Ask Polly Bath: Shouts Out! Jumps Up!

Date: August 20th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “I have a student who constantly shouts out during instruction and can’t stay in his seat for more than a few minutes. How can I help him exhibit more control?”

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Teach Kids How to Stay Focused in Your Class!

Date: August 12th, 2025

Being able to focus our attention is a skill. Here’s one way to help kids focus longer!

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Kids Interrupting Your Teaching? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH

Date: August 9th, 2025

Here are a couple of things you can do to lessen kids talking while you’re teaching.

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Does Everything We Teach Have a Purpose?

Date: July 27th, 2025

A high school student once asked me, “Do you teach us things that we’re never gonna use in our life?” This was my response!

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Curriculum, School Store, & Behavior

Date: July 23rd, 2025

Here’s how one teacher I met connected intrinsic rewards with curriculum, school values, the school store, and behavior. Brilliant!

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Squabbling?

Date: July 15th, 2025

Teach kids how to solve their own squabbles, instead of doing it for them!

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Ask Polly Bath: Helping Angry Youngsters?

Date: July 12th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “How can I help my young students work through anger, frustration, shutting down, and refusal when they already don’t have much control over their emotions?”

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Ask Polly Bath: Consequences Not Working?

Date: June 29th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “We have some students who just don’t care about the consequences we give for their behaviors. What do we do then?”

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Kid Explodes into a Tantrum?

Date: June 18th, 2025

When a kid explodes into a tantrum, it’s NOT the time to say ‘use your words’!

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Be Silent in Line!

Date: June 11th, 2025

Is there a purpose to having our students be completely silent in line? Or is it just something we’ve always done?

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