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- Workshops and Consulting
- Managing and Changing Lunchroom & Recess Behavior
- Improve Difficult Behaviors by Teaching Kids the Social and Emotional Skills You Need Them to Know
- Responding to Tier 2 Behaviors
- Addressing Effects of the Pandemic: Reduce Behaviors, Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma, While Increasing Student Engagement
- Managing and Changing Difficult Classroom Behavior: A Practical, Uncomplicated Approach for Now and the Future
- The Great Paraprofessional: Behavior Management Skills
- Training: A Clear and Concise FBA©
- Managing & Changing Difficult Classroom Behavior That Interrupts Instruction
- Improve School Behavior by Teaching Social Skills All Day Long!
- 5 Steps Every Educator Can Take to Address BEHAVIOR, TRAUMA, & SEL in a Remote or In-Person Classroom
- 5 Steps to Solving a Student’s Behavior Problem in Your Classroom
- Summer Institutes
- Keynotes
- Articles and Videos
- [Video] Keep accommodation within school rules
- [Video] Classroom management: talking in class
- [Video] The fastest way to wreck a perfectly good behavior plan
- [Video] Don’t Reward Attention-Seeking Room Trashing
- [Video] Make Benchmarks Super Easy
- [Video] How to Build a Relationship with a Disruptive Kid | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] 3 Ways to Reduce a Kid’s Stress
- [Video] Escalating Behaviors Calls for Consistency
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kid Always Sleeping in Class?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Class Clown!
- [Video] We MUST Teach Anger Self-Management
- [Video] Make NO Mean NO!!!
- [Video] Behavior: Got a Frequent Flyer?
- [Video] Anxious to AVOID?
- [Video] Can We Make Social Distancing FUN?
- [Video] Kids Swearing in the Hallway? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior: don’t ask, redirect
- [Video] Behavior: reacting to eye-rolling
- [Video] Understand the parents’ heartache or lose the battle.
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Calming Techniques and Disregulation
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Anticipating Escalation
- [Video] Untimely Consequences are Useless
- [Video] If a Kid Misbehaves to Get Attention Because That’s All They Know…
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “Adult” Behaviors from Younger Kids?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Swearing in SEL Program?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Not Taking Specials Seriously?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Using Rewards in Hopes of Good Behavior?
- [Video] No Differentiation? You’ll Get Behaviors Every Time!
- [Video] Brains Need Time to Process!
- [Video] I Don’t Ignore Behavior!
- [Video] Assume Kids DO NOT Have Skills
- [Video] What social skills does a kid need for today’s lesson?
- [Video] How to avoid power struggles with non-directive cues
- [Video] If you give an accommodation, teach ’em how to use it
- [Video] Books for Social Emotional Learning NOW
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Hanging in the Bathroom?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Are Gadgets Distracting?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Unable to Process?
- [Video] Behavior: 2 strategies for tattling
- [Video] Your Kid Punched Someone!
- [Video] Your Presence in the Hall Will Change Behaviors
- [Video] Sending Kids to the Office is a Bad Idea
- [Video] How Do You Help Hypervigilant Kids?
- [Video] Consequences: 4-part rubric for an apology letter
- [Video] My New S.E.L. Sensory Sidewalk!
- [Video] Classroom management: three rules that are a must!
- [Video] Asking a question is a complex social skill
- [Video] Rewards Can Backfire!
- [Video] Don’t Do the WRONG Thing When a Kid with ADHD is Failing Math!!!
- [Video] Don’t BLURT and Regret: Teach Kids How
- [Video] Ask Polly: Blaming and Excusing?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Pack of Kids with Bad Behaviors?
- [Video] Disregulated Kids Need Intervention
- [Video] Behavior: make detention work!
- [Video] Fun Delayed Gratification: Learning How to Wait
- [Video] How to Deal With a Kid Running Out of Your Classroom | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] When a Kid Lands in In-School Suspension
- [Video] Don’t We Want ‘Em to LIKE School?
- [Video] Ask Polly: Student Mental Health in High School
- [Video] Ask Polly: Motivating Students
- [Video] The Kid You Don’t Like!
- [Video] Kids Learn How to Respond by Watching Adults
- [Video] Don’t ban recess games–teach skills
- [Video] Classroom management: teach kids how to wait
- [Video] Oops. I forgot my homework. Again.
- [Video] The Way I Do Lunch Detention
- [Video] How I Respond to Escalating Behaviors
- [Video] Do You Have a Powerhouse Tier 1?
- [Video] Pandemic Behavior: 10th Graders Acting Like 7th Graders
- [Video] Ask Polly: Problematic Dress? Behavior? Speech?
- [Video] Building a Relationship with Parents
- [Video] Behavior: unconditional attention
- [Video] I Won’t Negotiate on These Four Classroom Rules
- [Video] 2 Tips: The Student Who Argues
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Lying to Mom About School?
- [Video] You Can Win Over a Difficult Parent
- [Video] Outta Bed for Class? Or Not?
- [Video] The Power of Meeting a Need
- [Video] Behaviors in Independent Work Centers
- [Video] Tier 1 social coaching after an upsetting recess
- [Video] Behavior: how giving a LITTLE control can make a BIG difference.
- [Video] Miss, he just gave you the finger!
- [Video] Behavior: powerful time outs
- [Video] What is an Apology?
- [Video] Behavior: not a language-based learner?
- [Video] Stop Banning Social Media in School!
- [Video] The Benefit of Hall Duty!!!
- [Video] Don’t Ban Games on the Playground! | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Are You Making Behaviors Worse?
- [Video] Helping an Unraveling Kid
- [Video] Offended and Offensive on Social Media
- [Video] Behavior: Homework & Skill Deficits
- [Video] Behavior: How Do You Make a Decision?
- [Video] Keep a “Neutral” Face
- [Video] I build confidence
- [Video] Don’t wait until a kid kicks the desk over
- [Video] Consequences are Most Effective When They are Timely!
- [Video] Kids Need Play to Develop Executive Functioning Skills
- [Video] Lecture vs. Small Group Seating?
- [Video] Side Conversations in Class!
- [Video] What Does Respect Look Like?
- [Video] Consequences should relate to the behavior
- [Video] We All Lack Emotional Coping Skills – Students and Teachers Alike!
- [Video] Kid Likes to Run Out of the Room?
- [Video] The Key to Avoiding Power Struggles | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Dress code violations are refusal
- [Video] Behavior: get in the middle of recess
- [Video] Don’t invite behaviors – identify needed social skills
- [Video] Sugar-Coated Control?
- [Video] FUN Classroom Conversation Starters
- [Video] Causal Factor of a Behavior?
- [Video] Burdened by Student Behavior?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Extra Support Not Helping?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “I’M BORED!!”
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Giving Elementary Students Sensory Breaks?
- [Video] How to Build Kids’ Confidence | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior: are your expectations too advanced?
- [Video] How to Respond to Attention Seeking Behavior | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Why Detentions Don’t Work But Could
- [Video] If All the Teachers Stood Outside Their Classrooms When Classes Changed…
- [Video] When Teachers Are Visible It Changes School for Kids
- [Video] What’s Behind a Kid’s ANGER?
- [Video] Difficulty With Receptive Language Learning?
- [Video] Use objective words, not subjective, to change behavior
- [Video] Documenting behavior? Stick to the facts.
- [Video] Why we don’t want to ban recess games
- [Video] Behavior: kindergarten problem-solving story
- [Video] Don’t Blow it with Rewards
- [Video] Cause and Effect Bulletin Board to IMPROVE BEHAVIOR
- [Video] Confront? Redirect?
- [Video] It’s a Big Mistake to Think Kids Know How to Behave
- [Video] If I’ve Never Been Regulated at Home…
- [Video] It’s Hard to Be Creative If You’re Traumatized
- [Video] Teach Kids Self-Awareness! Super Important!
- [Video] What Kids Need After Massive Uncertainty
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kid Getting Under Your Skin?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Not Coming in from Recess?
- [Video] Kids Interrupting Your Teaching? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behaviors? Don’t Get Ruffled Up.
- [Video] TELL Kids WHAT to Do
- [Video] Remote Learning: Boundary Between Home and School
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Behaviors Worse Than EVER?
- [Video] How to reduce school hallway behavior
- [Video] Unrealistic behavior goals will crash and burn
- [Video] School Behavior: Kids from Tough Situations
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: What’s My Role as a Para?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: This Kid is MEAN!
- [Video] Behavior: playground consequences and interventions
- [Video] Don’t Ask an Angry Kid to “Use Your Words”
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Behavior and Learning Disabilities?
- [Video] All It Takes Is One Teacher Not Enforcing Rules
- [Video] Behaviors and Academic Bell-to-Bell During Covid
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Not Coming in After Recess?
- [Video] How Many Times Do I Have to Tell Them?
- [Video] Screen Time as a Behavior Reward?
- [Video] Reward programs–don’t use forever
- [Video] Behavior: don’t let blaming work
- [Video] Do you try to reason with a student who’s escalated?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Self-management & Regulation?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “JUST STOP!!!”
- [Video] Q & A: Tardy Again!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Don’t Give Kids the Wrong View of Paras!
- [Video] Teaching SEL is NOT Complicated
- [Video] We Try to Fix Kids with Certain Diagnoses
- [Video] Teachers in Hallways CHANGE Everything!
- [Video] My Vision for Behavior
- [Video] Behavior: what’s going on back there?
- [Video] Behavior: do you REQUIRE eye contact?
- [Video] Starting a power struggle is a dead end
- [Video] Behavior: was I talking to you?
- [Video] My New Favorite SEL Book!
- [Video] 3 Books I Love for SEL and Mindfulness
- [Video] Ask Polly: Can Kids Learn From Other’s Mistakes?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Are Timers Helpful or Stressful?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: How to Handle a Disruptive Student in Class?
- [Video] Unstable Homes – The Only Thing We Can Do in the Classroom | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Are You Losing Control with a High Schooler?
- [Video] Look Deep into Behaviors for Results!
- [Video] Make School a Place Kids Want to Be!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kindergarten Student Wants to Play All Day!
- [Video] A Kid with a Tough Home Life Who’s Always Late
- [Video] Behavior: do you teach kids HOW to self-regulate?
- [Video] Control Yourself is the First Rule
- [Video] If We Don’t Regulate Kids…
- [Video] The Best Way to Redirect Behavior!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Mean Elementary Kids
- [Video] The Mid-Year Funk!
- [Video] Make SEL Natural!
- [Video] Behavior: the forbidden question
- [Video] Behavior: don’t teach kids everyone wins
- [Video] How I helped one student solve his own problem
- [Video] Are You Disregulating Kids’ Behavior?
- [Video] Teach Kids How to Stay Focused in Your Class!
- [Video] Behavior: do you give TOO many breaks?
- [Video] My Four Unbreakable Rules
- [Video] Traumatized Kids Can’t Always Do Recess
- [Video] Should Traumatized Kids Have Limits and Expectations?
- [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Wandering the Halls All Day
- [Video] Ask Polly: “Mean Girls” In Elementary School
- [Video] Behavior and Sensory Overload
- [Video] Don’t Solve All Their Problems for Them
- [Video] Ask Polly: Worsening Behaviors Despite My Efforts
- [Video] Starting the School Morning
- [Video] Behavior: teach respect for authority
- [Video] Gangs & Drug Dealers
- [Video] No Matter the Homelife, Teach Kids to Behave in School
- [Video] Teaching the Harder Emotions
- [Video] Should parents punish kids for in-school behavior?
- [Video] Behavior: handling impulsivity
- [Video] How do I manage my class when a student acts out?
- [Video] Angry Kids Make us Angry
- [Video] Make a Creative Menu of Consequences
- [Video] Deliberately Annoying Behavior?
- [Video] Give Kids Purpose!
- [Video] Behavior: silence or indoor voice?
- [Video] I Failed History Because I was a Bit of a Behavior Problem!
- [Video] Behavior 101: Don’t Take the Bait!
- [Video] Kids Not Using Their Social Skills?
- [Video] Compliance is a Loaded Word and I Don’t Like It
- [Video] My Detentions Change Behavior!
- [Video] 4 Reasons Kids Get Angry
- [Video] I Beg You. Teach Transition Skills.
- [Video] Don’t Force Kids into Social Situations
- [Video] When Is the Best Response NO Response?
- [Video] Blurred Lines of Authority at Home
- [Video] Behavior: disabilities impact development
- [Video] Behavior: is it inappropriate, unacceptable, or insubordinate?
- [Video] What do you do when a student always blames another student?
- [Video] Behavior: Do NOT use the bench!
- [Video] Writing and Behavior?
- [Video] Perception of Electives!
- [Video] Behavior: Disruption and Refusal
- [Video] Is a Kid with ADHD Failing?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Littles Can’t Separate from Parents?
- [Video] The Behavior That Most Impacts the Kid
- [Video] If I Destroyed the Bulletin Board…
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Sneaky Seat Switching?
- [Video] The Only Solution to Running in the Halls | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] When Kids Don’t Know How Their Actions Affect Others | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] How to stop a kid from arguing with you
- [Video] Why I never manage behavior by saying, “I’m going to count to three…”
- [Video] Behavior: put the brakes on your reaction
- [Video] DISTRACTIONS: How to Teach Attention!!!
- [Video] How We Respond Matters!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Lying to Cause Trouble?
- [Video] The Real Problem with the Class Clown | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior: oppositional defiant disorder
- [Video] Behavior from Disorganized Kids?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: 5 Year-Old Running and Shoving?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Blurting Out in Class!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Teach Kids the Difference Between Equity and Equality
- [Video] Behavior: how kids are sitting
- [Video] When You Throw Them Out They Miss Instruction
- [Video] Every Behavior Meets a Need!
- [Video] Teach Transition Skills or Suffer the Consequences!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Improve Behavior?
- [Video] Bathroom Passes Causing Problems in Your Classroom? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Handling work avoidance in class
- [Video] Do you break building rules in your classroom?
- [Video] Teaching tricks I learned from winning coaches
- [Video] Behavior: Don’t argue with a student!
- [Video] Over-accommodating is a Serious Mistake!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Hitting and Spitting!
- [Video] Take Away All Their Control and You’ve Got a Fight
- [Video] I Like the Peaceful Power of a Non-Directive Cue
- [Video] Mask Power Struggles!
- [Video] Is Dis-Engagement Always a Behavior?
- [Video] Transitions and Talking
- [Video] Behaviors During Share Time?
- [Video] The point of detention? To teach skills
- [Video] I Control My Temper No Matter What a Kid Says
- [Video] What’s the Goal of a Consequence?
- [Video] Non-Directive Cues Work!
- [Video] Behavior: over-rewarding will backfire
- [Video] Does giving attention to an attention-seeker work?
- [Video] Special SEL Classes Are Fine, But YOU Have to Teach It Too
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Cell Phones and Power Struggles?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Plugging Toilets on Purpose?
- [Video] Behavior: low SEL equals poor academic rigor
- [Video] Any Behavior is a Skill Deficit
- [Video] Teach skills in detention
- [Video] Do Kids Have Any Idea Where Comments Go on Social Media?
- [Video] Do Your Behavior Rewards FAIL?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: I Dread Calling Parents!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Helping Upset Kids
- [Video] Don’t Respond Till You are CALM.
- [Video] Kids Get in Trouble in the World When WE Let Adult Authority Slide
- [Video] Not Being Able to Handle Rejection Can Cause a Behavior Problem
- [Video] Anxiety: “I Can’t Find the Words”
- [Video] Don’t get tired of enforcing the rules
- [Video] Coaching an ADHD kid in math
- [Video] Get the desks right or lose the class
- [Video] Behavior: Fix Disregulation!
- [Video] Why I Like Middle School House Systems
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Student Feels Disrespected?
- [Video] When Kids Are Rude to Adults! | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior: Are You Over-Accommodating ANXIETY?
- [Video] A Fun Way to Help Kids Focus!
- [Video] Punishment: No recess? Detention?
- [Video] Behavior: build conversation skills
- [Video] How to Pay Attention When You Can’t But Must
- [Video] Send to the Office?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Logical Consequences?
- [Video] Do You Let All Behaviors Stop You from Teaching?
- [Video] What was the Function of THAT Behavior?
- [Video] Why Reflecting on ‘My Behavior Choice’ Doesn’t Always Work for a Kid
- [Video] Behavior: Transitions and Acting Out
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Social Media and Social Skills?
- [Video] Make it Easier to Apologize
- [Video] The Take-Five Technique
- [Video] Balance Intervention and Accountability
- [Video] Change Behavior by Changing School Culture!
- [Video] Let’s teach delayed gratification
- [Video] Behavior: is my way always the right way?
- [Video] Do you let a late student interrupt your momentum?
- [Video] Ask Polly: No Problem-Solving Skills?
- [Video] Kids Need Help with Big Feelings! | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] School Year 2020-21 A.C.!!!
- [Video] Don’t Just Accommodate Anxiety, Teach Skills!
- [Video] Sensory Issues Cause Behaviors!
- [Video] Just Stop for a Moment
- [Video] Angry Kid with Issues?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Shouts Out! Jumps Up!
- [Video] Behavior: handling distractions!
- [Video] She Was Tardy All the Time!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Middle School Morning Meeting?
- [Video] Kids can behave in school, regardless of home
- [Video] How enforcing school rules makes a BIG difference
- [Video] Why I never tell a student to “act your age.”
- [Video] Behavior: standing/walking in a line
- [Video] I Want Perseverance!
- [Video] Teach Kids to Handle Anxiety, Not Hide
- [Video] Behaviors in Art Class? Music?
- [Video] Ask Polly: Badly Behaved Kindergarteners
- [Video] Ask Polly: Aggressive Horseplay?
- [Video] Are You Soft on Kids with Disabilities?
- [Video] What Impacts Kids’ Behavior the Most?
- [Video] Ask Polly: Fed Up with Lack of Respect!
- [Video] Careful with Behavior Plans!
- [Video] Just Because a Student Loses Control Doesn’t Mean I Do!
- [Video] Teaching new skills to an upset student
- [Video] Managing the behavior of the kid who yells out
- [Video] Another reason I avoid sending kids to the office.
- [Video] Behavior: are you rewarding tantrums?
- [Video] Disrespectful Little Monster?
- [Video] SEL and Why I Love Cafeteria Duty
- [Video] My Outrageous Antics to Get My Class Back On Track
- [Video] Youngsters and Saying Excuse Me
- [Video] Back Talk? Or Power Struggle?
- [Video] Behavior: Are Kids Refusing?
- [Video] The F-Word in School?
- [Video] Behavior & SEL: Self-Management
- [Video] High Schoolers Not Turning in Homework?
- [Video] Kids with one-to-one paras still need to be taught skills
- [Video] Motivating Timmy who never does ANYTHING in school
- [Video] How do I choose which behavior to target first?
- [Video] How Many Times Do I Have to Say NO!!!
- [Video] Amazing DECREASE in Behaviors, Bullying…
- [Video] Talking Back But Still Complying?
- [Video] Is Punishment Needed?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Rewarded for Bad Behavior?
- [Video] Take Kids OUTSIDE, Remote or In-Person
- [Video] Teach Anxiety Management for the Real World
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Rewards as Motivation?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Stealing Food & Throwing Tantrums?
- [Video] When Every Kid Has a Water Bottle | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] When Transitions Cause Dysregulation | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Unruly Kids and Traumatized Kids NEED Classroom Jobs
- [Video] Behavior: When a Lesson Tanks!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Transitioning After Lunch and Recess
- [Video] Highly Anxious Kids | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] I HATE Sending Kids to the Office!
- [Video] Behaviors and Teacher’s Emotions
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Constantly Fidgeting and Making Noises During Class?
- [Video] Do you use “the wall” to manage recess behavior?
- [Video] Behavior: The Best Way to Handle Phones in Class
- [Video] Don’t Get Derailed by Swearing!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Behaviors Behind My Back!
- [Video] Behavior: the kid who keeps running out of class
- [Video] Behavior? Sometimes We Just Have to Walk Over…
- [Video] My Advice on Cafeteria Duty
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “I Dream of Changing Careers!”
- [Video] Kid Refusing to Work in Your Class?
- [Video] Kids ‘Forgetting’ Homework?| Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Don’t Assume Kids Know How to Change Activities! They Don’t!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Advice for Substitute Teachers?
- [Video] Behavior: do you send kids to the wall at recess?
- [Video] 1 in 8 Kids Are Living in Trauma or Abuse
- [Video] The Adults ARE the School Culture!
- [Video] Don’t over protect from failing
- [Video] Working with mean girls and their targets
- [Video] Is “refusal” the most common behavior in your class?
- [Video] Behavior: re-entry after School Suspension
- [Video] Mean What You Say
- [Video] Talking Out Is Disruptive!
- [Video] This Kid Can’t Keep It Together!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: HEY! My Hand Is Up!
- [Video] Behavior: why is teaching ‘everybody is a winner’ a problem?
- [Video] Reconnect After Consequences!
- [Video] My Favorite Behavior Management When I Get My Buttons Pushed
- [Video] Teach 3 Steps to Perseverance
- [Video] Social skills: compliments
- [Video] How to handle an angry student.
- [Video] Sometimes YOU Need a Quick Respite
- [Video] Cheating and Lying?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Out of Control Behavior?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Telling a Kid to Stop Immediately
- [Video] Asperger’s and My Son
- [Video] Behavior & SEL: Self-Awareness
- [Video] “Should Be” vs Reality
- [Video] How I Do Observations
- [Video] Regulating Yourself When a Kid Swears at You
- [Video] Managing avoidance behavior–bathroom passes
- [Video] Lying in school—one way to handle it
- [Video] Should we pay them to behave?
- [Video] Insisting on Eye Contact?
- [Video] How to Deal with Unpredictable Social Interactions
- [Video] When We Don’t Belong, We Won’t Participate
- [Video] My Way or the Highway!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Too Rigid? Too Wishy Washy?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Only Teacher Enforcing Dress Code?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Are You Letting Kids Misbehave By Not Responding?
- [Video] Polly Bath — Behavior Consultant and Speaker
- [Video] It’s Their Fault. NOT MINE!
- [Video] “I’m Autistic” vs. “I Have Autism.”
- [Video] Be Silent in Line!
- [Video] Student Flips Their Lid!
- [Video] When Kids Start to Ramp Up | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior: Maximize the Relationship
- [Video] Hitting You Emotionally?
- [Video] Generational Differences are Huge! | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior: don’t tax attention spans
- [Video] Freely GIVE Attention to the Attention Seeker – Unconditionally
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Getting Kids to Do Group Activities
- [Video] Don’t Stuff Big Emotions!
- [Video] Get Out of Your Room!
- [Video] A child’s “right” doesn’t make his response correct
- [Video] Are we teaching our school’s values to students?
- [Video] Develop a menu of consequences for your own classroom
- [Video] Do I assume kids DO or DON’T have behavior skills?
- [Video] Got a Controlling Student?
- [Video] You Can’t Control Their Home Lives and It Doesn’t Matter!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Can’t Handle Downtime
- [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Aren’t Ready for High School!
- [Video] Did They Just Do That!?!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Consequences Not Working?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kid with a Difficult Home Life?
- [Video] What’s the Difference Between Swearing in the Hall and Swearing AT Someone?
- [Video] Behavior Management: Don’t Use These 3 Words
- [Video] Kids Don’t Know the Value of Being Bored!
- [Video] Vague Behavior Descriptions Are Worthless
- [Video] Whole Class Having a Meltdown?
- [Video] Teach Kids How to Handle Anger and Frustration
- [Video] A Social Emotional Mess…?
- [Video] How I Change Behavior
- [Video] Ask Polly: Heads Buried in Phones?
- [Video] Behavior: when they comply AND sigh
- [Video] We learn coping skills in a diverse classroom
- [Video] Why I don’t call a behavior “inappropriate” or “unacceptable”
- [Video] How I Ride Out a Tantrum
- [Video] Ask Polly: Appalling Language!
- [Video] Management Plans vs. Intervention Plans?
- [Video] Getting an Off-Task Edgy Kid Back on Task
- [Video] Every Behavior Has a PURPOSE!
- [Video] Covid-19: Time Outs at Home and School
- [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Disrespectful to Paras?
- [Video] Do Kids Respect Us?
- [Video] Video: do not argue with students
- [Video] What is Co-Teaching when you boil it down?
- [Video] Why I don’t like to send kids out of my class.
- [Video] Behavior: consequence of over-rewarding
- [Video] Kids with Fine Motor Deficits Get FRUSTRATED!
- [Video] Safety Issues at Recess?
- [Video] Late to Class…Again!
- [Video] In Control or Outta Control?
- [Video] When We Get Behaviors from ‘Littles’…
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Student Hates You?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Taking Away ‘Specials’
- [Video] Do You Hate Enforcing School Rules?
- [Video] Behavior & SEL: Decision-Making
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Tier 2 Behaviors?
- [Video] When Kids Are Rude and Uncooperative | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Instead of canceling school events for behavior…
- [Video] Does taking away recess work?
- [Video] How an Automatic Thought can totally rule your brain
- [Video] Most Detentions are a Waste, But Not MINE
- [Video] Consistent Learning Shutdown?
- [Video] School Values Start with Adults
- [Video] Behaviors & Blaming Others?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Lying About Homework?
- [Video] What to Do When Little Aren’t Ready for School | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Don’t Make Kids Earn What In Fact They Need!
- [Blog] The Boy Who Threw a Book at My Head
- [Video] Stop Making Kids Apologize!
- [Video] Consistency SOLVES Behavior Problems
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Teaching Chatty, Arguing Kids
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Student Management Coach?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kid Denies Being Mean to Classmates?
- [Video] Behavior: showing respect for authority
- [Video] Do I Keep Control or Lose Control?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Lying in Kindergarten?
- [Video] Keeping Your Poker Face Even When A Kid Gets to You
- [Video] Partner Up with Parents Early
- [Video] Behavior: my cell phone rule in class
- [Video] Behavior management: manage vs. change
- [Video] What is the REAL problem when a student violates the dress code?
- [Video] I Manage Behavior with 3-Word Scripts!
- [Video] Behavior: Inappropriate? Unacceptable?
- [Video] Annoying Behaviors and Power Struggles
- [Video] When Kids Can’t Handle Discomfort | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Blog] Watching an emotional disability in action
- [Video] What’s BEHIND a Student’s Anger?
- [Video] Do I Let Friends Sit Together in Class?
- [Video] We Can’t “Fix” Kids
- [Video] My role with the kid who plays video games all night?
- [Video] Behavior: avoid winter apparel meltdowns in little kids
- [Video] Behavior: who are authority figures?
- [Video] You Do NOT Have to Respond IMMEDIATELY
- [Video] Ignore a Behavior? Part 2
- [Video] How to Make ISS Work!
- [Video] Being a Good Listener is Hard
- [Video] Don’t Be So Quick To Run Interference!
- [Video] Kids Late to Class? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Do you teach your school mission statement?
- [Video] One kid’s description of curriculum delivery that wasn’t working.
- [Video] Do you know why the school bus driver is such an important person?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Thank Kids for Good Behavior?
- [Blog] How I lost control of my class by asking the wrong question.
- [Video] Behavior: Breaking Classroom Rules?
- [Video] Little Behavior? What I Do.
- [Video] Neither Praise Nor Punishment Work for All Kids
- [Video] Calling a Kid “Your Kid” or “My Kid” Should Not Be Allowed
- [Video] Time Out For Preschoolers?
- [Video] Behavior: authority issues
- [Video] Disruptive Behavior?
- [Video] Ignore a Behavior? Part 1
- [Video] But I Teach My Subject, NOT Behavior!!!!
- [Video] Thanks Covid-19: We ALL have Tier 2 behaviors now!
- [Video] Teach Brain Health!
- [Video] Give Kids the Gift of Consistency
- [Video] State behavior expectations in the positive
- [Video] School behavior: reforming your discipline code
- [Video] When a student tries to bait me…
- [Video] Behavior: management PLUS intervention equals change
- [Video] Disruption! Refusal!
- [Video] Say It and Keep Moving!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Off Topic Questions During Class?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: You’re a Teacher Not a Buddy
- [Blog] Earning the trust of a rough and scary high schooler.
- [Video] Cutting in Line at Recess?
- [Video] Getting a Distracted Class Back on Track
- [Video] Emotions Trump Logic
- [Video] Behavior & SEL: Relationship Skills
- [Video] The Cure for Running in the Hall
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Behaviors Causing Teachers to Burnout?
- [Video] Those Kids Who Don’t Respond!
- [Video] Not Engaged & In Trouble?
- [Video] Student with Autism Not Showing Their Math Work?
- [Video] Before I Open My Mouth | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Do you want a behavior plan to work? Stick to it!
- [Video] Classroom behavior: how ‘helping’ can provoke behaviors
- [Video] Don’t forget, behavior can erupt because of a cognitive disability
- [Video] Don’t Just Kick Me Out of Class
- [Video] When a Kid BLURTS OUT!
- [Video] Create a “Culture Calendar”
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Work Before Fun?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Prompts to Get Kids to Listen?
- [Video] Don’t Give up Your Power!
- [Video] What You Can Do When Kids Don’t Care | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Blog] Dahlia’s Out-of-Control School Behavior: Getting a Reluctant Mom Involved
- [Video] Is a Behavior Violating Community?
- [Video] Behavior: can you name the 4 causes of anger?
- [Video] A Kid is Getting Upset – Are YOU?
- [Video] I Did NOT Send Kids Out of My Class
- [Video] A Messy Classroom is a Red Flag You’re Not Teaching Self-Regulation
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Tardy All the Time?
- [Video] Why Would a Kid WANT a Lunch Detention?
- [Video] One-to-one paras are not personal assistants
- [Video] Avoid behaviors: a tip for transitioning
- [Video] Do you require students to make eye contact?
- [Video] Behavior: do you use rewards poorly?
- [Video] Distractions? Sometimes I Go With It!
- [Video] Changing Our Interventions for Extreme Behaviors
- [Video] Ask Polly: Violence in High Schools
- [Video] Ask Polly: Standing In Line Quietly
- [Blog] Holding the Door: A High School Boy Learns the Hard Way
- [Video] Start the Year Strong, STAY Strong!
- [Video] Intro to New Series on ‘Disregulation’
- [Video] How to Put SEL into Academic Lesson Plans
- [Video] Ask Polly: How Do I Handle Tantrums?
- [Video] If Kids Know Talk Time Is Coming, They Will Pay More Attention During Instruction
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: SEL? Curriculum?
- [Video] Disrespect is a Behavior to Manage
- [Video] Ask Polly: Shocking Speech
- [Video] Strengthen Tier 1 Behaviors
- [Video] When do rewards work?
- [Video] How to avoid behaviors when a kid needs tutoring
- [Video] Why you should get down there on the playground
- [Blog] Why is “never assume” my first rule of behavior management?
- [Video] “Voices Off” Makes My Teeth Itch
- [Video] Ask Polly: How To Avoid Power Struggles
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Teach Those Social Skills!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids STILL Being Disruptive?
- [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Can’t Handle Play
- [Video] Autism and Recess
- [Video] It Is So Easy to Misuse Breaks in a Behavior Plan
- [Video] Lunch is a Social Event!
- [Video] How to measure a child’s behavior
- [Video] Behavior & preferential seating: think outside the box
- [Video] What’s behind an angry student’s behavior in your classroom?
- [Video] Behavior: Consequences That Make Sense
- [Video] When I Like Consequences
- [Video] When a Reward System Breaks Down
- [Video] Tell Kids to Take Back Control
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Assessing SEL Skills in Your School?
- [Blog] Getting Billy to Yes from No, No, NO!
- [Video] Do you use questions to manage behavior?
- [Video] Behavior & SEL: Social Awareness
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Defeated by Rudeness and Disrespect?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Talking with Parents?
- [Video] Train the Brain to Focus | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] TELL Them WHAT To Do.
- [Video] Teach REAL Apologizing, Not FAKE Apologizing
- [Video] What SEL Skills Are Needed to Access That Lesson?
- [Video] Teach the Do’s and Don’ts of Apologies
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Won’t Participate?
- [Video] My No-Nonsense Response to Lying | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Don’t Call it “Behavior Program” – Why?
- [Video] Struggling with ‘Littles’ and Learning? (cute story alert!)
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Letting Students Sit in Groups?
- [Video] Social skills: ‘scuse me
- [Video] Behaviors: too many bathroom breaks?
- [Video] Does teaching little kids on the carpet invite behavior problems?
- [Video] Behavior: Chatty Class?
- [Video] Nothing Working? Do This!
- [Video] Angry Outbursts!
- [Blog] How you can avoid power struggles with your students
- [Video] The 4th rule in my classroom: NO
- [Video] The Problems You Cause When You Let School Rules Slide
- [Video] Do Kids WANT to be in School?
- [Video] When Kids Can’t Reflect on Their Behavior | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Consequence: Saying Sorry
- [Video] If I Don’t Have the Skills Already, Punishment Won’t Work
- [Video] Behaviors Are Symptoms of Skill Deficits
- [Video] Culture of Adults Dictates Culture of Kids!
- [Video] Behavior: don’t exit a kid if you can teach around them
- [Video] How to meet oppositional defiance with a consistent limit…
- [Video] What does consistent behavior management look like?
- [Video] When A Kid Who Has Been Failing Makes A Breakthrough
- [Video] Motivating the Remote Learner (confession at the end!)
- [Video] Are Your Students Unraveling?
- [Video] Loss of Community in Schools?
- [Blog] Don’t Take the Bait*
- [Video] Behavior Management Versus Behavior Intervention
- [Video] Ask Polly: How Do I Settle Kids After Lunch and Recess?
- [Video] How You Can Help Highly Dysregulated Little Kids | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Don’t Use Rewards with a Manipulator!!!
- [Video] I’ll Do Anything to Get My Class Back on Track
- [Video] Disrespect is Personal
- [Video] Timing MATTERS When Giving a Detention!
- [Video] Behavior: can I sit with my friends?
- [Video] Escalating Kid? (Part 2)
- [Video] Bring Kids and Adults Together with a Culture Calendar
- [Video] Teaching Self-Help Skills to Little Kids
- [Video] Power Struggles and Control
- [Video] Inconsistency Breaks School Culture!
- [Video] Behavior: teach kids to control their responses
- [Video] Avoid behaviors: move desks to fit tasks
- [Video] A Quick Little Way to Intercept a Behavior Escalation
- [Video] Disruptions Due To Talking Out?
- [Video] Don’t Overuse “Be Safe!”
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Returning from the Office?
- [Video] Being Able to Compete is a Skill and Kids Don’t Have It!
- [Video] Coronavirus: What Will Kids Remember About School? (personal story at end!)
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Frustrated with Lunch Duty?
- [Video] Motivate with Short Successes
- [Video] Start the Day with Play
- [Video] Kids Didn’t Used to Do This!
- [Video] Advice for parents in teacher meeting
- [Video] Behavior: clowning behind your back
- [Video] Teacher presence in the hallway changes behavior and school climate.
- [Video] All the Ways We Reinforce Attention Seeking
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Other Kids Interrupting One-on-One Time?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Running In School Suspension
- [Video] Attention? Avoidance? Control?
- [Video] Thrown Out of Class and Hopping Mad
- [Video] Behaviors? Embed SEL!
- [Video] Sometimes a Kid with Autism Is Just Seeking a Little Control
- [Video] Recess is Not a Waste of Time | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Do you improve behavior by teaching delayed gratification?
- [Video] Foul Language in the Lunchroom? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Take a Breath, Calm Yourself, THEN Respond
- [Video] It’s Extremely Stressful: Don’t Burn Out
- [Video] Social skills: teach the meaning behind an apology
- [Video] Behavior: blurting out answers
- [Video] When It Seems Like Every Behavior is Disrespectful…
- [Video] Behavior: define responsibility in kid-speak
- [Video] I Did a Stupid Thing as a Kid! Why?
- [Video] Are Kids Reacting Before Thinking?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Hitting? Spitting? HELP!!!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Go to the Principal’s Office?
- [Video] Self-Regulating: Teach Kids How!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Helping Angry Youngsters?
- [Video] Switch Time Builds Community
- [Video] There Are Good Detentions and Bad Detentions
- [Video] Limits HELP Chaotic Kids
- [Video] Riding It Out When a Kid is Tantruming
- [Video] Behavior: help stabilize a child by setting limits
- [Video] Solving the locker-during-class problem
- [Video] The kid who pushes you away
- [Video] 2 Ways to focus with ADHD
- [Video] Masks & Reading Facial Expressions
- [Video] Ask Polly: Post-Pandemic Problems?
- [Video] Ask Polly: Encourage Kids Who Don’t Have Behaviors?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kid Making Demands?
- [Video] Negotiate? Maybe.
- [Video] Relationships Make or Break Behavior
- [Video] Bad Advice on How to Treat People
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: SWEARING $%@!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Logical Consequences?
- [Video] What does a great Behavior Support Team do?
- [Video] Overcoming Inconsistency and Unpredictability
- [Video] Behavior: are you reading non-verbal cues?
- [Video] Behavior: teach ’em GROUP skills
- [Video] Good Consequences Are Connected to the ‘Offense’
- [Video] Describe the 4 Most Common School Behaviors
- [Video] Ask Polly: Suddenly the Middle School Bell Rings!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Social Media Drama!
- [Video] 16 yo ADHD equals 11 yo developmentally
- [Video] Does a kid with emotional disability have control over behavior?
- [Video] Does home behavior DICTATE school behavior?
- [Video] Teach Self-Regulation in 3 Steps
- [Video] Consistent Rules Improve Behaviors
- [Video] This is How We Can Turn Tier 2 Behavior Around!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Refusal To Join Morning Circle
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Explaining a Student’s Accommodation?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids LOUD at Lunch?
- [Video] Want to change difficult behavior? Be consistent and predictable.
- [Video] Don’t Get into a Power Struggle When a Student Interrupts You.
- [Video] Ask Polly: Teens Mocking Teachers?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Am I Contributing to a Kid’s Anxiety?
- [Video] Use In-School Suspension as a Tier 2 intervention
- [Video] Trauma Often Looks Like ADHD in Our Students
- [Video] Here’s a Great Consequence for Violating Acceptable Use Policy!
- [Video] Attention Seeking Behavior?
- [Video] What’s Driving This Behavior?
- [Video] Behavior: when to say yes, when to say no
- [Video] Get away from me, I’ll do it myself.
- [Video] Behavior expectations: the power of repeating
- [Video] Help a Kid Get Organized and Their Behaviors WILL Improve
- [Video] WHY Is That Behavior Inappropriate???
- [Video] Behavior: I’m Not Doing This!
- [Video] Can Kids Solve Their Problems?
- [Video] How Do You Define Lying?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Playing in the Bathroom?
- [Video] Consequences That Change Student Behavior | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Kids Didn’t Used to Do This!
- [Video] Short Detentions? VERY Short.
- [Video] My Real Life Experience with a Difficult Student
- [Video] Behavior: stop, think, process!
- [Video] Behavior: teach skills so they don’t seek avoidance
- [Video] Emotional disturbance in the classroom: don’t give up on Bobby
- [Video] DISTRACTIONS, Not Focus, is the ADHD Issue
- [Video] Rock & Change Your Whole Building!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Dress Code in High School?
- [Video] Culture Eats Strategy
- [Video] Are You Angry?
- [Video] Squabbling?
- [Video] One Teacher Changed a Whole School’s Culture | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] When Rewards Go Wrong | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior prevention: teach how to ask questions
- [Video] Don’t Ask…TELL!!!
- [Video] How to stay in control with a young defiant student
- [Video] Switch Time is Fun
- [Video] Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in 2020-21
- [Video] The Problem with Too Many Choices
- [Video] Change Your Perspective on THAT Kid!
- [Video] Skills for Helping Highly Dysregulated Adolescents | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior: how to make sure you understand
- [Video] Parent-teacher conference: connecting with a reluctant parent
- [Video] Behavior, Play, and Recess Duty
- [Video] I Don’t Like to Use Screen Time as a Reward
- [Video] Behaviors: Disrespect or Refusal?
- [Video] Is a Kid Getting to You?
- [Video] They Did That ON PURPOSE!
- [Video] Bus Drivers: Welcome Each Kid!
- [Video] What Do You Do When Your Consequence Backfires?
- [Video] When a Kid Swears and Slams the Door…
- [Video] Behavior: I Gotta Belong!
- [Video] BE PREDICTABLE in Times of Uncertainty
- [Video] Ask Polly: High School Apathy
- [Video] Kids Not Doing Well on Tests?
- [Video] Behaviors and Hands-on Math?!?
- [Video] Classroom behavior: hand out your own consequences
- [Video] Classroom management: when a kid’s home life is awful
- [Video] Paras & Aides: What Your Job Is and Isn’t (imho)!
- [Video] Are Little Kids Being Disrespectful?
- [Video] What is Resiliency?
- [Video] Students from tough homes can behave in your class
- [Video] Behavior: make In-School Suspension WORK!
- [Video] DO NOT Give Everyone a Trophy!!!
- [Video] WHAT Is the Behavior?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Too Little SEL to Get SEL?
- [Video] Do you make criss-cross applesauce a behavior issue?
- [Video] Suspension Repeaters?
- [Video] Teach Kids to Put Space Between Impulse and Action
- [Video] No Relationships? No Rigor!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Are Breaks Making it Difficult for Kids to Settle Down?
- [Video] Can You Motivate Kids with Rewards or Punishment? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Should we be teaching kids everyone is a winner?
- [Video] Wonder if a Kid is NOT SORRY?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Call the Office for Behavior?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: I’ve Got a Runner!
- [Video] Snarky Kids | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] How I Avoid Arguments with Students
- [Video] SAFE is Now a Confusing Word to Kids!!!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Is Swearing the New Norm?
- [Video] An Easy Way to Handle Tattletaling
- [Video] Control? Power Struggle?
- [Video] Don’t Overuse the Term “Be Safe”
- [Video] Behavior management: hardwired behaviors
- [Video] The best way to target a behavior you want to change
- [Video] Best Definition of Recess Duty Ever!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Consequence or Not?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Is Setting Goals Helpful or Hurtful?
- [Video] How to Fix Impatient Kids (and Have Fun Doing it)
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Building LOTS of Relationships!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Heated Class Discussions?
- [Video] Self-Regulation: A Whole School Approach
- [Video] Is ‘Camera Off’ Refusal?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: How Long Can I Wait Before Responding to a Behavior?
- [Video] Rewarding TARDY?
- [Video] Behavior management: build rapport with validation
- [Video] School transition: why I start kids WAY early
- [Video] Behavior and Basic Tier 1
- [Video] But My Mom Lets Me Swear At Home
- [Video] Ask Polly: Detention for Disruption?
- [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Not Understanding Directions?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Behaviors and Saying “Thank You”
- [Video] When Is Break Time a Bad Idea in a Behavior Plan?
- [Video] Attention-Seeking Misbehavior and My Unusual Response
- [Video] Trauma Blocks Imagination!!!
- [Video] Adolescents Need Control — Show Them How
- [Video] SEL and Standing in Line
- [Video] Behavior: Kid Escalating?
- [Video] Don’t Belong? Harder to Learn.
- [Video] Ask Polly: Attention Seeking!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Vaping in the Bathroom?
- [Video] Recess behavior: the wall doesn’t teach anything
- [Video] Classroom management: recognize behaviors as symptoms
- [Video] A Difficult Parent Probably Had a Difficult Time in School Themselves
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Behaviors in Electives?
- [Video] Build Kids’ Confidence When You Take Attendance
- [Video] Ask Polly: Cussing In Elementary School
- [Video] Are You Making a Difference?
- [Video] If I’m Losing the Class I Hit the RESTART Button
- [Video] Ask Polly: High School Behavior and the Office
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Egging on Bad Behaviors?
- [Video] When Parents Go Over Your Head | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Put More Play in Your Teaching to Get Better Results!
- [Video] You Can Teach Kids Why They’re Getting Angry
- [Video] Lunch Detention as a Logical Consequence?
- [Video] Behavior management: consequences teach skills
- [Video] Classroom management: how I respond to an attention seeker
- [Video] Behavior? Stop and Think!
- [Video] Co-Regulate with ‘Littles’
- [Video] Do you use Silent Lunch, or do you teach lunchtime skills?
- [Video] Classroom management: I establish trust before rigor!
- [Video] A Five-Year Old Was Being Teased…
- [Video] Duties Are An Opportunity to Teach Social Skills
- [Video] Be Consistent with School Rules!
- [Video] Don’t Waste In-School Suspension
- [Video] Change Behaviors with Your Detentions
- [Video] Curriculum, School Store, & Behavior
- [Video] Kids Are Different These Days | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Don’t Let Self-Regulation Slide and Expect Kids to Be Ready to Learn
- [Video] Play Can Enhance Your Curriculum
- [Video] The Power of Experiencing Community!
- [Video] Teaching Respect the Wrong Way?
- [Video] De-escalating behavior: LISTEN
- [Video] School climate: look up and say hello in the hall
- [Video] I Didn’t Do Anything!
- [Video] Inviting Environment?
- [Video] Behavior: teach organization!
- [Video] Memory Problems Can Cause Behavior Problems
- [Video] Self-Regulation: The Everyday Classroom
- [Video] Behavior and Respect – Don’t Be Confusing!
- [Video] Ideas for Avoiding Burnout | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behaviors Have REASONS
- [Video] Timers and Self-regulation
- [Video] Behavior management: consistency with building rules
- [Video] Classroom management – why a boy kept throwing his book at me
- [Video] When NOT to Fight Distractions, ‘Cause You’ll Never Win
- [Video] Parent Connections Improving with Virtual Learning?
- [Video] Your Response to A Behavior Can Make It Better or Worse
- [Video] Manage Behaviors & Teach Skills
- [Video] Are You Causing a Power Struggle?
- [Video] Improve Behavior With Classroom Setup
- [Video] Kid Explodes into a Tantrum?
- [Video] Is Cell Phone Use in Class Driving You Crazy?
- [Video] Did A Kid Trash Your Room?
- [Video] How Do Kids Learn to Behave Differently?
- [Video] “Don’t Wanna be Here!”
- [Video] Behavior: are you modeling what you want?
- [Video] Wishy-Washy Rules Make Behaviors WORSE
- [Video] The 5 Causes of Behaviors
- [Video] Disorganization Is Not Bad Behavior!
- [Video] Help Kids Focus!
- [Video] Use in-school suspension to teach skills
- [Video] Classroom management – are you sure preferential seating is always in the front?
- [Video] Poor Conversation Skills Can LOOK Like Behavior Problems
- [Video] Behavior: Tattling on the Playground?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Behavior & Staff Inconsistency?
- [Video] Losing Your Cool?
- [Video] Dealing With a Chair Thrower?
- [Video] HOW You Teach Affects Behavior and Learning
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kid Lying and Making Up Stories?
- [Video] Consequences vs. Punishments vs. Discipline | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Behavior: Trauma at Home & Aggression in School
- [Video] Prevent Behaviors from Becoming Safety Issues
- [Video] Too Many Suspensions? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Solve Running in the Hall for the Rest of the Year!
- [Video] Classroom management: deal with distractions to help kids focus
- [Video] Classroom management – if behaviors aren’t getting better, make a change
- [Video] When Rewards Do and Don’t Work
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Is All-School Community Possible?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Turning Kids Against Me
- [Video] What should we do when there is a physical altercation between students?
- [Video] Behavior: Distractions in Desk?
- [Video] THINK Before Responding!!!
- [Video] Taking Back Control When Behavior Goes TOO FAR!
- [Video] A Different Response to RUDE %#$@!!!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: ‘Littles’ and Self-Regulating
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “I’m Worried About My Student!”
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Talking and Fiddling?
- [Video] Does Everything We Teach Have a Purpose?
- [Video] My Student Kept Having an Anxiety Attack!
- [Video] Unlock More MOTIVATION for Remote Learning (another personal confession at the end!)
- [Video] Behavior: autism & social skills
- [Video] Behavior: don’t over-reward
- [Video] Classroom management – keep a little behavior from becoming a big one
- [Video] The Calm Brain is a Better Performing Brain
- [Video] Self-Regulation: Teaching the Individual
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Logical Consequences?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Want Choices for Everything
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “My Parents Said I Could Hit Back!”
- [Video] Behavior: what is the impact of not belonging?
- [Video] Behavior: Are You SORRY?
- [Video] Polly Bath’s Enhanced In-School Suspension
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Not Stopping IMMEDIATELY?
- [Video] Behavior: are you over-accommodating?
- [Video] Behavior management: BUILD a child’s confidence
- [Video] Classroom management – the power of observation
- [Video] “Talk Time” in the remote classroom?
- [Video] Ask Polly: No School Spirit?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “I get so much push back!”
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Using Inappropriate Humor to get Attention?
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Autism and Refusal
- [Video] Behavior: memory issues
- [Video] Teach kids how to de-escalate themselves!
- [Video] Better Behavior and Talk Time!
- [Video] Yes, Kids Can Behave Differently at School Than at Home
- [Video] Behavior Plan for Eighty-Five Teachers?
- [Video] Behavior: I’m Gonna Get in Trouble If I Do That!
- [Video] Ask Polly: My 7th Graders Are So Rude to Me!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Behavior Management Isn’t Working Anymore!
- [Video] Great Feedback for Littles?
- [Video] Behavior: kid sleeping in class?
- [Video] Help kids with short-term memory issues not to fall behind
- [Video] Too Much Praise and Reward Will Backfire
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Consequence for Refusing?
- [Video] When Kids Can’t Make a Decision | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Unifix Cubes – Toys or Tools?
- [Video] In-School Suspension is NOT a Holding Tank!
- [Video] If You’re Asking Them to Work in Groups, YOU BETTER TEACH ‘EM HOW!!!
- [Video] Behavior: 14 Things Kids Can’t Handle
- [Video] Ask Polly: A Lot of Bus Behaviors?
- [Video] A Kid Refuses to Remove Their Hood?
- [Video] Don’t Ban! Teach Skills!
- [Video] Ask Polly: Behavior At Home vs. School
- [Video] General George Patton or Mr. Rogers
- [Video] Is It Actually a Lack of Motivation?
- [Video] Tell Don’t Ask!
- [Video] It is okay to lose
- [Video] How “thank you” can trigger a power struggle
- [Video] Behavior: why I hate to send kids out of class
- [Video] Becoming an Authority Figure for Kids with No Authority at Home
- [Video] Reduce Behaviors with “Talk Time”
- [Video] Kids Texting? Talking?
- [Video] Sleeping in Class?
- [Video] Not Belonging Will CAUSE Behaviors
- [Video] Kids Need Us to Define Behavior Objectively and Precisely
- [Video] Are You Sure You’re Teaching Respect?
- [Video] Social Skills Impact Behavior!
- [Video] Behavior: DON’T react to eye rolls and muttering!
- [Video] Don’t Ignore. Control.
- [Video] Strong Feelings in the Classroom?
- [Video] How I Enliven SEL for Olders with Little Kids’ Books
- [Video] Trauma in Kids Shuts Down Imagination
- [Video] Let’s Talk Culture Calendar
- [Video] Preventing Escalation!
- [Video] I Have Just Four Classroom Rules | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] Hung up on criss-cross applesauce?
- [Video] Classroom behavior: our biggest ADHD mistake
- [Video] Reduce behaviors by improving curriculum delivery
- [Video] Do Your Kids Know What Authority Means?
- [Video] If It’s Always the Same Kids Then What You’re Doing Isn’t Working
- [Video] Surviving Substitute Teaching!
- [Video] Can’t You Read the Room?
- [Video] How to Teach Kids to Pay Attention | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
- [Video] The First 6 Weeks of School!
- [Video] ‘Organization’ is a Skill, Not a Behavior!
- [Video] Behavior: school vs. home
- [Video] Using unconditional attention to teach social/emotional skills
- [Video] Let’s describe good behavior choices as well as poor ones
- [Video] The Problem with Power Struggles
- [Video] Covid-19 & Behavior: Using Common Language
- [Video] Playing is Important!
- [Video] The Teenage Brain is Different
- [Video] The Mistake We Make in Teaching Respect to Abused and Neglected Children.
- [Video] When a GREAT Lesson Plan Causes BEHAVIORS!!!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Can You Teach Respect?
- [Video] Behavior: save time by teaching skills!
- [Video] Why Is This Student So Angry?
- [Video] Play Is An Important Part of Learning
- [Video] Kids Learn Empathy from YOU!
- [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kindergartener Hitting, Spitting, and Throwing Things!
- [Video] Unraveling in After-School? | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
Polly Bath is a widely recognized behavior expert in New England schools and beyond. She consults to and trains administrators, teachers, and paraprofessionals on how to manage and change difficult school behavior. She has gained her reputation most especially by teaching educators how to change the difficult behaviors that have been the most resistant to change.
Her strategies are effective in the inclusive general education classroom as well as in special education settings. Her successful techniques come from her extensive experiences as a teacher of students with emotional and behavioral disorders, plus her extended work as the New England consulting associate of the late behavior legend Dr. Mike Mezzocchi.
Whether you are looking to change the behavior of a child, a classroom, or a school, Polly can help. She is known for her practical and inspiring work and her trademark humor.


