Teaching Respect the Wrong Way?
Date: March 19th, 2025
When you don’t clearly define what respect means in your school, then you end up missing the mark trying to teach it!
Ask Polly Bath: SWEARING $%@!
Date: January 5th, 2025
Polly answers the question: “How do you respond to a younger kid swearing versus an older kid swearing?”
Ask Polly Bath: Defeated by Rudeness and Disrespect?
Date: August 31st, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I am the school counselor at a middle school and I am feeling so defeated by the rudeness, disrespect, and hatred I have been seeing from students lately. I have tried so many things, suggestions?”
My Vision for Behavior
Date: June 5th, 2024
Through management, intervention, and logical consequences, I learn how to manage my skill deficits and challenges, accept who I am, and know proactively how to respond to the world, the good, the bad, and the ugly, without creating disruptions, disrespects, refusals, and safeties.
Ask Polly Bath: Student Feels Disrespected?
Date: February 18th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “What do I say to a student who comes to me feeling like they have been disrespected by another teacher… And they may be correct?”
Ask Polly Bath: Logical Consequences?
Date: January 28th, 2024
How Do You Define Lying?
Date: November 21st, 2023
We often define lying as disrespect. But doing this gets our emotions involved and we take the behavior personally.
Ask Polly Bath: Is Swearing the New Norm?
Date: August 5th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “This year cuss words and slurs seem normal to our students! Even my 3rd graders! I’m struggling not to let the level of disrespect hijack my feelings. How do I send the message that their language matters – to me and to each other?”
Behaviors and Teacher’s Emotions
Date: July 19th, 2023
We all have an automatic thought when a kid gives us behaviors. But we have to make sure to catch the emotions that go with our automatic thought!
Annoying Behaviors and Power Struggles
Date: May 31st, 2023
Annoying behaviors are just that, ANNOYING! But if those behaviors aren’t actually creating a problem, don’t make them a problem and get into a power struggle.
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