A reader recently asked about including children with challenging behaviors in year-end celebrations. Should children with persistent behavior issues be allowed to participate in this type of celebration? The short answer is “yes” … Still, if you have a student with persistent behavior problems in your class, it may feel risky to hold a classroom or schoolwide learning celebration. Here are some suggestions to help you plan and structure successful end-of-year celebrations for groups that include students with challenging behaviors. [...]
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Margaret Wilson: There were so many times when you could have been drawn into power struggles with Sammy, but you resisted. How did you do that?
Caltha Crowe: It’s easy to get sucked into power struggles with children. Early in my teaching career it happened to me a lot. [...]
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A couple months ago I had the chance to read an advance copy of Caltha Crowe’s new book, Sammy and His Behavior Problems: Stories and Strategies from a Teacher’s Year, and I wrote about how much I loved it and learned from it in a previous post. Recently, Caltha and I talked about her experiences with Sammy for an article that will appear in the April 2010 issue of the Responsive Classroom newsletter. Today and tomorrow, I’m previewing parts of that interview [...]
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Last week I led the Responsive Classroom follow-up workshop, Responding to Misbehavior (we call it “RMB” for short), in Washington, D.C., and was treated to a great day of learning with a group of hard-working educators. They left with renewed vigor and a bulging toolkit to help them better manage their classrooms. Now I’m looking forward to March 12th, when I’ll present RMB again in Mahwah, New Jersey. [...]
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We sent our newest book off to the printer yesterday, on schedule to arrive at our warehouse before the end of March. So far, the advance reviews have been great! … You can get a taste of Sammy and His Behavior Problems: Stories and Strategies from a Teacher’s Year by reading an excerpt in the February 2010 Responsive Classroom Newsletter, or by reading the first chapter online. [...]
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We’re delighted to let you know that Responsive Classroom author Caltha Crowe has an article called “Teaching Students with Challenging Behavior” in the great new issue of Educational Leadership! ASCD, the publisher of Educational Leadership, has given us permission to let you read the article online [...]
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Caltha completes the story she began in Part Two by describing the problem-solving strategy she and Sammy agreed to try when either of them felt Sammy was starting to lose control. [...]
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In the first part of this three-part interview, Caltha Crowe said that knowing a child’s triggers could help with solving behavior problems. In Part 2, we asked for a specific example. [...]
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This week on Responsive, we’re featuring a three-part interview with Responsive Classroom author Caltha Crowe. In this first part, we asked Caltha to expand on what she said about getting to know students in the Responsive Classroom newsletter in August 2009. [...]
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Over on his Yardsticks blog yesterday, our friend and colleague Chip Wood wrote about that time that always comes around at some point early in the school year – when the “honeymoon period” ends and students start testing the rules. To prepare for this inevitable phase, Chip recommends:
… a book of lesson plans for social [...]
