• Workshops and Consulting
  • Managing & Changing Difficult Classroom Behavior That Interrupts Instruction
  • Changing a Student’s Difficult Behaviors: Behavior Consultation with Recommendations
  • Managing Classroom Behavior for the New Teacher: So You Know How to Teach Kids, But Do You Know How to Manage Their Behaviors?
  • How to Process with Upset & Distressed Students: De-escalate, Relate, Evaluate, Teach New Skills, & Reintegrate
  • The Great Paraprofessional: Behavior Management and Other Key Skills
  • Managing and Changing Lunchroom & Recess Behavior
  • Behavior Intervention Plans to Help Students Succeed
  • Working with the Parents of Students with Difficult Behaviors
  • Supporting Dr. Mike Mezzocchi Student Support Centers, Core Teams, and Behavior Plans
  • “What do I do when a student…?” Troubleshooting today’s most common problematic classroom behaviors
  • Designing a Behavior Management and Intervention Plan for Any Student in Your Classroom
  • Training: A Clear and Concise FBA©
  • The Great Paraprofessional: Behavior Management Skills
• Summer Institutes
  • Summer Institute: Strengthening Tier 1 & 2 Behavior Strategies for Greater Student Success
• Keynotes
  • Teaching Social Skills is an All Day Event!
• 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] Meet Polly Bath – Behavior Consultant and Speaker
  • [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!

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