School = Jail For Kids ?

Education
The process through which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives

Characteristics of a Quality School

School is free of ongoing discipline problems. Achievement is at least 75% on state tests. All students achieve competence; grades below competence are eliminated. Schooling is replaced by useful education All students do some quality work. Students and adults are knowledgeable re Choice Theory. School is a joyful place; everyone finds satisfaction in their work.

Conditions For Quality

Supportive environment of warm, caring relationships, free of coercion Learning that is meaningful, relevant and useful to students Self-evaluation for everyone

A Quality School is grounded in Reality Therapy and Choice Theory, both developed by William Glasser.

Reality Therapy
Counseling approach developed by psychiatrist William Glasser Helps people gain control over their lives by self-evaluating their behavior, then choosing behavior that meets their needs effectively and responsibly Adjectives describing feelings are changed to verb forms

Key Questions in Problemsolving Process

What do I want? What am I doing now? Is what Im doing helping or hurting me to get what I want? What behavior could I choose that would work better?

Choice Theory

5 genetically determined needs survival love and belonging power and respect freedom fun

4 Components of Behavior

Action Thinking Feeling Physiology

Lead Management: Whereas boss

management is characterized by coercion, adversarial relationships, control and evaluation by the boss, in Lead Management:

Managers encourage input & discussion of work, to improve quality Manager or designee shows or models work to be done & makes efforts to increase workers sense of control Manager teaches workers to evaluate their own work for quality

Manager teaches that continuous improvement is essential to quality Managers role is to facilitate & support & create an environment that is friendly and non-coercive, therefore, nonadversarial

References
Works of William Glasser, including the following:

Schools Without Failure (1969) Choice Theory in the Classroom (1988) The Choice Theory Manager (1994) The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion (1997) Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom (1998) Creating the Competence Based Classroom (1999)

Ludwig & Mentley. (1997). Quality is the key.

Quality Schools Resources

The William Glasser Institute 22024 Lassen Street, Suite 118

Chatsworth, CA 91311
Phone: (818) 700-8000 Fax: (818) 700-0555 Web site: http://www.wglasser.com E-mail: wginst@wglasser.com

Huntington Woods School

Wyoming, MI Phone: (616) 530-7537

Center for Reality Therapy

7672 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, Oh 45236

Phone: (513) 561-1191 Website: www.realitytherapywub.com E-mail: wubsrt@fuse.net

Quality Schools Presentation

Presenter: Lisbeth K. Justice Kent, Ohio
E-mail: lkjusti1@kent.edu Phone: (330) 673-5839

2003