Ask Polly Bath: Giving Elementary Students Sensory Breaks?

Date: December 2nd, 2025

Polly answers the question: “I’d like to throw in a couple sensory breaks every day for my elementary students, even though we’d miss some academic time. What’s your opinion?”

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Train the Brain to Focus | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH

Date: November 2nd, 2025

How I teach kids to focus on one thing at a time!

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When Every Kid Has a Water Bottle | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH

Date: October 18th, 2025

Do students really need water bottles on their desks all the time?

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Ideas for Avoiding Burnout | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH

Date: September 21st, 2025

If you’ve got a tough class this year, here are some ideas for avoiding burnout!!

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Kids Late to Class? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH

Date: August 30th, 2025

Here’s what you can do to help prevent kids from being late to class.

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Ask Polly Bath: “I’m Worried About My Student!”

Date: January 18th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “I am very concerned about one of my students. It seems like there is nothing anyone can say to this child. They cause trouble in class which lands them in ISS where they cause trouble again. Recently their behavior escalated to the point that they landed in juvenile court where they talked back to the judge! What can be done?”

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Preventing Escalation!

Date: November 20th, 2024

I saw a brilliant example of a teacher using the skill of ‘reading the room’ in order to prevent behaviors from escalating.

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Timers and Self-regulation

Date: November 13th, 2024

Here’s how to help kids self-regulate their behavior using timers during the lecture part of class.

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Behaviors and Hands-on Math?!?

Date: November 6th, 2024

You get the Unifix cubes out to teach math to youngsters and what happens? They start playing! How do you handle that behavior?

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Behavior and Sensory Overload

Date: October 2nd, 2024

Directly teach your students how to NOT be distracted by their own senses in the classroom.

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