Calm and Confident: Tier 1 Behavior Strategies That Work

Lead your U.S. classroom with calm, clarity, and confidence.

Behavior looks different in every educational system. In U.S. schools, teachers are expected to prevent and redirect most day-to-day behavior themselves, using proactive, universal Tier 1 strategies, before any extra support is added. This course gives international educators the practical tools to do that with dignity and consistency.

You will learn how the U.S. three-tiered system (MTSS and PBIS) works, how to teach routines from Day 1, and how to use proximity, nonverbal cues, behavior-specific praise, choice giving, and private correction. You will rehearse a calm 5-step response to student conflict, then leave with three tools of your own: a Proximity Practice Plan, a Behavior Response Script, and a Personal Tier 1 Toolkit.

What is included: a video lesson, a 16-page fillable JOY workbook, a reading and Apply It worksheet for your own school and students, a 10-question knowledge check, and a JOY Certificate of Completion. About 2 hours, self-paced.