Date: April 14th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “Sometimes I just don’t know what to say! When an upset kid comes to me with a problem I don’t always have the answers. How can I help when I don’t know what to say or do?”
Date: March 3rd, 2024
Polly answers the question: “In my classroom I use prompts to get everyone’s attention, like, ‘Put your hand on your head if you are using whole body listening.’ This worked for a long time. But now they put their hands on their heads and keep right on talking! What am I doing wrong here?”
Date: July 17th, 2022
Kids often have a hard time expressing themselves, they can’t always find the words. As much as we want to jump in to help them, don’t! Just give them time!
Date: March 27th, 2022
Date: February 6th, 2022
When kids don’t know how to handle their stress, it causes behaviors. If we help them to reduce their stress, it will end up reducing behaviors as well!
Date: April 3rd, 2021
Relationship skills play a big part in SEL and behavior. So here are 7 relationship skills I recommend we teach kids.
Date: November 29th, 2020
Y’all know I love Talk Time in the classroom. BUT… Can we still do that with our VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS?
Date: September 19th, 2018
Could we be preventing a kid from HEARING us because we’re insisting on eye contact?
Date: June 27th, 2018
Date: December 5th, 2017
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