What is Win-Win Discipline?
Kagan Professional Development has been providing courses in Win-Win Discipline for several years now. We’ve been receiving more questions about the course and the forthcoming book, Win-Win Discipline: Solutions for All Discipline Problems. This article gives a brief overview of some of the key concepts in Win-Win Discipline and how the approach aligns with the Kagan philosophy of education. Win-Win Discipline is an effective approach to classroom discipline. It is designed to handle discipline problems at the moment of the disruption with powerful and proven discipline strategies; but more importantly, it targets the root of discipline problems students’ unfulfilled needs. Let me clarify: Students have basic needs. We all do! There are three probable ways these basic needs play out in the classroom: 1) students’ needs are being met and they are not posing a discipline problem; 2) students’ needs are not being met, but they are handling their needs in a mature and responsible way; or 3
