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Classroom Management & Discipline Classroom Organization First Weeks of School
Creating a Place for Learning
Have you ever been in a garden where every plant seems to be thriving, where the space is thoughtfully tended and the conditions are just right for growth? Classrooms, like ...
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Child & Adolescent Development
Know Your Students: Developmentally Responsive Planning
Knowing the students in your class happens in different ways for different teachers. A middle school teacher who sees 150 adolescents for one subject, 45 minutes a day will likely ...
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Child & Adolescent Development Positive Community SEL Skills
Restoring the Developmental Lens in K-12 Education
Children are complex, growing human beings—each on a unique developmental journey. In Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development Ages 4—14, Chip Wood reminds us that teaching is not just about managing ...
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Engaging Academics The Language of Learning
Stop and Think: Teaching Students to Reflect
As educators, we all want to help our students develop valuable lifelong skills, including the ability to think critically about their own work, truly know themselves and their learning styles, ...
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Classroom Management & Discipline Positive Community
Bullying Prevention: How Aware Are You? 5 Steps You Can Take
According to stopbullying.gov, between one in four and one in three U.S. students say they have experienced bullying at school. October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and this provides an ...
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First Weeks of School The First Day of School The First Weeks of School
Learning Names At the Start of the Year

Caltha Crowe retired in June after 35 years of teaching. Most recently, she taught third graders at King’s Highway Elementary School in Westport, Connecticut. She is a certified Responsive Classroom consulting teacher.

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Classroom Management & Discipline Classroom Organization
Child & Adolescent Developmental Traits by Age Chart

Simple signals for attention—whether visual (a raised hand) or auditory (a chime, rain stick, or other pleasant-sounding instrument)—are an essential classroom management tool.

When I was student teaching, one of my professors said he could tell if a teacher had good management skills by watching whether she could get her students’ attention whenever she needed it. This lesson stuck with me, and once I had my own classroom, the first thing I always modeled was how students should respond to my signals for attention.

By Katy Nault
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Families Positive Community Whole School Community
School-Home Communication Strategies
As educators, we know that communication between school and home is hugely important to a child’s success in school. When school leaders, teachers, and other school staff respect parents* and ...
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Child & Adolescent Development Child Development
Midyear Child Development Review: Adapting to Students
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 ...
By Emily Hemingway
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Your approach to teaching “We reduced our main office discipline referrals to zero after implementing the Responsive Classroom approach for two years.” Adrienne Kuchik – Executive Director of Schools, Indianapolis Public ...
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Classroom Management & Discipline Discipline Special Times in the Year
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 ...
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