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Study: “Authoritative,” Not “Authoritarian,” Classroom Management Works Best...
A couple of years ago, I wrote about what I thought was a pretty important study (see Parental Style Study Makes Sense For Teachers, Too). It found that parents who were authoritative — strict, but...
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“Q & A Collections: Classroom Management Advice”
Q & A Collections: Classroom Management Advice is my latest Education Week Teacher column. Links to all classroom management posts from the past four years can be found there. Here’s an excerpt...
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Harvard Business Review Publishes Nice Guide To Positive Classroom Management
Substitute the word “students” for “employees” and “teachers” for “bosses” and the Harvard Business Review article titled Why Compassion Is a Better Managerial Tactic than Toughness offers a pretty...
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My New Classroom Management Strategy: “How Are You Going To Use Your Power?”
© 2011 Frédéric BISSON, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio A teacher can never have too many positive classroom management strategies in one’s pocket (see My Best Posts On Classroom Management and Positive,...
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“How Can I Better A Better Teacher For You?”
As I’ve shared on numerous occasions (My Best Posts On Classroom Management), classroom management is a periodic challenge for me – I often teach “intervention” classes and/or classes where students...
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Second Statistic Of The Day: Food Stamps & Student Behavior
What happens when a family runs out of food stamps is a Washington Post article that is definitely worth reading. Here’s one finding in particular that struck me: I’ve certainly noticed that parts of...
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Harvard Business Review Publishes Excellent Classroom Management Formula
Earlier this year, the Harvard Business Review published a great article that could uses as a guide to effective classroom management (see Harvard Business Review Publishes Nice Guide To Positive...
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“Detour ‘Around the Danger Zones’ of Classroom Management”
Detour ‘Around the Danger Zones’ of Classroom Management is Part Two in my Education Week Teacher series. In it, Marcia Tate, Jenny Edwards, Patty O’Grady, and Ric Murry share their thoughts on...
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Guest Post: “Walk & Talks” Are Extremely Effective Way To Connect With...
Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the work of Jim Peterson, our school’s principal. You can see a video the Association of California School Administrators recently did about him here, and...
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Harvard Business Review Criticizes Trump’s Negotiating Skills & Provides...
Over the past few years, I’ve found the Harvard Business Review to be an unlikely source of consistently good classroom management advice (see links to their previous articles that I’ve blogged...
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“Positive Classroom Management Strategies – Part One”
Positive Classroom Management Strategies – Part One is my latest post at Education Week Teacher. It’s the first of a four-part series. Today, educators Bryan Harris, Marcia Imbeau, Pernille Ripp,...
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Another Excerpt From My New Book: “Why Viewing Classroom Management as a...
© 2008 José María Mateos, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Why Viewing Classroom Management as a Mystery Can Be Helpful is a short excerpt from my new book, and it’s appearing in Education Week. I’m adding...
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Options, Options, Options….
© 2009 Andy Piper, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve previously posted about Marvin Marshall’s great advice about always providing three options to students in a classroom management situation. As I said...
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Quote Of The Day: “Do” Is Better Than “Don’t”
I’ve previously written about how I apply research that shows using “positive-framed” messages instead of “loss-framed” ones. Here’s an excerpt of what I’ve written earlier about researchers learning:...
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Good Advice On “De-Escalating Power Struggles In The Classroom”
Power struggles in the classroom are bad news. And, to modify an old community organizing adage: “Sometimes the only worse thing than losing a power struggle is winning one.” Our School District puts...
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Ten-Minute Podcast: Vicki Davis Interviews Me About Classroom Management
Vicki Davis interviewed me for her new daily education podcast and the topic was classroom management. You can read more about it here, including downloading the transcript. I’ve embedded it below...
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Focusing On The Impact Classroom Disruptions Have On Others, Not On The...
As many teachers already know, one of the most effective responses we can make to classroom management problems is by saying: “I’m not feeling respected right now.” Assuming you have good relationships...
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Guest Post – Classroom Management: Redirecting without Escalating – Circling...
Editor’s Note: I’ve invited my colleague Phil Taylor to write a series of posts on “de-escalation.” You can see Part One in this series at Guest Post: Classroom Management – Redirecting without...
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Harvard Business Review Highlights Three Tried-And-True Classroom Management...
ractapopulous / Pixabay The Harvard Business Review often writes about strategies to use in business that can easily be applied in the classroom Today’s article, How to Persuade People to Change...
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New Study On What Happens When Teachers Tend To Act More Punitively Would Be...
Thanks to Cara Jackson, I learned about a new study titled Strictly Speaking: Examining Teacher Use of Punishment and Student Outcomes, and written by Stephen B. Holt, Katie Vinopal, Heasun Choi,...
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