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Our Words Matter
Our students have experienced unprecedented changes in their daily routines and communities. The focused attention on racial injustice after George Floyd’s murder and calls for societal and governmental change at ...
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Supporting Students’ Self-Care Virtually
It’s important to practice self-care, but doing so on a regular basis can be challenging at the best of times! One way you can develop your own self-care practices, as ...
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2018 – The Responsive Classroom SEL Year in Review
It’s been another great year at Center for Responsive Schools! We are grateful for the opportunity to continue sharing the Responsive Classroom approach to Social-Emotional Learning with educators around the ...
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Setting a Vision for the Future
As the bustle of the after-school and after-work hours wound down for the night, I found my eight-year-old daughter in tears in her bedroom. She was hunched over her sketch ...
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Naming Students in Positive Ways
From your “Good morning” greeting to your “Good-bye” at the last bell, every school day gives you many opportunities to address students with words that give them an image of themselves as engaged and capable learners.
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From Teacher Talk to Student Voice
After completing the Responsive Classroom Elementary Core Course, Kristen, a fourth-grade teacher, committed to using more reinforcing language in daily student interactions. As a simple visual reminder, she created note ...
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Building a Joyful Foundation
I can remember my first days as a principal as if it were yesterday. The vividness of the memory is largely because my first days of being a principal were ...
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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 ...
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Changing a School Climate: How Responsive Classroom Helped

A little over a year ago, I became the principal at a school where discipline referrals and staff stress were at all-time highs. Change was clearly needed, and soon. I’d spent the previous eight years leading another school into becoming a safe, joyful learning community, thanks mainly to our use of the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching.

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The Power of Purposeful Assessment
Every educator had hoped to begin this school year in a more familiar fashion, but as the year kicks off, it is clear that we are still not even close ...
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Empowering Educators to Get to Know Their Students: A Conversation with Authors Andy Moral and Heather Young
Early in the school year, all educators are faced with the same important task: getting to know their new students. To learn some effective strategies for making connections with students ...
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Reactivate and Reground
During the past year, the pandemic has impacted both the way teachers deliver instruction as well as how students access information. The unexpected closure of schools across the country created ...
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Starting the Year Off with Joy
Each of these practices promotes active teaching over direct teaching: Rather than education being a one-way street in which a teacher lectures, learning becomes a collaboration between teacher and students. And if you’re looking for a way to get started with Responsive Classroom in your classroom, these practices are a great way to begin.
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