Date: February 20th, 2014
Watch this video [0:55] to learn why sitting next to the teacher isn’t always the best place for every kid who needs preferential seating.
Date: February 13th, 2014
Watch this video [1:36] to hear my thoughts on how we can’t keep doing the same thing around behavior if it isn’t working.
Date: February 6th, 2014
Watch this video [0:58] to learn what I do to manage a kid who is getting antsy, before he or she goes too far.
Date: January 30th, 2014
Watch this video [0:54] to learn how being observed helps me manage behavior better.
Date: January 23rd, 2014
Watch this video [0:56] to learn why you might not always want to say “thank you” when a student does what you asked her to do.
Date: January 16th, 2014
Watch this video [0:58] to learn a trick I used in algebra instruction that improved delivery of the curriculum, and hence reduced behaviors.
Date: January 9th, 2014
Watch this video [1:33] to learn about describing both good and bad behavior choices for kids.
Date: January 2nd, 2014
Watch this video [0:54] to learn the single factor that renders most behavior plans useless.
Date: December 24th, 2013
I spent the weekend trying to resurrect an inviting classroom from a carnage of mismatched plastic furniture. Every chair and desk wore battle scars or patches of duct tape. The closet overflowed with garbage. I’d been hired just three days before school started so, with almost no preparation time, I was grateful I’d be teaching an old favorite for my first class, “Catcher in the Rye.” Officially my title was teacher of the Emotionally and Behaviorally Disturbed; unofficially, it was 9th grade English.
Date: December 19th, 2013
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