This article presents guiding principles governing the design, implementation, and management of a point system to promote discipline and academic rigor in a secondary classroom. Four considerations are discussed: (1) assigning appropriate point values to integral classroom behaviors and tasks; (2) determining the relationship among consequences, rewards, and corresponding point attainment thresholds for the purpose of reinforcing ideal behavior; (3) stressing equity and minimizing distractions during implementation; and (4) creating a recordkeeping system to ensure the efficient management of the point system. Equipped with this customizable framework, readers can then create a point system tailored to a multitude of classroom needs. (Contains 6 figures.)