Date: November 8th, 2023
What do you do when a kid is chronically late to class?
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Date: April 22nd, 2023
Polly answers the question: “I have a 6th grader who keeps disrupting my history class so I give her detentions. But I’m not seeing any improvements in her behavior. How do I get better results?”
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Date: April 10th, 2022
Here’s how to change behavior with your detentions.
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Date: February 28th, 2021
Is it possible for detentions to CHANGE behaviors? Yes! Here’s how.
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Date: June 1st, 2019
This is how I handle giving a student a detention so they don’t check out on me for the rest of my class!
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Date: January 9th, 2019
If we have to give out a detention, we want it to mean something!
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Date: December 12th, 2018
If the way you do suspensions and detentions is working at your school, then you won’t keep seeing the same kids over and over.
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Date: November 17th, 2018
When I give a detention, I make sure I’m the one in with the student. Why?
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Date: August 15th, 2018
Remember when punishment changed behavior? Well, it doesn’t do that now, and here’s why…
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Date: May 9th, 2018
I use short, short detentions to turn around troublemakers.
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