About me
Scott Ervin has spent twenty-four years working with kids. He has served as a principal, superintendent, discipline specialist, mentor and father. 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”, appearing weekly in major newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Miami Herald and the Dallas Morning News. 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. A former difficult kid, Scott lives in Dayton, Ohio with his wife Jessica and his daughter Violet.
