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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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?”

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Polly answers the question: “Is there anything we can do about bathroom behavior in our middle/high school? It is getting worse and worse!”

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If you’ve got a child who keeps disrupting class, and interventions aren’t working… try this…

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