Date: August 27th, 2023
Polly answers the question: “Can you talk about how to move away from diagnoses we’ve been using to explain learning and behavior challenges, like ADHD or Autism, and more towards accepting and working with neurodiversity?”
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Date: July 12th, 2023
Distractibility might cause a student with ADHD to fail in certain subjects. So, how do we help them?
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Date: May 17th, 2023
When kids are unraveling from an emotional standpoint, the best thing we can do is demonstrate by our response how we want them to respond in the future.
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Date: May 10th, 2023
Look past a child’s behavior to see what the causal factor is.
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Date: December 3rd, 2022
Polly answers the question: “The kids I teach don’t behave at all. I mean, they can’t sit still, they can’t work independently, they whine, they argue with each other, and they don’t play nice no matter what I say! I want it to stop! What can I do?”
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Date: November 23rd, 2022
School is mostly receptive language learning. But in the age of technology, this is not the way most kids learn. So, what should we do? Teach the skills needed to learn from lectures!
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Date: July 31st, 2022
There’s a conversation going on right now about saying “I’m autistic” versus “I have autism.” What does it mean to educators in the classroom?
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Date: January 22nd, 2022
Behaviors always have a cause. Here are 5 factors that are often behind a behavior.
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Date: November 27th, 2021
Teaching self-awareness to children is key, and HOW we do it is super important.
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Date: June 12th, 2021
A day in my garden made me think of our littles in preschool and elementary and how they all “grow” differently. This will impact behavior!
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