Scott Ervin is a speaker working with Kirkland Productions through Safe & Sound Schools.

About

Scott Ervin has spent twenty-three years working with kids. He has served as a principal, superintendent, and discipline specialist. Scott has worked in schools and classrooms with poverty rates between 84% and 100%. During his tenure as a principal, he doubled the size of his school, receiving students exclusively from schools in Academic Watch and Academic Emergency while maintaining Continuous Improvement status during that time. Scott’s positive outcomes were exemplified by, one year teaching third grade, having a 95% poverty rate in his room, and having 95% of those students pass the reading guarantee of the Ohio Achievement Assessment.

Scott has published a book with ASCD, The Classroom Behavior Manual: How to Build Relationships with Students, Share Control, and Teach Positive Behaviors, and also writes a nationally syndicated newspaper advice column called “The Kid Whisperer.” The book was the number one new release in the world in the field of education on Amazon. He has been featured in The Washington Post, USA Today, and on MSN. 

Scott and his team now travel the country teaching adults how to teach kids to use positive, pro-social behaviors. They demonstrate how to elicit positive behaviors in classrooms and common areas, retrain educators on how to do this, and coach these educators in real-time.

He has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, a Master’s degree in Education, and has held an Ohio PreK-3 Teacher’s License. He has taught classroom management as an adjunct professor at Antioch-Midwest and as a visiting lecturer at The University of Dayton, Kansas State University, Ohio University, and Wright State University.

popular programs

The Nine Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom®
(18 hours of workshops, includes a 2 hour introduction) is a comprehensive way of being calm and assertive with even the most difficult kids. It is nine skills, that, when used cumulatively, can allow any educator to be able to create a calm, strict, safe, loving environment where adults can teach and students can learn. Skills include:
  1. Neutralizing Argument
  2. Delaying Consequences
  3. Utilizing Empathy
  4. Utilizing the Recovery Process
  5. Building Positive Student-Teacher Relationships
  6. Utilizing Enforceable Statements
  7. Utilizing Choices to Prevent Power Struggles
  8. Quick and Easy Preventive Classroom Interventions
  9. Guiding Students to Own and Solve Their Own Problems
Calm/Assertive Procedures for the Classroom
(18 Hours of total instruction includes a 1 hour introduction)
Relationship Building Procedures
  1. ESPN Greeting
  2. Team Creation
  3. Nickname creation and ceremony
  4. Afternoon Meeting/ Celebrations
  5. ESPN Goodbye
Control Sharing Procedures
  1. Student-led Morning Meeting
  2. Student-led transitions
  3. Student-led prompts
  4. Student-led choices
  5. Student-led workshop choices
  6.  Student-led Afternoon Meeting
Calm/Assertive Procedures for a Calm and Quiet Classroom
  1. How to Create a Truly Silent “Silent, Sustained Reading” Environment
  2. How to Create a Calm, Pleasant Workshop Environment
  3. How to Get Students to Work Hard Without Asking Them To
Calm/Assertive Behavioral Intervention Plan
  1. Want/Control Analysis: Create a plan to get the desired behaviors from any student in any situation.
How to Interact with Parents: No Matter How Difficult They Are
(1.5 Hours)
Even the most skilled teacher, principal, or superintendent can be made miserable by a persistently difficult parent. Let me train your staff or district to work with parents in a calm, and assertive way so that you can hold students and parents accountable in order to do your very difficult job with optimal effectiveness.
How to Effectively Monitor and Bully-Proof Students
(2 Hours)
Effective and thoughtful monitoring and teaching of students from power positions is an essential skill in creating safe, calm schools where teachers can teach and students can learn. Let me show your school or district how to use proper monitoring techniques in both classrooms and common areas so that both educators and students can spend their days in a healthy, safe, pro-social environment. In addition, I can teach your staff or district how to create consequences for bullying that will extinguish this negative behavior and help create a safe space in which students can learn.

No matter how safe we make schools through proper monitoring and the use of logical consequences, there will be times when we are not able to monitor students: on the bus, at home, or online. When we show students effective skills for dealing with bullies, we give them a tool that they can use to empower themselves for the rest of their lives.
You Will Fail Because You Are Not Good Enough (and other words of inspiration)
(20 to 45 minutes)
This speech is perfect as a commencement address or motivational message for high school or college students. The message is that failure is a guaranteed part of success for any worthwhile endeavor. The awareness of this guarantee can help the child or young adult to handle it in stride. The tools contained in this speech allow them to use failure to create success.
Scott Ervin's book, The Classroom Behavior Manual, was the #1 new release in education on Amazon. It is the world's first true manual for classroom behavior management and guides teachers on how to be experts at building relationships, sharing control, and teaching positive behaviors. 

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I like that the whole school is on the same page-including parents, teachers, and administrators. Good things are happening academically because we are spending less time on discipline!

Jennifer Levine, Mt. Ayr Community Schools, Iowa

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