Date: September 17th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “In the middle of class one of my 4th graders will raise his hand and ask a totally unrelated, off topic, distracting, and sometimes alarming question. How should I respond to this?”
Date: September 3rd, 2023
Polly answers the question: “I have a high school kid who will not turn over her cell phone when I ask for it! It’s my policy and all the kids know it. I know her life is not that positive, and there isn’t a lot of room for learning in her brain right now, but I feel like I need to hold her accountable. It’s always a huge power struggle that results in administrative referral. How can I chip away at her refusal without it costing me our relationship?”
Date: August 20th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “This year I’m seeing an alarming amount of ‘hands on’ and “adult” behavior with my 5th graders. Yikes! Any thoughts about addressing this?”
Date: July 9th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “I like to use timers to get the kids to move and get things done. Do you think this is helping or is it stressful?”
Date: July 1st, 2023
Polly answers the question: “We have a pack of kids in our middle school who feed off each other! They wander the halls, cause trouble, they make snarky comments to teachers. And it’s getting harder and harder to muster up the energy to deal with them! How can we get this group to stop?”
Date: May 24th, 2023
When a kid swears at you, don’t let it derail your whole class. Is that hard? Absolutely!
Date: April 26th, 2023
Behavior management plans help us to manage kids’ behaviors. But we don’t stop there. We also need to teach skills.
Date: March 22nd, 2023
What do we need to do in order to prevent behaviors from becoming safety issues?
Date: November 13th, 2022
Polly answers the question: “I’ve been using clip charts, marble jars, and other behavior management techniques I’ve learned over the years, but they’re not working that well anymore. Can you recommend one that works?”
Date: November 5th, 2022
Polly answers the question: “How can we address vaping in the high school bathrooms?”
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