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

control and evaluation
by theteaches
boss, in Lead
relationships,
Manager
Managers encourage
that
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of
continuous
work, to improve
improvement is
quality
essential to quality
Manager or designee
Managers role is to
shows or models work
facilitate & support &
to be done & makes
create an environment
efforts to increase
that is friendly and
workers sense of
non-coercive,
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therefore, non Manager teaches
adversarial
workers to evaluate
their own work for
quality

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