Behavior issuses

Our project is dealing with behavior issues in the classroom and involving parents, guidance counselors and social workers in dealing with behavior management. For my portion of the project I am planning on presenting some of the literature on classroom management that has been studied, either formally or anecdotaly. Then our group plans on presenting the information as a role playing of ways in which to deal with a certain situation. I'm really looking forward to addressing some of the things I have seen in schools that I've worked in (like support staff hitting children) and instead focus on more positive ways of dealing with classroom management. There are just so many ideas out there about ways to get students involved in class and getting through the school day productively. Hopefully we can all find something to take away from this presentation and we can work on taking away Milwaukee's title of having the most suspensions out of any school district in the country!