Dealing with an angry kid? Both management and intervention are needed!

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Polly answers the question: “What would you do with a child in a classroom who hits and spits?”

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Polly answers the question: “In my position, I offer support to kids who have difficult life circumstances. However, sometimes it seems the child doesn’t have the bandwidth to process my suggestions and still participate in their classwork. Do you have any ideas for me?”

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Are your students having a hard time focusing? I just came across this super fun way to help kids learn how to focus.

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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.

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Polly answers the question: “We give our kids with higher ACES scores extra support but they often still resort to escalating behaviors and/or refusal. Why are they still struggling with learning?”

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Teach kids how to pull themselves together when they’re disregulated.

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Polly answers the question: “We have been improving our strategies such as our In-School Intervention program but some staff are not sticking to the new strategies. Have you seen this in other schools? How do we address this inconsistency?”

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We tend to get so focused on a child’s behavior and how we’re going to change it. Instead, let’s shift the focus to what is driving that behavior.

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There is a difference between behavior management plans and intervention plans. Behavior management plans are for the adults. Intervention plans are for the kids.

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