Invest in some training with Kagan Cooperative Learning. This system teaches you specific strategies to engage your students in the idea that they work as a team. They give you ways to select your working teams in the classroom, strategies for answering questions, and classroom management tools that promote cooperation among the entire class. It truly is a well-researched way to instruct your students and promote SEL with your students.

Behavior usually comes with times when the students are disengaged. Using engagement strategies will help. Another strategy I find to be helpful is to purposely have times when the students can disengage from work like brain breaks or “burn 5 minutes”, an idea by Michael R. Kay. Also reflecting on how you instruct. We, ourselves, could be the cause of disengagement that leads to behavior issues.

Concious Displince is the philosophy and brain research that we use when thinking about student behavior and management.
The time machine, breathing strategies, and safe spot are the tools that we use the most . Teaching students to recognize what is their brain state helps us determine what the best course of action to take in given situation. For example, if a student is in survival mode, they are unable to learn or reason in that moment. For that student, recognizing and being safe is the most important thing to help disfuse and move that student out of the survival state.
Here is the link to the Conscious Discipline website and their discipline tips.
https://consciousdiscipline.com/free-resources/discipline-tips/