Ask Polly Bath: Logical Consequences?

Date: January 28th, 2024

Polly answers the question: “What is an example of logical consequences?”

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Ask Polly Bath: Running In School Suspension

Date: November 19th, 2023

Polly answers the question: “I have been assigned to run an In School Suspension room. I’m having so many problems with this! The kids dismiss me, the staff walk in whenever they want to reprimand kids in my care, and the kids think the whole thing is a joke. Any advice?”

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Ask Polly: Kids Wandering the Halls All Day

Date: November 27th, 2022

Polly answers the question: “We have high schoolers who wander the halls all day. When someone tells them to go to class they make explosive comments. How can we address this problem?”

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Ask Polly: Vaping in the Bathroom?

Date: November 5th, 2022

Polly answers the question: “How can we address vaping in the high school bathrooms?”

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Changing Our Interventions for Extreme Behaviors

Date: August 8th, 2020

When we get back to in-person education, I say let’s take the opportunity to finally change our interventions for extreme behaviors.

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How to Make ISS Work!

Date: January 22nd, 2020

Ever have a kid want a couple days in In-School Suspension to catch up on work? That’s not the point of it!

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Don’t Waste In-School Suspension

Date: January 16th, 2019

In-School Suspension should be In-School INTERVENTION!

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If It’s Always the Same Kids Then What You’re Doing Isn’t Working

Date: December 12th, 2018

If the way you do suspensions and detentions is working at your school, then you won’t keep seeing the same kids over and over.

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Teaching SEL is NOT Complicated

Date: September 8th, 2018

I teach SEL on purpose all the time. Here are some of my ideas.

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If I Don’t Have the Skills Already, Punishment Won’t Work

Date: August 15th, 2018

Remember when punishment changed behavior? Well, it doesn’t do that now, and here’s why…

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