Classroom teachers have the flexibility to design specific classroom management strategies that are responsive to their student's backgrounds and fit with their own personal style of teaching. Those strategies should be aligned to the five categories that research has linked to positive student outcomes:

1. Maximize structure in the classroom with predictable routines and a safe, orderly environment

2. Teach, monitor, and reinforce expectations and rules that are aligned to the school-wide expectations

3. Actively engage students by providing contextually relevant instruction that includes high rates of opportunities to respond

4. Use a continuum of contextually relevant strategies to acknowledge appropriate behavior

5. Use a continuum of contextually relevant strategies to respond to inappropriate behavior