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!”
Behavior and Sensory Overload
Date: October 2nd, 2024
Directly teach your students how to NOT be distracted by their own senses in the classroom.
Start the Day with Play
Date: September 4th, 2024
I recently saw a teacher bring play into “morning meeting,” and it was VERY effective.
Ask Polly Bath: Defeated by Rudeness and Disrespect?
Date: August 31st, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I am the school counselor at a middle school and I am feeling so defeated by the rudeness, disrespect, and hatred I have been seeing from students lately. I have tried so many things, suggestions?”
Don’t Stuff Big Emotions!
Date: August 20th, 2024
Helping an Unraveling Kid
Date: July 31st, 2024
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