips for Parents

  7. Your Questions Answered

  8. What Others Are Saying about the Book:

“DISCIPLINE
WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS

How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”


1. WELCOME


Although I travel to
New York regularly working with schools in Harlem and Upper
Manhattan, it is rare that I do any sightseeing. However, I did have
the opportunity last month after BookExpo America, which was held at
the … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – May 2002

Volume 2 Number 5

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

 2. Promoting Responsibility

 3. Increasing Effectiveness

 4. Improving Relationships

 5. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING:

    Using Breath Management to

Promote Learning

    and Saving and

Improving Your Voice

 6. The Failings of Punishments and Rewards – Tips

for Parents

 7. Your Questions Answered

 8. What Others Are Saying About The Book
“DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS
How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”


1. WELCOME


My website at

http://www.MarvinMarshall.comhas been on the

Internet since 1995. Time has come for an upgrade.

You will find

articles easier to locate and download.

ONE SET OF ARTICLES

pertains to PROMOTING RESPONSIBILITY. These articles

explain my approach and give suggestions for

empowerment –rather than overpowerment. Simply… >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – April 2002

Volume 2 Number 4 

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

 2. Promoting Responsibility

 3. Increasing Effectiveness

 4. Improving Relationships

 5. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING:

    REDUCING STRESS BY PROMOTING RESPONSIBILITY

    –Rather than by Attempting to Manipulate Behavior

 6. Your Questions Answered

 7. What others are saying about the book:

“DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS,

PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS

How

Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”


1. WELCOME


This month’s

e-zine starts by discussing a person who has

had a tremendous influence in the lives of

many people–especially those in the field

of education. I am referring to the famed

Harvard University psychologist who became

popular with his practice of behaviorism,

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990). (Also,

read this month’s book testimonial, Number

7, by a former … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – March 2002

Volume 2 Number 3

The newsletter comes a few days early this month because of my travel schedule. I will be tied up all of next week working with schools in Harlem and upper Manhattan as part of my contract with the New York City Board of Education, then present in San Francisco for the California League of Middle Schools, then to San Antonio to present at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, then back to California where I share my views at the state Character Education Conference in Sacramento, and then back to Southern California where I present two public seminars–one in Burbank and the other in Ontario.(See #8 below for the Burbank and Ontario presentations.)  

Hi, Ev!… >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – February 2002

Volume 2 Number 2 

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

 2. Promoting Responsibility

 3. Increasing Effectiveness

 4. Improving Relationships

 5. Teachers.net: PROMOTING LEARNING:

How to Achieve 100 percent Student Participation.

 6. Your Questions Answered

 7. ABOUTDISCIPLINE.COM

 8. Public Seminars

 9. What Others Are Saying About The Book
 “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS
 How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”


1. WELCOME


My passion is to foster

responsibility. In my seminars and in my book, I refer to victimhood thinking

and how to teach young people to be VICTORS–rather than victims. With this in

mind, let me share a recent e-mail I received from my sister-in-law, Bobbie

Marshall.

Let’s see if I understand how America works lately.

If a woman … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – January 2002

Volume 2 Number 1 

 IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

 2. Promoting Responsibility

 3. Increasing Effectiveness

 4. Improving Relationships

 5. Teachers.Net: Promoting Learning:

Exercise

Combining Positivity, Choice, and Reflection

 6. Your Questions Answered

 7. Public Seminars

 8. What Others Are Saying About The Book
 “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS
 How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”


1. WELCOME


My travels regularly take me

to New York where I am working with four schools in upper Manhattan and Harlem.

At a recent meeting of representatives from the schools, a very interesting

comment was made. A representative said that her school did not have major

discipline problems. The concern of the school had to do with the social skills

and responsibility … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – December 2001

Volume 1 Number 5

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. Welcome

 2. Promoting Responsibility

 3. Increasing Effectiveness

 4. Improving Relationships

 5. Your Questions Answered

 6. TEACHERS.NET

 7. Public Seminars

 8. What Others Are Saying About The Book
“DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS
How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”


1. WELCOME


As the

year draws to a close (already!), it seems fitting to

conclude this “decade of the brain” — or was that the

last decade? — with some thoughts that promote

learning.

Marian

Diamond is an internationally known neuroscientist who

has studied mammalian brains for decades. Dr. Diamond is

the author of “Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture

Your Child’s Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy

Emotions from Birth … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – November 2001

Volume 1 Number 4

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1. Welcome
  2. Promoting Responsibility
  3. Increasing Effectiveness
  4. Improving Relationships
  5. Your Questions Answered:
  6. Chat Room / Bulletin Board
  7. Public Seminars
  8. What Others Are Saying About The Book
    “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS
    How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”

1. WELCOME


This issue of PROMOTING RESPONSIBILITY is dedicated to my dear friend, Ivan Smith, who taught Spanish and English for well over four decades with the Los Angeles Unified School District. Ivan left us on Sunday night, November 4.

During his long and successful career as a middle, high, and adult school teacher, Ivan influenced thousands of youths and adults in ways that consistently brought him accolades from his students. He encouraged those under … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – October 2001

Volume 1 Number 3  

This week’s edition is arriving a few days earlier than the usually scheduled second Friday of each month. The reason is that I will be in Kuala Lumpur as guest of the Minister of Education presenting a three-day staff development program to educators in Malaysia.

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1. Welcome
  2. Promoting Responsibility
  3. Increasing Effectiveness
  4. Improving Relationships
  5. Your Questions Answered
  6. Your Reaction, Please
  7. Public Seminars
  8. What Others Are Saying About The Book
    “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS
    How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning”

1. WELCOME


Welcome to another academic year of test madness where children are losing their childhood and where youngsters as young as third graders are demonstrating anxiety in increasing numbers.

Business, government, … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – September 2001

Volume 1 Number 2

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1. Welcome
  2. Promoting Responsibility
  3. Increasing Effectiveness
  4. Improving Relationships
  5. Your Questions Answered
  6. Public Seminars
  7. What others are saying about the book:
    “DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS or REWARDS 
    How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning” 

1. WELCOME


Welcome to a new school year. How fortunate educators are to be in a profession where renewal is fostered each year!

Classroom teachers in particular are in a rare position to personally grow by what is learned about and from their new students. In addition, one of the joys of the profession is to be given afresh the opportunities to expand the horizons of lives and enlighten and empower others.

May this academic year be most successful for … >>>

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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – August 2001

Volume 1 Number 1 

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1.  Welcome
    TIME Magazine, August 6, 2001 cover article:
    “DO KIDS HAVE TOO MUCH POWER? Yes, say many parents. And now they’re moving to regain control.”
  2. Promoting Responsibility
  3. Increasing Effectiveness
  4. Improving Relationships
  5. Tips For Parents
  6. From The Book
    DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS, PUNISHMENTS, or REWARDS
     How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning
  7. Your Questions Answered
  8. Public Seminars
  9. What Others Are Saying About the Book:
  10. About this Newsletter

1. WELCOME


Dear Colleague:

Welcome to PROMOTING RESPONSIBILITY a monthly newsletter devoted to raising responsibility (for people of all ages), improving people’s effectiveness, and improving relationships.

A recent headlined story gives an indication as to the timeliness of this first issue. The cover of TIME Magazine, August >>>

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