I don’t remember the moment it dawned on me that I had unrealistic behavioral expectations. Maybe it was the second week of school when I realized the honeymoon phase was over. It might’ve been the moment my administration looked at my students in their “lines” and said, “You should be on Level 0 at all […]
PBIS
Putting the S in PBIS
Almost 26,000 schools across the U.S. are implementing Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS). A central characteristic of this Department of Education-funded initiative is customization. There is no one “right way” to implement PBIS and implementation is likely to differ across systems, schools and even individual classrooms. Intervention tiers are built around the principles of […]
Positive Reinforcement: When Do We Want It? NOW
While I realize that effective classroom management is essential to effective teaching and learning, I sometimes worry that we educators over-do it. Are we failing to inspire a basic desire to do the right thing? Do we really need to hand out prizes for making it to school every day and not acting like an […]