Practical Solutions, Positive Results

From schoolwide positive behavior to classroom management and the creation of individual student interventions, Safe & Civil Schools partners with you to improve your practice.

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Every student deserves a safe and civil school.

Positive climate,

successful students

The positive climate of a school sets the foundation for learning and creativity. The best schools are places where students are safe and feel supported and encouraged. As educators, we are all responsible for fostering a positive climate—creating a place where students want to be, want to learn, and can thrive.


While student misbehavior can disrupt the positive climate and create a major barriers to learning, school staff have significant power to shape students’ behavior and motivation. Every adult in the school plays a role in creating the best environment for student learning. Safe & Civil Schools can help guide your staff so everyone can be a positive influence that your students will remember for the rest of their lives.


Safe & Civil Schools can engage every adult in your school or district and help them build the skills they need to help each student meet their fullest potential.

Every student deserves a safe and civil school.

Positive climate,

successful students

The positive climate of a school sets the foundation for learning and creativity. The best schools are places where students are safe and feel supported and encouraged. As educators, we are all responsible for fostering a positive climate—creating a place where students want to be, want to learn, and can thrive.


While student misbehavior can disrupt the positive climate and create major barriers to learning, school staff have significant power to shape students’ behavior and motivation. Every adult in the school plays a role in creating the best environment for student learning. Safe & Civil Schools can help guide your staff so everyone can be a positive influence that your students will remember for the rest of their lives.


Safe & Civil Schools can engage every adult in your school or district and help them build the skills they need to help each student meet their fullest potential.

We can help you make a difference.

Empower Your Staff

Staff development with Safe & Civil Schools will empower staff to develop consistent procedures with visible, positive outcomes. Our consultants guide staff through a process of data-driven continuous improvement and problem solving, applying the STOIC framework:


  • Structure for success
  • Teach expectations
  • Observe (and adult supervision)
  • Interact positively (spend more time with appropriate behavior)
  • Correct calmly, fluently, and efficiently to improve school, classroom, and individual student behavior


At Safe & Civil Schools, we equip educators with the skills needed to evaluate the efficacy of processes and procedures and ensure necessary improvements. Teachers become active champions in improving student behavior and academic outcomes.

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We can help you make a difference.

Empower Your Staff

Staff development with Safe & Civil Schools will empower staff to develop consistent procedures with visible, positive outcomes. Our consultants guide staff through a process of data-driven continuous improvement and problem solving, applying the STOIC framework:


  • Structure for success
  • Teach expectations
  • Observe (and adult supervision)
  • Interact positively (spend more time with appropriate behavior)
  • Correct calmly, fluently, and efficiently to improve school, classroom, and individual student behavior


At Safe & Civil Schools, we equip educators with the skills needed to evaluate the efficacy of processes and procedures and ensure necessary improvements. Teachers become active champions in improving student behavior and academic outcomes.

MTSS for Behavior

Comprehensive Approach

Safe & Civil Schools provides a comprehensive approach to building a MTSS system for behavior within your school system. This begins with creating strong universal supports at the schoolwide and classroom levels to create a positive climate for learning. An integrated multi-tiered approach for behavior includes developing the systems, structures, and interventions necessary to support individual students as needed.

MTSS for Behavior

Comprehensive Approach

Safe & Civil Schools provides a comprehensive approach to building a MTSS system for behavior within your school system. This begins with creating strong universal supports at the schoolwide and classroom level to create a positive climate for learning. An integrated multi-tiered approach for behavior includes developing the systems, structures, and interventions necessary to support individual students as needed.

MTSS for Behavior

Comprehensive Approach

Safe & Civil Schools provides a comprehensive approach to building a MTSS system for behavior within your school system. This begins with creating strong universal supports at the schoolwide and classroom level to create a positive climate for learning. An integrated multi-tiered approach for behavior includes developing the systems, structures, and interventions necessary to support individual students as needed.

Research-based programs have proven effective regardless of demographic variables.

Areas of Expertise

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Schoolwide

School leadership teams create a strong, unified climate and culture that are the foundation of learning and every student’s success.

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Classroom

Teachers design effective classroom management practices to meet the diverse needs of all their students.

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Individual

Interventionists support students with individual behavior needs so they can reach their fullest potential.

We don’t want children to simply endure school—we want them to thrive.

Why Choose Safe & Civil Schools?

Experience

Our consultants have extensive real-world school experience and have developed and implemented initiatives across the nation.

Flexibility

No two schools, classrooms, or students are identical. We provide you with the tools you need to adapt to the unique and ever-changing dynamics.

Sustainability

All Safe & Civil Schools work is grounded in data-driven decision-making.  We will help you develop staff-supported initiatives with an emphasis on creating ongoing improvement cycles.

Empowering educators with practical tools honed with real-world results.

Visible Success

We empower educators to remove academic and behavioral barriers to learning so every student can enjoy a high-quality educational environment. Our data is quantified by such measures as:

→ Reductions in referrals,

     suspensions, and expulsions

→ Improved student and staff     

    connectedness

→ Increases in student attendance

→ Declines in tardy rates

→ Increased student and staff 

    perception of safety and civility


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Providing research-based tools to support educators and enhance student outcomes.

About Ancora Publishing

Ancora Publishing has published resources in the Safe & Civil Schools Library since 2005. All of the trusted Safe & Civil Schools materials, including CHAMPS, Teacher’s Encyclopedia, and many more, can be found on the Ancora Publishing website.

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Our Success Stories

"Foundations is the kind of framework administrators, teachers, and students can use to establish and maintain a school environment where people want to work and learn. Schools focus on learning to problem solve, use information and data, and create a safe and civil environment."

"I have never seen anything that makes such a change in a school in a shorter period of time. It is like ‘taking back your halls.’ I have to believe that it will impact test scores as hall incidents, noise, tardiness, etc. are all but eliminated. START on Time! really works and has made a big difference in the start to our year."

"Our committee, along with the entire staff, continues to refine our policies to ensure a ‘safe, civil,’ and productive learning environment for all of our students. A schoolwide student survey shows: 90% of our students felt safe in school this year as compared with 68% last year; 79% of our students enjoyed school this year as compared with 70% last year; and 67% of our students felt the Guidelines for Success were helpful to them as opposed to 51% last year. We had an overall 86% reduction this year in student referrals. Overall, an average of 91% of our students were in class on time each period! Thank you for your continued support of our efforts to make our school a great place for students to learn!"

"Safe & Civil School's classroom training provides participants with a practical, hands-on approach to classroom management. I left the workshop with strategies that I could implement immediately in my learning environment. The information is easy to implement and provides extremely effective methods for structuring your environment so that misbehavior is less likely to occur, as well as strategies to use when it does."

"Whether you are a novice or an experienced educator, CHAMPS provides the tools, skills, and attitudes to create a more inviting and positive classroom/school climate. All of our participants express, 'CHAMPS is THE course on classroom management I wish had been offered in college.' CHAMPS has provided our teachers with profound, career-changing support in managing their classrooms well. It makes all the difference in the organization of their classrooms, physically as well as socially and emotionally."

"With its practical and proactive strategies for motivating reluctant students, preventing potential classroom disruptions, and managing challenging adolescent behavior, Discipline in the Secondary Classroom is an invaluable tool for both beginning and 'seasoned' high school teachers."

"Dr. Sprick has provided a practical 'how-to' guide with evidence-based strategies for helping staff effectively intervene with students who have challenging behaviors. He has again provided a timely and rich resource to guide us through the challenges of RTI for behavior that synthesizes current best practices with step-by-step procedures [that move] from prevention to [intensive] intervention."

"Interventions is an easy-to-use guide for planning and implementing behavior management with interventions based on the latest research and time-tested strategies; is organized logically; speaks in a relaxed and clear voice; and provides specific actions, tools, and reproducible forms for a teacher, school psychologist, counselor, or behavior specialist to use every day."

"A must-have resource for every educator, administrator, and support staff. Interventions is a step-by-step evidence-based blueprint that is practical—and easy to understand, use, and implement. Whether PBS or RTI, this manual has it all, a tiered system of interventions universally designed for all students."

"Safe & Civil School's classroom training provides participants with a practical, hands-on approach to classroom management. I left the workshop with strategies that I could implement immediately in my learning environment. The information is easy to implement and provides extremely effective methods for structuring your environment so that misbehavior is less likely to occur, as well as strategies to use when it does."

"Today’s schools are facing issues of safety at an unprecedented rate. If we are to ensure safety in our schools, we must address the attitudes, behaviors, and procedures that affect it. Dr. Randy Sprick’s Safe & Civil Schools Series is a comprehensive collection of materials designed to help improve the safety and civility of schools, thus enhancing student learning. The series proposes the beliefs that students should be treated with respect, taught the skills and behaviors they need to succeed, and encouraged through positive interactions."

"The quality and professionalism of all of the Safe & Civil Schools consultants is impressive. Their presentation styles, knowledge, and passion for their work are phenomenal."

Our Success Stories

"Foundations is the kind of framework administrators, teachers, and students can use to establish and maintain a school environment where people want to work and learn. Schools focus on learning to problem solve, use information and data, and create a safe and civil environment."

"I have never seen anything that makes such a change in a school in a shorter period of time. It is like ‘taking back your halls.’ I have to believe that it will impact test scores as hall incidents, noise, tardiness, etc. are all but eliminated. START on Time! really works and has made a big difference in the start to our year."

"Our committee, along with the entire staff, continues to refine our policies to ensure a ‘safe, civil,’ and productive learning environment for all of our students. A schoolwide student survey shows 90% of our students felt safe in school this year as compared with 68% last year; 79% of our students enjoyed school this year as compared with 70% last year; and 67% of our students felt the Guidelines for Success were helpful to them as opposed to 51% last year. We had an overall 86% reduction this year in student referrals. Overall, an average of 91% of our students were in class on time each period! Thank you for your continued support of our efforts to make our school a great place for students to learn!"

"Safe & Civil Schools classroom training provides participants with a practical, hands-on approach to classroom management. I left the workshop with strategies that I could implement immediately in my learning environment. The information is easy to implement and provides extremely effective methods for structuring your environment so that misbehavior is less likely to occur, as well as strategies to use when it does."

"Whether you are a novice or an experienced educator, CHAMPS provides the tools, skills, and attitudes to create a more inviting and positive classroom/school climate. All of our participants express, 'CHAMPS is THE course on classroom management I wish had been offered in college.' CHAMPS has provided our teachers with profound, career-changing support in managing their classrooms well. It makes all the difference in the organization of their classrooms, physically as well as socially and emotionally."

"With its practical and proactive strategies for motivating reluctant students, preventing potential classroom disruptions, and managing challenging adolescent behavior, Discipline in the Secondary Classroom is an invaluable tool for both beginning and 'seasoned' high school teachers."

"Dr. Sprick has provided a practical 'how-to' guide with evidence-based strategies for helping staff effectively intervene with students who have challenging behaviors. He has again provided a timely and rich resource to guide us through the challenges of RTI for behavior that synthesizes current best practices with step-by-step procedures [that move] from prevention to [intensive] intervention."

"Interventions is an easy-to-use guide for planning and implementing behavior management with interventions based on the latest research and time-tested strategies; is organized logically; speaks in a relaxed and clear voice; and provides specific actions, tools, and reproducible forms for a teacher, school psychologist, counselor, or behavior specialist to use every day."

"A must-have resource for every educator, administrator, and support staff. Interventions is a step-by-step evidence-based blueprint that is practical—and easy to understand, use, and implement. Whether PBS or RTI, this manual has it all, a tiered system of interventions universally designed for all students."

"Safe & Civil Schools classroom training provides participants with a practical, hands-on approach to classroom management. I left the workshop with strategies that I could implement immediately in my learning environment. The information is easy to implement and provides extremely effective methods for structuring your environment so that misbehavior is less likely to occur, as well as strategies to use when it does."

"Today’s schools are facing issues of safety at an unprecedented rate. If we are to ensure safety in our schools, we must address the attitudes, behaviors, and procedures that affect it. Dr. Randy Sprick’s Safe & Civil Schools Series is a comprehensive collection of materials designed to help improve the safety and civility of schools, thus enhancing student learning. The series proposes the beliefs that students should be treated with respect, taught the skills and behaviors they need to succeed, and encouraged through positive interactions."

"The quality and professionalism of all of the Safe & Civil Schools consultants is impressive. Their presentation styles, knowledge, and passion for their work are phenomenal."

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