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Please note, I have gathered my ideas from many different teachers, websites, and workshops.  I do not claim that these are all my original ideas.  I have included a list of my favorite, most helpful websites on the page for each subject area.  Please enjoy!

Classroom Management and Discipline System Behavior Tracking: I use a "clip moving" system, where students must move a clip (clothespin with their name or number written on it) from one thing to the next when they are spoken to for poor behavior.  I have modeled my clip moving system after a stoplight one year, a baseball diamond another year, and a diamond divided into quadrants another year.  I have seen another teacher who used a weather system.  The systems all work the same.  Click below for photos of each system and the behavior sheets that correlate. Stoplight System:    Class Poster     Behavior Sheet Baseball System:  Class Poster     Behavior Sheet Weather System:    Class Poster      Behavior Sheet Diamond with Quadrants System:    Class Poster      Behavior Sheet Behavior Reporting and Record Keeping: I send home a daily behavior sheet, which reports the students' behavior and the reason for any poor behavior reports.  Parents must sign the sheets nightly.  Students get a class token for each day the behavior reporting sheet comes back with a parent signature.  See above for examples of behavior sheet. Positive Reinforcement: In my class, I have used several things for a class token.  I used sticks (wooden popsicle sticks), Decision Dollars (Idea came from another teacher's website - click for $1, $5, $10 templates), and carnival tickets.  They all work the same way, it is typically just a matter of preference.  Students can earn the tokens with good behavior, completing work in a timely maner, getting behavior reporting sheets signed, reading their nightly take-home book well, or earning 100 on graded assignments. Whole Class Positive Reinforcement: I use a marble jar to earn a whole class reward.  When students do something well as a whole group, we take a designated number of marbles from the "Empty Me" jar and place them into the "Fill Me" jar.  When all of the marbles have moved from one jar to the other, the whole class earns a reward (10 minutes of extra recess, a popcorn party, 10 minutes of favorite game, etc).  I have seen other variations on this method, one using measuring cups and popcorn kernals instead.  Students get 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 cup of popcorn kernals added to the "Fill Me" jar for positive behavior.  Once the jar is full, the popcorn kernals collected are popped for the class to see and then eaten at a celebration.