One of the inevitable first-day-of-school tasks for elementary teachers (and many secondary teachers) is introducing the class rules. So it’s no wonder teacher-bloggers have taken up the topic this ...

Have you ever had a teacher that appears to dodge around their responsibilities as an instructor? In my experience, these types of people are the doctoral students too busy with their own work, the ...

In As a Rule, Forget About Rules, I asserted that most classroom disciplinary rules are unnecessary, which raises the question: What rules are necessary? And the answer, of course, is going to vary ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington is modifying the rules for how teachers handle disruptive students in the classroom. The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) has worked on ...

Providing a suitable learning environment is of paramount importance for anyone, but it's even more crucial for young schoolchildren taking their first steps at school, given their inability to ...

Rules of engagement help define how your team will interact. They are like the “We Card.” signs you see in every convenience store. Those signs were created to help the store workers identify and ...

Several books ago I wrote one, Why Good Kids Act Cruel, to help parents help their early adolescents in middle school deal with mistreatment from social cruelty in any of the five forms it commonly ...

The landscape of K-12 classroom management is fraught with various challenges. Educators encounter difficulties in maintaining order, addressing diverse classroom learning needs, and fostering a ...

During his 1983 NCAA championship run, legendary North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano was asked by a reporter if he held “bed check” when the team was on the road. “Absolutely,” replied ...