Regulating Yourself When a Kid Swears at You
Date: February 19th, 2025
Ask Polly Bath: Blurting Out in Class!
Date: February 8th, 2025
Polly answers the question: “I need help with blurters! They have such a need to talk in order to process so I try to let them talk when possible but it gets out of hand. How do I manage this?”
Make SEL Natural!
Date: February 5th, 2025
Social Emotional Learning is such a BIG topic! We really need to look at it as something natural that we lean into every day, no matter what we’re doing. Here’s what I mean…
Ask Polly Bath: Kid Always Sleeping in Class?
Date: January 25th, 2025
Polly answers the question: “I am a new teacher and I have a second grade student who has literally been sleeping in class since the start of the school year. To date, he’s done absolutely nothing. How can I handle this?”
Ask Polly Bath: Teach Those Social Skills!
Date: December 29th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “What resources do you like for teaching social skills to middle and high school kids? We really need help with this!”
Teach Brain Health!
Date: December 25th, 2024
To have a healthy brain, you need to slow down and clear your thought process. Are you teaching kids how to do this?
Make it Easier to Apologize
Date: December 11th, 2024
Teach kids how they can apologize without feeling like they’re losing ground in a power struggle.
Behaviors in Independent Work Centers
Date: November 26th, 2024
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?
Ask Polly Bath: Kids LOUD at Lunch?
Date: November 2nd, 2024
Polly answers the question: “What are your feelings about trying to keep 80 elementary schoolers silent in the lunch line and at certain times during their lunch? Our cafeteria is SO LOUD!”
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