Can’t You Read the Room?
Date: March 27th, 2024
Kids are struggling with the skill of ‘reading the room.’ What can we do? Use unstructured social time to coach them!
Ask Polly Bath: Kids Want Choices for Everything
Date: March 23rd, 2024
Polly answers the question: “Right now my students seem to think they should have a choice about everything. At what point should they realize that some things are not up to them?”
Inviting Environment?
Date: March 20th, 2024
Does the environment in our schools invite kids in and make them excited to be there? It should!
Ask Polly Bath: Is Setting Goals Helpful or Hurtful?
Date: March 16th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I like to set goals for myself and the kids. But when we don’t reach them, it feels like we both failed. Is there a better strategy?”
Are You Angry?
Date: March 13th, 2024
Ask Polly Bath: Go to the Principal’s Office?
Date: March 10th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I am supposed to refer kids to the principal’s office for their behavior but nothing seems to come of it! So I just don’t do it anymore. What’s the point?”
Angry Outbursts!
Date: March 6th, 2024
Remembering that there are feelings behind a kid’s angry outburst will help you to respond instead of react.
Ask Polly Bath: Prompts to Get Kids to Listen?
Date: March 3rd, 2024
Polly answers the question: “In my classroom I use prompts to get everyone’s attention, like, ‘Put your hand on your head if you are using whole body listening.’ This worked for a long time. But now they put their hands on their heads and keep right on talking! What am I doing wrong here?”
Behaviors & Blaming Others?
Date: February 28th, 2024
Ask Polly Bath: Only Teacher Enforcing Dress Code?
Date: February 25th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I had a kid say to me today: ‘Other kids are wearing the same thing I am but you’re the only teacher who’s got a problem with it!’ No one is enforcing the dress code but me! Help!”
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