Video Resources
Five Criteria for Positive Discipline — Dr. Jane Nelsen
This video explains the foundation of Positive Discipline, including how discipline can be both kind and firm while helping children develop responsibility, respect, and problem-solving skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-e4H2rsEww
Positive Discipline in the Classroom Part 1 — Positive Discipline
This video introduces Positive Discipline strategies for the classroom, including respectful teacher-student relationships, classroom meetings, and building student responsibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvAURynYOLU
Positive Discipline in the Classroom Part 2 — Positive Discipline
This follow-up video continues the classroom focus with additional examples of how Positive Discipline can support student behavior, classroom community, and problem-solving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPQsfq5xrB8
How to Get Control of the Classroom — Positive Discipline
This video gives teachers an overview of Positive Discipline in the Classroom and explains how connection, structure, and respectful leadership can help reduce behavior problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw5GBYjH_v8
How to Discipline a Child — Dr. Jane Nelsen
This video explains how adults can move away from punishment and instead teach children through encouragement, problem-solving, and respectful follow-through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ATYLnzoe4
Research-Backed Strategies for Better Classroom Management — Edutopia
This video explains common classroom management mistakes and offers positive, research-based alternatives that help teachers respond to student behavior more effectively.
https://www.edutopia.org/video/research-backed-strategies-better-classroom-management
Positive Behavior Supports for Early Childhood Classrooms — Early Childhood Resource
This video explains positive behavior supports for young children, including classroom structure, praise, prevention, and strategies for responding to challenging behavior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CZmwPO9XlY
What is PBIS? 5 Minute Description and 4 Main Components — PBIS Overview
This short video explains the basic parts of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, including expectations, teaching behavior, reinforcement, and consistent schoolwide systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_KDFb_SSc0
Positive Discipline at School — Positive Discipline Resource
This video focuses on how Positive Discipline can be used in school settings to support student behavior through respect, consistency, and teaching rather than punishment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0tfISLesOQ
How to Change Student Behavior Using Positive Reinforcement — Positive Classroom Management
This video explains how teachers can use positive reinforcement to encourage better student behavior and build a more supportive classroom environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4APmbRKx8Q
Articles & Documents
What Is Positive Discipline? — Positive Discipline
This article explains the basic philosophy of Positive Discipline, including connection, mutual respect, long-term teaching, life skills, and helping children feel capable.
https://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/what-positive-discipline/
About Positive Discipline — Positive Discipline
This overview explains the history and foundation of Positive Discipline, including the ideas of kindness and firmness, belonging and significance, encouragement, and teaching life skills instead of relying on punishment.
https://www.positivediscipline.com/about-positive-discipline/
Kind and Firm for Teachers — Positive Discipline
This article is especially useful for educators because it explains how teachers can be warm and respectful while still holding students accountable with clear expectations.
https://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/kind-and-firm-teachers/
What Does a Positive Discipline Class Meeting Look Like? — Positive Discipline
This article explains how classroom meetings can help students practice listening, problem-solving, respect, cooperation, accountability, and solution-focused thinking.
https://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/what-does-positive-discipline-class-meeting-look/
Mutual Respect in the Classroom — Positive Discipline
This article focuses on building respectful teacher-student relationships and shows how mutual respect can reduce power struggles and support better classroom behavior.
https://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/mutual-respect-classroom/
Contribution in the Classroom — Positive Discipline
This article explains how giving students meaningful opportunities to contribute can increase belonging, responsibility, cooperation, and positive classroom behavior.
https://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/contribution-classroom/
How Is Positive Discipline Different? — Positive Discipline
This article explains how Positive Discipline differs from punishment-and-reward systems by focusing on encouragement, belonging, mistaken beliefs, and teaching students better ways to meet their needs.
https://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/how-positive-discipline-different/
Classroom PBIS — Center on PBIS
This resource gives teachers practical guidance for using positive behavior supports in the classroom, including prevention, teaching expectations, acknowledgment, and responding to student needs.
https://www.pbis.org/classroom-pbis
Classroom Management — Edutopia
This resource page includes articles and videos about building positive classroom communities, responding to disruptive behavior, creating routines, and supporting student engagement.
https://www.edutopia.org/topic/classroom-management
Classroom-Level Positive Behavior Supports in Schools Implementing SW-PBIS — Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions
This research article looks at classroom-level positive behavior supports in schools using PBIS and highlights the importance of positive rules, specific praise, and positive teacher-student interactions.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1098300712459079
Positive Behavior Support in the Classroom: Facilitating Behaviorally Inclusive Learning Environments — ResearchGate
This research-based document explains how positive behavior support can help create more inclusive classrooms and reduce problem behaviors through effective instruction and supportive classroom environments.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26459230_Positive_Behavior_Support_in_the_Classroom_Facilitating_Behaviorally_Inclusive_Learning_Environments