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  • 5 Steps to Solving a Student’s Behavior Problem in Your Classroom
  • Improve School Behavior by Teaching Social Skills All Day Long!
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  • 5 Steps Every Educator Can Take to Address BEHAVIOR, TRAUMA, & SEL in a Remote or In-Person Classroom
  • Improve Difficult Behaviors by Teaching Kids the Social and Emotional Skills You Need Them to Know
  • Addressing Effects of the Pandemic: Reduce Behaviors, Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma, While Increasing Student Engagement
  • Managing and Changing Difficult Classroom Behavior: A Practical, Uncomplicated Approach for Now and the Future
• Summer Institutes
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  • Improving the Behaviors and Social/Emotional Classroom Impacts of the Pandemic Through an Enhanced MTSS of Behavior Support
• Keynotes
  • We Can Do This! Behavior, Academic Gaps, and How to Get Back to School That Works
• Articles and Videos
  • [Video] Do you want a behavior plan to work? Stick to it!
  • [Video] Behavior: how to make sure you understand
  • [Video] 16 yo ADHD equals 11 yo developmentally
  • [Video] My Four Unbreakable Rules
  • [Video] One-to-one paras are not personal assistants
  • [Blog] Why is “never assume” my first rule of behavior management?
  • [Blog] Dahlia’s Out-of-Control School Behavior: Getting a Reluctant Mom Involved
  • [Blog] The Boy Who Threw a Book at My Head
  • [Blog] Getting Billy to Yes from No, No, NO!
  • [Blog] Holding the Door: A High School Boy Learns the Hard Way
  • [Blog] Earning the trust of a rough and scary high schooler.
  • [Blog] Don’t Take the Bait*
  • [Blog] How you can avoid power struggles with your students
  • [Blog] How I lost control of my class by asking the wrong question.
  • [Blog] Watching an emotional disability in action
  • [Video] How to stay in control with a young defiant student
  • [Video] Want to change difficult behavior? Be consistent and predictable.
  • [Video] Students from tough homes can behave in your class
  • [Video] The kid who pushes you away
  • [Video] When It Seems Like Every Behavior is Disrespectful…
  • [Video] Teacher presence in the hallway changes behavior and school climate.
  • [Video] A Quick Little Way to Intercept a Behavior Escalation
  • [Video] Use objective words, not subjective, to change behavior
  • [Video] What does consistent behavior management look like?
  • [Video] Behavior: define responsibility in kid-speak
  • [Video] Does teaching little kids on the carpet invite behavior problems?
  • [Video] How an Automatic Thought can totally rule your brain
  • [Video] What’s behind an angry student’s behavior in your classroom?
  • [Video] Why you should get down there on the playground
  • [Video] Do you require students to make eye contact?
  • [Video] Don’t forget, behavior can erupt because of a cognitive disability
  • [Video] When a student tries to bait me…
  • [Video] Do you know why the school bus driver is such an important person?
  • [Video] What is the REAL problem when a student violates the dress code?
  • [Video] Why I don’t like to send kids out of my class.
  • [Video] Why I don’t call a behavior “inappropriate” or “unacceptable”
  • [Video] Do I assume kids DO or DON’T have behavior skills?
  • [Video] Should we pay them to behave?
  • [Video] Do you use Silent Lunch, or do you teach lunchtime skills?
  • [Video] Is “refusal” the most common behavior in your class?
  • [Video] Do you use “the wall” to manage recess behavior?
  • [Video] How do I choose which behavior to target first?
  • [Video] Another reason I avoid sending kids to the office.
  • [Video] Why I never tell a student to “act your age.”
  • [Video] Do you let a late student interrupt your momentum?
  • [Video] Get the desks right or lose the class
  • [Video] Does giving attention to an attention-seeker work?
  • [Video] Teaching tricks I learned from winning coaches
  • [Video] Why I never manage behavior by saying, “I’m going to count to three…”
  • [Video] What do you do when a student always blames another student?
  • [Video] How do I manage my class when a student acts out?
  • [Video] How I helped one student solve his own problem
  • [Video] Starting a power struggle is a dead end
  • [Video] Do you try to reason with a student who’s escalated?
  • [Video] Unrealistic behavior goals will crash and burn
  • [Video] Why we don’t want to ban recess games
  • [Video] Don’t invite behaviors – identify needed social skills
  • [Video] Don’t wait until a kid kicks the desk over
  • [Video] Miss, he just gave you the finger!
  • [Video] Oops. I forgot my homework. Again.
  • [Video] Asking a question is a complex social skill
  • [Video] If you give an accommodation, teach ’em how to use it
  • [Video] Understand the parents’ heartache or lose the battle.
  • [Video] The fastest way to wreck a perfectly good behavior plan
  • [Video] Let’s describe good behavior choices as well as poor ones
  • [Video] Reduce behaviors by improving curriculum delivery
  • [Video] How “thank you” can trigger a power struggle
  • [Video] Classroom management – the power of observation
  • [Video] Classroom management – keep a little behavior from becoming a big one
  • [Video] Develop a menu of consequences for your own classroom
  • [Video] Classroom management – if behaviors aren’t getting better, make a change
  • [Video] Classroom management – are you sure preferential seating is always in the front?
  • [Video] Classroom management – why a boy kept throwing his book at me
  • [Video] School climate: look up and say hello in the hall
  • [Video] Classroom management: how I respond to an attention seeker
  • [Video] Classroom management: recognize behaviors as symptoms
  • [Video] School transition: why I start kids WAY early
  • [Video] The best way to target a behavior you want to change
  • [Video] Should we be teaching kids everyone is a winner?
  • [Video] Classroom management: when a kid’s home life is awful
  • [Video] Parent-teacher conference: connecting with a reluctant parent
  • [Video] Emotional disturbance in the classroom: don’t give up on Bobby
  • [Video] Get away from me, I’ll do it myself.
  • [Video] Does a kid with emotional disability have control over behavior?
  • [Video] Solving the locker-during-class problem
  • [Video] Behavior: blurting out answers
  • [Video] Behavior: clowning behind your back
  • [Video] Avoid behaviors: move desks to fit tasks
  • [Video] How to meet oppositional defiance with a consistent limit…
  • [Video] Behaviors: too many bathroom breaks?
  • [Video] Behavior & preferential seating: think outside the box
  • [Video] How to avoid behaviors when a kid needs tutoring
  • [Video] Avoid behaviors: a tip for transitioning
  • [Video] Classroom behavior: how ‘helping’ can provoke behaviors
  • [Video] School behavior: reforming your discipline code
  • [Video] One kid’s description of curriculum delivery that wasn’t working.
  • [Video] Behavior management: manage vs. change
  • [Video] Does taking away recess work?
  • [Video] What is Co-Teaching when you boil it down?
  • [Video] We learn coping skills in a diverse classroom
  • [Video] Lying in school—one way to handle it
  • [Video] How to handle an angry student.
  • [Video] Working with mean girls and their targets
  • [Video] What does a great Behavior Support Team do?
  • [Video] Motivating Timmy who never does ANYTHING in school
  • [Video] Managing the behavior of the kid who yells out
  • [Video] How enforcing school rules makes a BIG difference
  • [Video] Behavior: is my way always the right way?
  • [Video] Coaching an ADHD kid in math
  • [Video] Consequences should relate to the behavior
  • [Video] Do you break building rules in your classroom?
  • [Video] How to stop a kid from arguing with you
  • [Video] Behavior: is it inappropriate, unacceptable, or insubordinate?
  • [Video] Behavior: handling impulsivity
  • [Video] Behavior: don’t teach kids everyone wins
  • [Video] Behavior: do you REQUIRE eye contact?
  • [Video] Behavior: don’t let blaming work
  • [Video] How to reduce school hallway behavior
  • [Video] Documenting behavior? Stick to the facts.
  • [Video] Behavior: get in the middle of recess
  • [Video] 2 Ways to focus with ADHD
  • [Video] Behavior: how giving a LITTLE control can make a BIG difference.
  • [Video] Classroom management: teach kids how to wait
  • [Video] Classroom management: three rules that are a must!
  • [Video] How to avoid power struggles with non-directive cues
  • [Video] Behavior: reacting to eye-rolling
  • [Video] Classroom management: talking in class
  • [Video] Using unconditional attention to teach social/emotional skills
  • [Video] Behavior: help stabilize a child by setting limits
  • [Video] Classroom behavior: our biggest ADHD mistake
  • [Video] What should we do when there is a physical altercation between students?
  • [Video] Help kids with short-term memory issues not to fall behind
  • [Video] Behavior management: BUILD a child’s confidence
  • [Video] De-escalating behavior: LISTEN
  • [Video] Behavior: don’t over-reward
  • [Video] Classroom management: deal with distractions to help kids focus
  • [Video] Use in-school suspension to teach skills
  • [Video] Behavior management: consistency with building rules
  • [Video] Behavior management: consequences teach skills
  • [Video] Behavior management: build rapport with validation
  • [Video] Social skills: teach the meaning behind an apology
  • [Video] Recess behavior: the wall doesn’t teach anything
  • [Video] Behavior: teach skills so they don’t seek avoidance
  • [Video] Behavior: when to say yes, when to say no
  • [Video] Behavior management: hardwired behaviors
  • [Video] Behavior: who are authority figures?
  • [Video] Classroom behavior: hand out your own consequences
  • [Video] Advice for parents in teacher meeting
  • [Video] Behavior: teach kids to control their responses
  • [Video] Behavior: don’t exit a kid if you can teach around them
  • [Video] Social skills: ‘scuse me
  • [Video] When do rewards work?
  • [Video] How to measure a child’s behavior
  • [Video] State behavior expectations in the positive
  • [Video] Do you teach your school mission statement?
  • [Video] Behavior: my cell phone rule in class
  • [Video] Instead of canceling school events for behavior…
  • [Video] Video: do not argue with students
  • [Video] Behavior: when they comply AND sigh
  • [Video] Are we teaching our school’s values to students?
  • [Video] Managing avoidance behavior–bathroom passes
  • [Video] Social skills: compliments
  • [Video] Don’t over protect from failing
  • [Video] The point of detention? To teach skills
  • [Video] Kids with one-to-one paras still need to be taught skills
  • [Video] Teaching new skills to an upset student
  • [Video] Handling work avoidance in class
  • [Video] Should parents punish kids for in-school behavior?
  • [Video] Kids can behave in school, regardless of home
  • [Video] Let’s teach delayed gratification
  • [Video] Don’t get tired of enforcing the rules
  • [Video] Behavior: over-rewarding will backfire
  • [Video] Behavior: disabilities impact development
  • [Video] Behavior: the forbidden question
  • [Video] A child’s “right” doesn’t make his response correct
  • [Video] Behavior: what’s going on back there?
  • [Video] Reward programs–don’t use forever
  • [Video] Use In-School Suspension as a Tier 2 intervention
  • [Video] Dress code violations are refusal
  • [Video] I build confidence
  • [Video] Tier 1 social coaching after an upsetting recess
  • [Video] Don’t ban recess games–teach skills
  • [Video] Teach skills in detention
  • [Video] What social skills does a kid need for today’s lesson?
  • [Video] Behavior: don’t ask, redirect
  • [Video] Keep accommodation within school rules
  • [Video] Behavior: school vs. home
  • [Video] Hung up on criss-cross applesauce?
  • [Video] It is okay to lose
  • [Video] Behavior: kid sleeping in class?
  • [Video] Behavior: are you over-accommodating?
  • [Video] Behavior: autism & social skills
  • [Video] Punishment: No recess? Detention?
  • [Video] Behavior: memory issues
  • [Video] Behavior: save time by teaching skills!
  • [Video] Behavior: not a language-based learner?
  • [Video] Behavior: was I talking to you?
  • [Video] Behavior: oppositional defiant disorder
  • [Video] Behavior: unconditional attention
  • [Video] Behavior: powerful time outs
  • [Video] Behavior: teach organization!
  • [Video] Behavior: authority issues
  • [Video] Behavior: standing/walking in a line
  • [Video] Behavior: can you name the 4 causes of anger?
  • [Video] Do you improve behavior by teaching delayed gratification?
  • [Video] Behavior: how kids are sitting
  • [Video] Behavior: DON’T react to eye rolls and muttering!
  • [Video] Behavior: do you teach kids HOW to self-regulate?
  • [Video] Behavior: low SEL equals poor academic rigor
  • [Video] Behavior: management PLUS intervention equals change
  • [Video] Does home behavior DICTATE school behavior?
  • [Video] Behavior: what is the impact of not belonging?
  • [Video] Behavior: teach respect for authority
  • [Video] Behavior: are you rewarding tantrums?
  • [Video] Behavior: don’t tax attention spans
  • [Video] Behavior: avoid winter apparel meltdowns in little kids
  • [Video] Do you use questions to manage behavior?
  • [Video] Do you make criss-cross applesauce a behavior issue?
  • [Video] I Failed History Because I was a Bit of a Behavior Problem!
  • [Video] Behavior: handling distractions!
  • [Video] Behavior: why is teaching ‘everybody is a winner’ a problem?
  • [Video] Behavior: stop, think, process!
  • [Video] Behavior: do you use rewards poorly?
  • [Video] Behavior: can I sit with my friends?
  • [Video] Behavior expectations: the power of repeating
  • [Video] Behavior: are you modeling what you want?
  • [Video] Behavior: why I hate to send kids out of class
  • [Video] Behavior: 2 strategies for tattling
  • [Video] Behavior: kindergarten problem-solving story
  • [Video] Behavior: silence or indoor voice?
  • [Video] Behavior: do you send kids to the wall at recess?
  • [Video] Behavior: consequence of over-rewarding
  • [Video] The 4th rule in my classroom: NO
  • [Video] Behavior: are you reading non-verbal cues?
  • [Video] Teach kids how to de-escalate themselves!
  • [Video] Consequences: 4-part rubric for an apology letter
  • [Video] Behavior: are your expectations too advanced?
  • [Video] Behavior: do you give TOO many breaks?
  • [Video] Behavior: build conversation skills
  • [Video] Behavior: the kid who keeps running out of class
  • [Video] Behavior: showing respect for authority
  • [Video] Behavior prevention: teach how to ask questions
  • [Video] Behavior: Do NOT use the bench!
  • [Video] Angry Kids Make us Angry
  • [Video] Behavior: make detention work!
  • [Video] Behavior: playground consequences and interventions
  • [Video] Behavior: make In-School Suspension WORK!
  • [Video] Behavior: teach ’em GROUP skills
  • [Video] Behavior: re-entry after School Suspension
  • [Video] Classroom management: I establish trust before rigor!
  • [Video] Behavior: Don’t argue with a student!
  • [Video] Behavior: put the brakes on your reaction
  • [Video] Behavior: Are Kids Refusing?
  • [Video] Behavior: Maximize the Relationship
  • [Video] Behavior: Breaking Classroom Rules?
  • [Video] Behavior: Consequences That Make Sense
  • [Video] Self-Regulating: Teach Kids How!
  • [Video] Bus Drivers: Welcome Each Kid!
  • [Video] Losing Your Cool?
  • [Video] Behavior: Got a Frequent Flyer?
  • [Video] What Does Respect Look Like?
  • [Video] Behavior: Chatty Class?
  • [Video] Negotiate? Maybe.
  • [Video] Improve Behavior With Classroom Setup
  • [Video] A Five-Year Old Was Being Teased…
  • [Video] Don’t Ignore. Control.
  • [Video] Rewards Can Backfire!
  • [Video] Confront? Redirect?
  • [Video] Behavior: Disruption and Refusal
  • [Video] The F-Word in School?
  • [Video] Got a Controlling Student?
  • [Video] Little Behavior? What I Do.
  • [Video] TELL Them WHAT To Do.
  • [Video] Limits HELP Chaotic Kids
  • [Video] Suspension Repeaters?
  • [Video] Don’t Ban! Teach Skills!
  • [Video] Your Kid Punched Someone!
  • [Video] Why Detentions Don’t Work But Could
  • [Video] Gangs & Drug Dealers
  • [Video] Don’t Respond Till You are CALM.
  • [Video] I HATE Sending Kids to the Office!
  • [Video] Teach Kids How to Handle Anger and Frustration
  • [Video] Cutting in Line at Recess?
  • [Video] Consequence: Saying Sorry
  • [Video] Consistent Rules Improve Behaviors
  • [Video] Behavior and Basic Tier 1
  • [Video] The Mistake We Make in Teaching Respect to Abused and Neglected Children.
  • [Video] Behavior: Distractions in Desk?
  • [Video] Consequences are Most Effective When They are Timely!
  • [Video] A Kid with a Tough Home Life Who’s Always Late
  • [Video] Vague Behavior Descriptions Are Worthless
  • [Video] Don’t Use Rewards with a Manipulator!!!
  • [Video] Short Detentions? VERY Short.
  • [Video] How to Fix Impatient Kids (and Have Fun Doing it)
  • [Video] Don’t Do the WRONG Thing When a Kid with ADHD is Failing Math!!!
  • [Video] What was the Function of THAT Behavior?
  • [Video] Do Kids Have Any Idea Where Comments Go on Social Media?
  • [Video] Make a Creative Menu of Consequences
  • [Video] Unruly Kids and Traumatized Kids NEED Classroom Jobs
  • [Video] Getting an Off-Task Edgy Kid Back on Task
  • [Video] Don’t Just Kick Me Out of Class
  • [Video] I’ll Do Anything to Get My Class Back on Track
  • [Video] Help a Kid Get Organized and Their Behaviors WILL Improve
  • [Video] Rewarding TARDY?
  • [Video] Don’t Blow it with Rewards
  • [Video] How to Pay Attention When You Can’t But Must
  • [Video] Don’t Assume Kids Know How to Change Activities! They Don’t!
  • [Video] Do You Hate Enforcing School Rules?
  • [Video] A Kid is Getting Upset – Are YOU?
  • [Video] Disrespect is Personal
  • [Video] Don’t Get into a Power Struggle When a Student Interrupts You.
  • [Video] Best Definition of Recess Duty Ever!
  • [Video] When NOT to Fight Distractions, ‘Cause You’ll Never Win
  • [Video] In-School Suspension is NOT a Holding Tank!
  • [Video] Untimely Consequences are Useless
  • [Video] It’s a Big Mistake to Think Kids Know How to Behave
  • [Video] Ignore a Behavior? Part 1
  • [Video] Why Reflecting on ‘My Behavior Choice’ Doesn’t Always Work for a Kid
  • [Video] Ignore a Behavior? Part 2
  • [Video] If I Don’t Have the Skills Already, Punishment Won’t Work
  • [Video] Start the Year Strong, STAY Strong!
  • [Video] An Easy Way to Handle Tattletaling
  • [Video] Behaviors Have REASONS
  • [Video] Behavior Plan for Eighty-Five Teachers?
  • [Video] Anxious to AVOID?
  • [Video] Offended and Offensive on Social Media
  • [Video] Teaching SEL is NOT Complicated
  • [Video] Over-accommodating is a Serious Mistake!
  • [Video] Disrespectful Little Monster?
  • [Video] Insisting on Eye Contact?
  • [Video] What’s BEHIND a Student’s Anger?
  • [Video] “Voices Off” Makes My Teeth Itch
  • [Video] Thrown Out of Class and Hopping Mad
  • [Video] Switch Time is Fun
  • [Video] When Is Break Time a Bad Idea in a Behavior Plan?
  • [Video] My Favorite Behavior Management When I Get My Buttons Pushed
  • [Video] Do I Keep Control or Lose Control?
  • [Video] DISTRACTIONS, Not Focus, is the ADHD Issue
  • [Video] Attention-Seeking Misbehavior and My Unusual Response
  • [Video] Is Cell Phone Use in Class Driving You Crazy?
  • [Video] Do Your Kids Know What Authority Means?
  • [Video] Your Presence in the Hall Will Change Behaviors
  • [Video] Take Away All Their Control and You’ve Got a Fight
  • [Video] SEL and Why I Love Cafeteria Duty
  • [Video] How to Deal with Unpredictable Social Interactions
  • [Video] Most Detentions are a Waste, But Not MINE
  • [Video] Is a Behavior Violating Community?
  • [Video] The Problems You Cause When You Let School Rules Slide
  • [Video] Trauma Often Looks Like ADHD in Our Students
  • [Video] How I Avoid Arguments with Students
  • [Video] Don’t Let Self-Regulation Slide and Expect Kids to Be Ready to Learn
  • [Video] The Calm Brain is a Better Performing Brain
  • [Video] If It’s Always the Same Kids Then What You’re Doing Isn’t Working
  • [Video] You Can Win Over a Difficult Parent
  • [Video] TELL Kids WHAT to Do
  • [Video] No Matter the Homelife, Teach Kids to Behave in School
  • [Video] Special SEL Classes Are Fine, But YOU Have to Teach It Too
  • [Video] My Outrageous Antics to Get My Class Back On Track
  • [Video] Whole Class Having a Meltdown?
  • [Video] Neither Praise Nor Punishment Work for All Kids
  • [Video] There Are Good Detentions and Bad Detentions
  • [Video] Behavior, Play, and Recess Duty
  • [Video] Don’t Waste In-School Suspension
  • [Video] The Problem with Power Struggles
  • [Video] Don’t We Want ‘Em to LIKE School?
  • [Video] Cause and Effect Bulletin Board to IMPROVE BEHAVIOR
  • [Video] Don’t Solve All Their Problems for Them
  • [Video] I Control My Temper No Matter What a Kid Says
  • [Video] Just Because a Student Loses Control Doesn’t Mean I Do!
  • [Video] Sometimes YOU Need a Quick Respite
  • [Video] Kids with Fine Motor Deficits Get FRUSTRATED!
  • [Video] Getting a Distracted Class Back on Track
  • [Video] Teach REAL Apologizing, Not FAKE Apologizing
  • [Video] Take a Breath, Calm Yourself, THEN Respond
  • [Video] If All the Teachers Stood Outside Their Classrooms When Classes Changed…
  • [Video] Control Yourself is the First Rule
  • [Video] When You Throw Them Out They Miss Instruction
  • [Video] Teach Kids to Handle Anxiety, Not Hide
  • [Video] Mean What You Say
  • [Video] Every Behavior Has a PURPOSE!
  • [Video] But I Teach My Subject, NOT Behavior!!!!
  • [Video] Stop Banning Social Media in School!
  • [Video] All It Takes Is One Teacher Not Enforcing Rules
  • [Video] Compliance is a Loaded Word and I Don’t Like It
  • [Video] Kids Get in Trouble in the World When WE Let Adult Authority Slide
  • [Video] Freely GIVE Attention to the Attention Seeker – Unconditionally
  • [Video] Keeping Your Poker Face Even When A Kid Gets to You
  • [Video] All the Ways We Reinforce Attention Seeking
  • [Video] WHY Is That Behavior Inappropriate???
  • [Video] Wonder if a Kid is NOT SORRY?
  • [Video] Duties Are An Opportunity to Teach Social Skills
  • [Video] THINK Before Responding!!!
  • [Video] Not Belonging Will CAUSE Behaviors
  • [Video] How I Respond to Escalating Behaviors
  • [Video] If I’ve Never Been Regulated at Home…
  • [Video] Traumatized Kids Can’t Always Do Recess
  • [Video] What’s the Goal of a Consequence?
  • [Video] Behavior? Sometimes We Just Have to Walk Over…
  • [Video] What’s the Difference Between Swearing in the Hall and Swearing AT Someone?
  • [Video] You Do NOT Have to Respond IMMEDIATELY
  • [Video] If Kids Know Talk Time Is Coming, They Will Pay More Attention During Instruction
  • [Video] Timing MATTERS When Giving a Detention!
  • [Video] This is How We Can Turn Tier 2 Behavior Around!
  • [Video] DO NOT Give Everyone a Trophy!!!
  • [Video] If I’m Losing the Class I Hit the RESTART Button
  • [Video] Taking Back Control When Behavior Goes TOO FAR!
  • [Video] Kids Need Us to Define Behavior Objectively and Precisely
  • [Video] The Way I Do Lunch Detention
  • [Video] It’s Hard to Be Creative If You’re Traumatized
  • [Video] Should Traumatized Kids Have Limits and Expectations?
  • [Video] I Like the Peaceful Power of a Non-Directive Cue
  • [Video] Are You Soft on Kids with Disabilities?
  • [Video] Polly Bath — Behavior Consultant and Speaker
  • [Video] Stop Making Kids Apologize!
  • [Video] A Messy Classroom is a Red Flag You’re Not Teaching Self-Regulation
  • [Video] Behaviors Are Symptoms of Skill Deficits
  • [Video] Riding It Out When a Kid is Tantruming
  • [Video] I Don’t Like to Use Screen Time as a Reward
  • [Video] A Difficult Parent Probably Had a Difficult Time in School Themselves
  • [Video] Poor Conversation Skills Can LOOK Like Behavior Problems
  • [Video] If You’re Asking Them to Work in Groups, YOU BETTER TEACH ‘EM HOW!!!
  • [Video] We MUST Teach Anger Self-Management
  • [Video] I Won’t Negotiate on These Four Classroom Rules
  • [Video] How Many Times Do I Have to Tell Them?
  • [Video] When Is the Best Response NO Response?
  • [Video] Not Being Able to Handle Rejection Can Cause a Behavior Problem
  • [Video] How Many Times Do I Have to Say NO!!!
  • [Video] When We Don’t Belong, We Won’t Participate
  • [Video] Behavior Management Versus Behavior Intervention
  • [Video] Relationships Make or Break Behavior
  • [Video] What Do You Do When Your Consequence Backfires?
  • [Video] You Can Teach Kids Why They’re Getting Angry
  • [Video] Solve Running in the Hall for the Rest of the Year!
  • [Video] Becoming an Authority Figure for Kids with No Authority at Home
  • [Video] No Differentiation? You’ll Get Behaviors Every Time!
  • [Video] We All Lack Emotional Coping Skills – Students and Teachers Alike!
  • [Video] We Try to Fix Kids with Certain Diagnoses
  • [Video] The Behavior That Most Impacts the Kid
  • [Video] Behavior: Transitions and Acting Out
  • [Video] Behavior: The Best Way to Handle Phones in Class
  • [Video] You Can’t Control Their Home Lives and It Doesn’t Matter!
  • [Video] I Manage Behavior with 3-Word Scripts!
  • [Video] Distractions? Sometimes I Go With It!
  • [Video] When A Kid Who Has Been Failing Makes A Breakthrough
  • [Video] Good Consequences Are Connected to the ‘Offense’
  • [Video] If We Don’t Regulate Kids…
  • [Video] Behavior: Kid Escalating?
  • [Video] Behavior: Trauma at Home & Aggression in School
  • [Video] Are You Sure You’re Teaching Respect?
  • [Video] If a Kid Misbehaves to Get Attention Because That’s All They Know…
  • [Video] Kids Need Play to Develop Executive Functioning Skills
  • [Video] Behavior: Fix Disregulation!
  • [Video] How I Ride Out a Tantrum
  • [Video] Calling a Kid “Your Kid” or “My Kid” Should Not Be Allowed
  • [Video] Autism and Recess
  • [Video] Being Able to Compete is a Skill and Kids Don’t Have It!
  • [Video] Here’s a Great Consequence for Violating Acceptable Use Policy!
  • [Video] Teach Kids to Put Space Between Impulse and Action
  • [Video] Behavior: Tattling on the Playground?
  • [Video] Too Much Praise and Reward Will Backfire
  • [Video] Don’t Reward Attention-Seeking Room Trashing
  • [Video] Kid Likes to Run Out of the Room?
  • [Video] Teachers in Hallways CHANGE Everything!
  • [Video] If I Destroyed the Bulletin Board…
  • [Video] She Was Tardy All the Time!
  • [Video] 1 in 8 Kids Are Living in Trauma or Abuse
  • [Video] A Social Emotional Mess…?
  • [Video] How to Make ISS Work!
  • [Video] Don’t Ask…TELL!!!
  • [Video] When Rewards Do and Don’t Work
  • [Video] Memory Problems Can Cause Behavior Problems
  • [Video] Brains Need Time to Process!
  • [Video] Behavior: Homework & Skill Deficits
  • [Video] Writing and Behavior?
  • [Video] Send to the Office?
  • [Video] Behavior: When a Lesson Tanks!
  • [Video] Hitting You Emotionally?
  • [Video] When a Kid BLURTS OUT!
  • [Video] Escalating Kid? (Part 2)
  • [Video] Behavior: I Gotta Belong!
  • [Video] Wishy-Washy Rules Make Behaviors WORSE
  • [Video] Behavior: I’m Gonna Get in Trouble If I Do That!
  • [Video] Why Is This Student So Angry?
  • [Video] Behavior: Are You Over-Accommodating ANXIETY?
  • [Video] Do I Let Friends Sit Together in Class?
  • [Video] Intro to New Series on ‘Disregulation’
  • [Video] Self-Regulation: A Whole School Approach
  • [Video] Self-Regulation: The Everyday Classroom
  • [Video] Self-Regulation: Teaching the Individual
  • [Video] Strong Feelings in the Classroom?
  • [Video] Books for Social Emotional Learning NOW
  • [Video] Q & A: Tardy Again!
  • [Video] DISTRACTIONS: How to Teach Attention!!!
  • [Video] Just Stop for a Moment
  • [Video] Asperger’s and My Son
  • [Video] In Control or Outta Control?
  • [Video] Disruption! Refusal!
  • [Video] It Is So Easy to Misuse Breaks in a Behavior Plan
  • [Video] Coronavirus: What Will Kids Remember About School? (personal story at end!)
  • [Video] Behavior: I’m Not Doing This!
  • [Video] SAFE is Now a Confusing Word to Kids!!!
  • [Video] Behavior and Respect – Don’t Be Confusing!
  • [Video] Behavior: Are You SORRY?
  • [Video] ‘Organization’ is a Skill, Not a Behavior!
  • [Video] My New S.E.L. Sensory Sidewalk!
  • [Video] Sugar-Coated Control?
  • [Video] My New Favorite SEL Book!
  • [Video] Behavior from Disorganized Kids?
  • [Video] School Year 2020-21 A.C.!!!
  • [Video] Talking Out Is Disruptive!
  • [Video] Do Kids Respect Us?
  • [Video] Say It and Keep Moving!
  • [Video] When I Like Consequences
  • [Video] Trauma Blocks Imagination!!!
  • [Video] Did A Kid Trash Your Room?
  • [Video] Better Behavior and Talk Time!
  • [Video] When a GREAT Lesson Plan Causes BEHAVIORS!!!
  • [Video] Fun Delayed Gratification: Learning How to Wait
  • [Video] When Teachers Are Visible It Changes School for Kids
  • [Video] The Best Way to Redirect Behavior!
  • [Video] Every Behavior Meets a Need!
  • [Video] My Way or the Highway!
  • [Video] Consistent Learning Shutdown?
  • [Video] Changing Our Interventions for Extreme Behaviors
  • [Video] Motivating the Remote Learner (confession at the end!)
  • [Video] Masks & Reading Facial Expressions
  • [Video] Unlock More MOTIVATION for Remote Learning (another personal confession at the end!)
  • [Video] Can We Make Social Distancing FUN?
  • [Video] Outta Bed for Class? Or Not?
  • [Video] Remote Learning: Boundary Between Home and School
  • [Video] Teaching the Harder Emotions
  • [Video] Take Kids OUTSIDE, Remote or In-Person
  • [Video] Covid-19: Time Outs at Home and School
  • [Video] Thanks Covid-19: We ALL have Tier 2 behaviors now!
  • [Video] Struggling with ‘Littles’ and Learning? (cute story alert!)
  • [Video] It’s Extremely Stressful: Don’t Burn Out
  • [Video] Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in 2020-21
  • [Video] Is ‘Camera Off’ Refusal?
  • [Video] Parent Connections Improving with Virtual Learning?
  • [Video] “Talk Time” in the remote classroom?
  • [Video] Covid-19 & Behavior: Using Common Language
  • [Video] Don’t BLURT and Regret: Teach Kids How
  • [Video] FUN Classroom Conversation Starters
  • [Video] 3 Books I Love for SEL and Mindfulness
  • [Video] Mask Power Struggles!
  • [Video] Behaviors in Art Class? Music?
  • [Video] Cheating and Lying?
  • [Video] How I Enliven SEL for Olders with Little Kids’ Books
  • [Video] I Don’t Ignore Behavior!
  • [Video] Behavior: How Do You Make a Decision?
  • [Video] Behaviors and Academic Bell-to-Bell During Covid
  • [Video] My Detentions Change Behavior!
  • [Video] Why I Like Middle School House Systems
  • [Video] Behavior & SEL: Self-Management
  • [Video] Behavior & SEL: Self-Awareness
  • [Video] Behavior & SEL: Decision-Making
  • [Video] Behavior & SEL: Relationship Skills
  • [Video] Behavior & SEL: Social Awareness
  • [Video] I Did a Stupid Thing as a Kid! Why?
  • [Video] Rock & Change Your Whole Building!
  • [Video] But My Mom Lets Me Swear At Home
  • [Video] Your Response to A Behavior Can Make It Better or Worse
  • [Video] Are You Disregulating Kids’ Behavior?
  • [Video] Is Dis-Engagement Always a Behavior?
  • [Video] What Impacts Kids’ Behavior the Most?
  • [Video] Teach 3 Steps to Perseverance
  • [Video] When We Get Behaviors from ‘Littles’…
  • [Video] The Cure for Running in the Hall
  • [Video] What SEL Skills Are Needed to Access That Lesson?
  • [Video] Teach Self-Regulation in 3 Steps
  • [Video] Paras & Aides: What Your Job Is and Isn’t (imho)!
  • [Video] Build Kids’ Confidence When You Take Attendance
  • [Video] A Different Response to RUDE %#$@!!!
  • [Video] Make NO Mean NO!!!
  • [Video] 2 Tips: The Student Who Argues
  • [Video] School Behavior: Kids from Tough Situations
  • [Video] 4 Reasons Kids Get Angry
  • [Video] Do Your Behavior Rewards FAIL?
  • [Video] Amazing DECREASE in Behaviors, Bullying…
  • [Video] It’s Their Fault. NOT MINE!
  • [Video] Consistency SOLVES Behavior Problems
  • [Video] I Did NOT Send Kids Out of My Class
  • [Video] Culture of Adults Dictates Culture of Kids!
  • [Video] Bad Advice on How to Treat People
  • [Video] They Did That ON PURPOSE!
  • [Video] Adolescents Need Control — Show Them How
  • [Video] How Do Kids Learn to Behave Differently?
  • [Video] Yes, Kids Can Behave Differently at School Than at Home
  • [Video] Make Benchmarks Super Easy
  • [Video] Do You Have a Powerhouse Tier 1?
  • [Video] Teach Kids Self-Awareness! Super Important!
  • [Video] Behavior Management: Don’t Use These 3 Words
  • [Video] We Can’t “Fix” Kids
  • [Video] How to Put SEL into Academic Lesson Plans
  • [Video] Bring Kids and Adults Together with a Culture Calendar
  • [Video] Describe the 4 Most Common School Behaviors
  • [Video] BE PREDICTABLE in Times of Uncertainty
  • [Video] Don’t Belong? Harder to Learn.
  • [Video] The 5 Causes of Behaviors
  • [Video] Behavior: 14 Things Kids Can’t Handle
  • [Video] 3 Ways to Reduce a Kid’s Stress
  • [Video] Pandemic Behavior: 10th Graders Acting Like 7th Graders
  • [Video] Don’t Ask an Angry Kid to “Use Your Words”
  • [Video] Behavior 101: Don’t Take the Bait!
  • [Video] Any Behavior is a Skill Deficit
  • [Video] My Advice on Cafeteria Duty
  • [Video] How I Change Behavior
  • [Video] Being a Good Listener is Hard
  • [Video] Disrespect is a Behavior to Manage
  • [Video] Change Behaviors with Your Detentions
  • [Video] Sending Kids to the Office is a Bad Idea
  • [Video] I Beg You. Teach Transition Skills.
  • [Video] Trauma in Kids Shuts Down Imagination
  • [Video] Teach the Do’s and Don’ts of Apologies
  • [Video] SEL and Standing in Line
  • [Video] Create a “Culture Calendar”
  • [Video] Overcoming Inconsistency and Unpredictability
  • [Video] When a Kid Swears and Slams the Door…
  • [Video] General George Patton or Mr. Rogers
  • [Video] Assume Kids DO NOT Have Skills
  • [Video] Keep a “Neutral” Face
  • [Video] Screen Time as a Behavior Reward?
  • [Video] Blurred Lines of Authority at Home
  • [Video] Anxiety: “I Can’t Find the Words”
  • [Video] Teach Anxiety Management for the Real World
  • [Video] “I’m Autistic” vs. “I Have Autism.”
  • [Video] My role with the kid who plays video games all night?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: How Do I Handle Tantrums?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: How Do I Settle Kids After Lunch and Recess?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Suddenly the Middle School Bell Rings!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: High School Apathy
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Attention Seeking!
  • [Video] Disorganization Is Not Bad Behavior!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: My 7th Graders Are So Rude to Me!
  • [Video] Play Is An Important Part of Learning
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Student Mental Health in High School
  • [Video] What’s Behind a Kid’s ANGER?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Mean Elementary Kids
  • [Video] Teach Transition Skills or Suffer the Consequences!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Middle School Morning Meeting?
  • [Video] The Adults ARE the School Culture!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Heads Buried in Phones?
  • [Video] Don’t Be So Quick To Run Interference!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Shocking Speech
  • [Video] Teaching Self-Help Skills to Little Kids
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Social Media Drama!
  • [Video] Kids Not Doing Well on Tests?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Vaping in the Bathroom?
  • [Video] Help Kids Focus!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Behavior Management Isn’t Working Anymore!
  • [Video] Kids Learn Empathy from YOU!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Motivating Students
  • [Video] Difficulty With Receptive Language Learning?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Wandering the Halls All Day
  • [Video] Transitions and Talking
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Badly Behaved Kindergarteners
  • [Video] This Kid Can’t Keep It Together!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Appalling Language!
  • [Video] Time Out For Preschoolers?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: How To Avoid Power Struggles
  • [Video] Disruptions Due To Talking Out?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Refusal To Join Morning Circle
  • [Video] Are Little Kids Being Disrespectful?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Cussing In Elementary School
  • [Video] Dealing With a Chair Thrower?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: A Lot of Bus Behaviors?
  • [Video] Escalating Behaviors Calls for Consistency
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Problematic Dress? Behavior? Speech?
  • [Video] What Kids Need After Massive Uncertainty
  • [Video] Ask Polly: “Mean Girls” In Elementary School
  • [Video] Behaviors During Share Time?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Aggressive Horseplay?
  • [Video] Are Kids Reacting Before Thinking?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Dress Code in High School?
  • [Video] Behaviors? Don’t Get Ruffled Up.
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Worsening Behaviors Despite My Efforts
  • [Video] Non-Directive Cues Work!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Fed Up with Lack of Respect!
  • [Video] Reconnect After Consequences!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Disrespectful to Paras?
  • [Video] Disruptive Behavior?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Can’t Handle Play
  • [Video] Don’t Overuse “Be Safe!”
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Teens Mocking Teachers?
  • [Video] WHAT Is the Behavior?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: High School Behavior and the Office
  • [Video] Prevent Behaviors from Becoming Safety Issues
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Behavior At Home vs. School
  • [Video] Don’t Just Accommodate Anxiety, Teach Skills!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Can’t Handle Downtime
  • [Video] Behavior: Inappropriate? Unacceptable?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Violence in High Schools
  • [Video] Are Your Students Unraveling?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Post-Pandemic Problems?
  • [Video] Behaviors: Disrespect or Refusal?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Detention for Disruption?
  • [Video] Manage Behaviors & Teach Skills
  • [Video] Ask Polly: No School Spirit?
  • [Video] Playing is Important!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Blaming and Excusing?
  • [Video] Causal Factor of a Behavior?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Can Kids Learn From Other’s Mistakes?
  • [Video] How We Respond Matters!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: No Problem-Solving Skills?
  • [Video] Don’t Get Derailed by Swearing!
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Aren’t Ready for High School!
  • [Video] Annoying Behaviors and Power Struggles
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Standing In Line Quietly
  • [Video] Loss of Community in Schools?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Encourage Kids Who Don’t Have Behaviors?
  • [Video] Is a Kid Getting to You?
  • [Video] Ask Polly: Kids Not Understanding Directions?
  • [Video] Are You Causing a Power Struggle?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “I get so much push back!”
  • [Video] The Teenage Brain is Different
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Pack of Kids with Bad Behaviors?
  • [Video] Burdened by Student Behavior?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Are Timers Helpful or Stressful?
  • [Video] Is a Kid with ADHD Failing?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Social Media and Social Skills?
  • [Video] Behaviors and Teacher’s Emotions
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Getting Kids to Do Group Activities
  • [Video] Lunch is a Social Event!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Frustrated with Lunch Duty?
  • [Video] Attention Seeking Behavior?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Is Swearing the New Norm?
  • [Video] Be Consistent with School Rules!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: ‘Littles’ and Self-Regulating
  • [Video] Social Skills Impact Behavior!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “Adult” Behaviors from Younger Kids?
  • [Video] The Benefit of Hall Duty!!!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Behavior and Learning Disabilities?
  • [Video] Kids Not Using Their Social Skills?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Cell Phones and Power Struggles?
  • [Video] Youngsters and Saying Excuse Me
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Out of Control Behavior?
  • [Video] Safety Issues at Recess?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Off Topic Questions During Class?
  • [Video] When a Reward System Breaks Down
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Other Kids Interrupting One-on-One Time?
  • [Video] Can Kids Solve Their Problems?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Call the Office for Behavior?
  • [Video] Behavior? Stop and Think!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Is All-School Community Possible?
  • [Video] Reduce Behaviors with “Talk Time”
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Calming Techniques and Disregulation
  • [Video] What is an Apology?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: What’s My Role as a Para?
  • [Video] Deliberately Annoying Behavior?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Plugging Toilets on Purpose?
  • [Video] Back Talk? Or Power Struggle?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Telling a Kid to Stop Immediately
  • [Video] Late to Class…Again!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: You’re a Teacher Not a Buddy
  • [Video] Tell Kids to Take Back Control
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Running In School Suspension
  • [Video] How Do You Define Lying?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: I’ve Got a Runner!
  • [Video] Co-Regulate with ‘Littles’
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Turning Kids Against Me
  • [Video] Kids Texting? Talking?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Anticipating Escalation
  • [Video] Are You Making Behaviors Worse?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Not Coming in After Recess?
  • [Video] Don’t Force Kids into Social Situations
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: I Dread Calling Parents!
  • [Video] Talking Back But Still Complying?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Too Rigid? Too Wishy Washy?
  • [Video] School Values Start with Adults
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Work Before Fun?
  • [Video] Nothing Working? Do This!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Hitting? Spitting? HELP!!!
  • [Video] Culture Eats Strategy
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Consequence or Not?
  • [Video] I Didn’t Do Anything!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Logical Consequences?
  • [Video] Surviving Substitute Teaching!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Hanging in the Bathroom?
  • [Video] Lecture vs. Small Group Seating?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Self-management & Regulation?
  • [Video] Perception of Electives!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Student Feels Disrespected?
  • [Video] Is Punishment Needed?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Only Teacher Enforcing Dress Code?
  • [Video] Behaviors & Blaming Others?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Prompts to Get Kids to Listen?
  • [Video] Angry Outbursts!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Go to the Principal’s Office?
  • [Video] Are You Angry?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Is Setting Goals Helpful or Hurtful?
  • [Video] Inviting Environment?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Kids Want Choices for Everything
  • [Video] Can’t You Read the Room?
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Are Gadgets Distracting?
  • [Video] Side Conversations in Class!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: “JUST STOP!!!”
  • [Video] Give Kids Purpose!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: Helping Upset Kids
  • [Video] Careful with Behavior Plans!
  • [Video] Ask Polly Bath: HEY! My Hand Is Up!

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