Responding to behavior fairly and effectively: disruption, PBIS, restorative practice, and de-escalation.
Even in well-run classrooms, students act out.
Open workshop →WorkshopIt is easy to notice misbehavior and miss the dozens of students doing the right thing.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen harm happens, punishment asks what rule was broken and what the consequence is.
Open workshop →WorkshopMany behaviors that look like defiance are a student's stress response, not a choice.
Open workshop →WorkshopSuspensions and office referrals remove students from the learning they most need, and they fall unequally on some groups of students.
Open workshop →WorkshopAll behavior serves a purpose, usually to get something (attention, a thing, control) or to avoid something (a hard task, a situation).
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen a student pushes back and you push harder, you both lose, in front of an audience.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen a student makes a poor choice, the response matters.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen a student pushes your buttons, your reaction sets the course.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen a student is flooded by big feelings, they cannot learn or behave well until they calm down.
Open workshop →WorkshopThe goal of classroom management is not a room full of students controlled by the teacher, but students who can manage themselves.
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