Beyond Discipline

In this 10th anniversary edition of an ASCD best seller, author Alfie Kohn reflects on his innovative ideas about replacing traditional discipline programs, in which things are done to students to control how they act, with a collaborative approach, in which we work with students to create caring communities. Features a new afterword by the author. When students are "off task," our first response should be to ask, "What's the task?" What is most remarkable about the assortment of discipline programs on the market today is the number of fundamental assumptions they seem to share. Some may…