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Activities for Celebrating at the End of the School Year

Every member of your learning community—from students to educators to families—deserves recognition for the effort they put into this school year. Celebrating them (and yourself!) is a powerful way to end the year on a positive note, strengthen community bonds, and help students appreciate their progress while reinforcing their identities…
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May 26 2023

Elevating Student Voice in the School Library Program

Elevating student voice in a school library may seem unusual to anyone who imagines a library only as a quiet sanctuary. Today’s school libraries bustle with activity and are the hub and heart of the school community. A professionally staffed and funded school library has a direct impact on student…
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May 19 2023

Revisiting Your Professional Goals and Setting New Ones

As the end of the school year approaches, I hope you find yourself admiring the growth your students and classroom community have made since the fall. I hope, too, that you look at yourself with pride as you reflect on all you have learned, adjusted to, and created this school…
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May 12 2023

Dear Teacher, I Want You to Know . . .

As an SEL coach, Amy Isenhart is constantly inspired by all the ways educators positively impact the lives of students each day. In her reflective piece below, Amy writes from the perspective of a student to capture how meaningful this work is to students. When you welcome me with your…
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May 05 2023
Teaching Self-Assessment

Teaching Self-Assessment

Self-assessment helps students monitor and evaluate their own work and identify ways to improve their learning. Teaching self-assessment helps give our students the true gifts of education: both the recognition that they can grow and change and an innate desire to do so.  Self-Assessment Begins With Goal-Setting Self-assessment is closely…
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Apr 28 2023
Using Interactive Modeling for Academic Learning

Using Interactive Modeling for Academic Learning

Interactive Modeling is a straightforward and effective technique for showing students exactly how to meet expectations for any routine or skill that needs to be done in one specific way. You can use Interactive Modeling for school and classroom routines such as responding to a signal and walking in line,…
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Apr 21 2023

Teaching C.A.R.E.S. in an Elementary School Classroom

In addition to identifying a set of academic competencies, the core belief of Responsive Classroom lays out a set of social and emotional competencies that students need in order to be successful in and out of school. Those competencies—cooperation, assertiveness, responsibility, empathy, and self-control—are captured in the acronym C.A.R.E.S.  Incorporating…
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Apr 14 2023
Five Discipline Strategies That Preserve Dignity

Five Discipline Strategies That Preserve Dignity

The Responsive Classroom approach is based on building a positive community of engaged learners. In order to do so, it is essential to uphold the dignity of all students. It is hardest, but most necessary, to do this when a student misbehaves. There are five Responsive Classroom practices you can…
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Apr 07 2023

Discipline Strategies for the End of the Year

For students, spring is an energizing time of the school year. The days are getting longer and the weather is warming up, conjuring the possibilities of summer break. Students who are graduating are starting to prepare for their transition to a new school. It is a time of excitement and…
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Mar 31 2023

Be Persistent and Consistent: Five Strategies for Keeping Students on Track

Take a moment to pause and reflect on your students and their success in keeping on track academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally. What factors influence their success? The subject matter? The time of day? Is there consistency across the week? Are there a few students who need more support, or…
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Mar 24 2023

How to Use Role-Play to Support Collaborative Work

Our class is about to start a collaborative project. Everyone is excited and the room is buzzing with diverse ideas for how to tackle the project. However, this excitement can cause issues: when working in small groups, students can sometimes be too eager and drown out the thoughts and opinions…
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Mar 17 2023

How To Address Group Conflicts Using Class Meetings

As educators, we are accustomed to dealing with limit testing, challenging behaviors, and even, at times, outward defiance. While it is never easy to manage these moments of upheaval, we know it is a part of the normal childhood experience. All children will test limits in their natural process of…
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Mar 10 2023

Teaching Responsibility With Problem-Solving Conferences

Everyone makes mistakes; it is part of being human. Your students are inevitably going to make mistakes in the process of learning socially responsible ways to navigate challenges and express frustrations, disappointments, thoughts, and opinions. However, while mistakes are a natural part of the learning process, sometimes they can turn…
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Mar 03 2023

Navigating Challenging Middle School Behaviors in the Second Half of the Year

It’s the time of the year when middle school students are more comfortable with their learning community. They know what the expectations are. They know where their classes are. They are familiar with the flow of the school day. It’s also the time of year when I begin noticing challenging…
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Feb 24 2023

Strategies for Solving Thorny Behaviors

February is a good time to take stock of the strategies you use to address behavior issues in your classroom. The months you have already spent with your students have provided you with valuable knowledge about what behavior strategies will be most effective for them, while the months ahead give…
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Feb 17 2023

Six Tips for a Successful Midyear Check-In With Students!

Long breaks away from school offer students opportunities to relax and spend time with family and friends, but they can also make returning to school challenging. After winter break is an ideal time to help students reconnect with their focus and motivation by having them revisit their goals and set…
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Feb 10 2023

Maintaining a Climate of Inclusion and Equity With Morning Meeting and Responsive Advisory Meeting

February is the shortest month of the year, but for educators it can feel like the longest. There is a lot to get done in the second half of the year, and often students returning from winter break need to be retaught classroom rules, routines, and expectations. But there is…
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Feb 03 2023

Five Steps for Having Difficult Conversations With Parents

It’s midway through the school year and you notice one of your students has fallen into a pattern of missing work and struggling on tests and quizzes. You know it’s time to reach out to the student’s parents. It’s natural to feel anxious when calling home, especially to discuss an…
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Jan 27 2023

Five Steps for Responding to Midyear Misbehavior

It’s January, and you notice that over the break your students seem to have forgotten all the routines they had been practicing since the start of the school year. Students are acting disrespectfully toward each other. During discussions, classmates are calling out when others are talking. They are showing they…
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Jan 20 2023
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How To Use Positive Time-Out to Teach Students How to Calm Down and Regain Self-Control

How often have you either needed a break from a stressful moment or noticed your mind wandering and needed an opportunity to purposefully refocus yourself? What do you do in those moments? Now consider your students. What can they do in your classroom when they experience stress or need an…
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Jan 13 2023

Who Are Your Students Now? Revisiting Child Development in the Middle of the School Year

At the start of the school year, as new classroom communities are forming, teachers begin planning ways to connect and form relationships with new students. By the middle of the year, a lot has changed: students have established routines, friendships have formed, school assignments and projects are underway, and students…
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Jan 06 2023

Everything You Need to Know to Prepare Students for Winter Break

As winter break approaches, students tend to get distracted by the excitement of the holidays and the anticipation of vacation. As a result, they are often more restless, irritable, and exhausted than usual, and it can be difficult to keep them engaged and focused on learning. Returning from winter break…
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Dec 16 2022

How Logical Consequences Are Different From Punishment

A student doodles during class instead of completing their assignment. Classmates shove each other as they get in line for recess. Between periods, a group of students runs down the hall to get to class. A student talks over a teacher’s instructions. Do any, or perhaps all, of these situations…
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Dec 09 2022

Ways To Address Common Behavior Challenges That Pop Up Midyear

It’s a few months into the school year, and you may be noticing an increase in challenging student behaviors. Suddenly students are struggling to follow classroom rules that they learned at the beginning of the year. Some students are testing limits, both in their relationships with teachers as well as…
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Dec 02 2022

Improving Academic Outcomes Using the Responsive Classroom Approach

The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (often referred to as The Nation’s Report Card) was recently released. The results made clear that today’s students are struggling with both reading and math, as there were noticeable declines in both subjects compared to previous report cards.  How Social and Emotional…
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Nov 30 2022

How to Use Active Teaching to Increase Social Engagement in a Digital Classroom

In recent years, many middle school classrooms have shifted from using physical resources like textbooks and workbooks to digital learning platforms that students access with laptops or tablets. A digital curriculum provides a fantastic opportunity for rich explorations of content with embedded scaffolds and additional resources for extending learning; however,…
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Nov 18 2022

Responsive Classroom in High-Tech Classrooms: Common Questions Answered

Let’s face it—technology is changing the way students learn. With the increase of screen time in classrooms, it is imperative that we continue to teach to the whole child, bolstering their social skills and ensuring they are engaged with the academics they are being taught. Luckily for educators, Responsive Classroom…
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Nov 11 2022

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