Date: December 22nd, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I am a paraprofessional dealing with a fifth-grade boy who curses me out, hits me, throws things at me, and generally terrorizes me. He says he hates me and wants to force me to quit my job. I do not have support from the teacher. What can I do?”
Date: September 22nd, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I teach a program for kids who have significant social emotional challenges and they use foul language frequently. But if I used the standard approach with them, I’d have them in detention for swearing every day! How do I handle this?”
Date: November 26th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “I work in a self-contained, more restrictive program. We have one kid who has a history of being a ‘runner.’ I want to prevent this but I realize that I can’t possibly block doors or be at two doors at once. How can we prepare for this in advance? And how can we respond so the running stops eventually?”
Date: September 10th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “When a kid gets so upset that they smash a window, are they aware of how out of control they are? And what’s a logical consequence?”
Date: June 10th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “Our high school has kids who work really hard and never get into trouble but it seems like we get so bogged down dealing with the kids who are having problems that these kids feel ignored. How can we encourage them to keep up the great work?”
Date: April 8th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “We have had an incredible up-tick in violence in our high school recently and we’re very worried! Why are kids so physically aggressive with each other these days?”
Date: March 19th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “I send high schoolers down to the office when they act up in my class and it doesn’t seem to make any difference! So I wonder if I should just save the office for really higher level stuff so the kids know when they have truly gone too far?”
Date: January 11th, 2023
If we are not consistent with a child whose behavior escalates, then they will continue to push that behavior to see what happens.
Date: January 4th, 2023
Date: November 5th, 2022
Polly answers the question: “How can we address vaping in the high school bathrooms?”
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