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Marv
Marshall—an American educator, author, and speaker—is widely known for his
approach and his landmark book
Discipline Without Stress® Punishments or Rewards - How Teachers and
Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning.
He has founded a charitable
organization to assist schools promote responsibility and learning by supplying this education book at no charge to every teacher of any school in the
U.S.A. that applies to use his proactive and noncoercive (but not
permissive) approach for at lease one year. Applications are available
online at
DisciplineWithoutStress.org.
He has presented in
44 of the United States, in 16 countries, and on 5 continents to parent groups;
schools; school districts; universities; local, state, national, and
international associations; and government agencies.
He has a world-wide audience of over 16,000 subscribers to his free monthly newsletter, "Promoting
Responsibility & Learning." You
can subscribe by inserting your e-mail address in the box on the left
and then tapping "Subscribe."
His approach
stemmed from his experiences as parent; recreation director and camp counselor; classroom
teacher at the elementary, middle, and high school levels; middle school counselor;
middle school assistant principal; high school counselor; high school guidance department chair; high school assistant principal of both supervision and control and
curriculum and instruction; and as an elementary and high school principal.
He has also served as a demonstration teacher, instructional coordinator,
district director of education, and full-time instructor
at California State University, Los Angeles.
He earned his Bachelor's in Language Arts and his Masters' in Business
Administration at California State University, Los Angeles. His Doctorate in
Education was awarded by the University of Southern California.
He is certified by the William Glasser Institute on
Reality Therapy and Choice Theory.
His experiences prompted him to
develop a system that employs internal motivation—rather than
relying on external approaches of bribes and manipulation
or by employing coercion in the form of threats or punishments. A
prime reason for its success and the growing numbers of parents and
teachers using his approach is that internal motivation is significantly
more effective in changing behavior than any external approach.
His system is based on the simple fact of life that a person can be
controlled by another person but only can be changed
by the actual person. This understanding that individuals can only change
themselves is critical to successfully influencing young people to have them
become more responsible—while simultaneously reducing parental stress and
allowing parents to have a life of their own.
Additional information about his approach is at
MarvinMarshall.com.
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