Responsibility-Centered Discipline (RCD) has helped educators across North America transform student discipline and improve school climate over the past decade. Not only have RCD schools seen significant decreases in office referrals, detentions and suspensions, they have also moved away from an obedience-based classroom discipline model to a model that is centered on students taking responsibility for their own behavior as well as their own academic success.

As schools drive toward improving academic results, educators have become far more purposeful in enhancing curriculum, refining assessment and enriching instruction. But without improving classroom management and discipline in education, all of these other efforts will ultimately fall short of expectations.

Educators understand that behavior and effort are often impacted by the relationships they have built with students. When emotions escalate, those relationships are tested — and often damaged. Responsibility-Centered Discipline helps educators to be prepared when situations come to a boil. By empowering educators to effectively manage challenging behaviors in the classroom — or “challenging moments” — RCD schools typically see a significant improvement not only in behavior management, but also in student and teacher satisfaction, school climate and academic achievement.