title: Behave Yourself! Helping Students Plan to Do Better
author: Ambrose Panico
description: Ambrose &#34;Broz&#34; Panico is a veteran educator and change agent who has worked as a teacher, coach, dean, principal, State Due Process Hearing Officer, and central office administrator. Ambrose began his career as a teacher in a Chicago public school behavior disorders classroom and is currently the assistant director of the Exceptional Children Have Opportunities (ECHO) Joint Agreement, located in South Holland, Illinois. He has developed therapeutic public school options for students who require higher levels of support in order to succeed. Ambrose helps districts meet their students needs in general education classrooms or district special programs. He also works with district personnel to create environments that enhance and support students who are attempting to behave better and to develop and implement behavioral intervention plans that empower them to do so. As a consultant, he has supported the efforts of like-minded educators on a national level. In addition to his public school career, he is a private professional development specialist, consultant, and trainer. His books, Adventure Education for the Classroom Community: Over 90 Activities for Developing Character, Responsibility, and the Courage to Achieve (2000) and Discipline and the Classroom Community: Recapturing Control of Our Schools (1999), and articles, The Classroom Community Model: Teaching Responsibility (1997) and Service Learning as a Community Initiation (1998), are evidence of his professional commitment to responsibility education.
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  To say my day was not going well, would be like saying the French Revolution
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  sputtered all the way to school. Only half of the students in my first class
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