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Governing principles should guide and govern all actions toward the students at BAC. These principles are more basic, intrinsic, and pervasive than all of our behavior management strategies. These principles should be inherent in all actions and interactions with the students. The correct and effective application of behavior management strategies requires the staff to really know both the student and the strategies. Behavioral principles must be individually applied. Sometimes, in the "heat of the moment", staff have to make discretionary calls based on their experience and understanding of the individual student. The whole process of effective intervention will be determined by whether the correct discretionary call is made. All staff, when applying behavior management strategies to our students, should be influenced by the following governing principles:

1. All things should accrue toward the benefit and well being of the individual.

2. All things should lead towards normalization.

3. All things should work towards independence.

4. All individuals deserve to be treated with kindness, dignity and respect.

5. We must know and understand the difference between the behavior of the individual and the individual. We should learn how to correct and redirect inappropriate behavior without making it feel like a personal attack by constructively addressing the behavior and not the person.

6. All children are indwelled by the potential for good behavior and bad behavior. All of our words and actions should cultivate, strengthen, reinforce, and develop the potential for good that is in all people. Conversely, all words and actions should weaken, deprive and erode the potential for bad behavior.

7. All children are indwelled by the instinct for survival and self-preservation. We should use this instinct to train the will, the choices, and the decision-making process.

8. All individuals can improve their behavior.

9. All individuals can and should continue to learn throughout their entire lives.

10. All disciplinary action and consequences should be instructive in nature, and not punitive.






					THE TEN GOVERNING PRINCIPLES Governing principles should guide and govern all actions toward the students at BAC. These principles are more basic, intrinsic, and pervasive than all of our behavior management strategies. These principles should be inherent in all actions and interactions with the students. The correct and effective application of behavior management strategies requires the staff to really know both the student and the strategies. Behavioral principles must be individually applied. Sometimes, in the "heat of the moment", staff have to make discretionary calls based on their experience and understanding of the individual student. The whole process of effective intervention will be determined by whether the correct discretionary call is made. All staff, when applying behavior management strategies to our students, should be influenced by the following governing principles: 1. All things should accrue toward the benefit and well being of the individual. 2. All things should lead towards normalization. 3. All things should work towards independence. 4. All individuals deserve to be treated with kindness, dignity and respect. 5. We must know and understand the difference between the behavior of the individual and the individual. We should learn how to correct and redirect inappropriate behavior without making it feel like a personal attack by constructively addressing the behavior and not the person. 6. All children are indwelled by the potential for good behavior and bad behavior. All of our words and actions should cultivate, strengthen, reinforce, and develop the potential for good that is in all people. Conversely, all words and actions should weaken, deprive and erode the potential for bad behavior. 7. All children are indwelled by the instinct for survival and self-preservation. We should use this instinct to train the will, the choices, and the decision-making process. 8. All individuals can improve their behavior. 9. All individuals can and should continue to learn throughout their entire lives. 10. All disciplinary action and consequences should be instructive in nature, and not punitive.