Teachers can create welcoming, safe spaces while still maintaining high expectations and holding students accountable.

Jal: As with many of the things we discuss here, restorative justice is an idea that is admirable in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, in particular because it is so misaligned with much ...

LOOK AT THEM FROM ANNAPOLIS. REPORTER: CLASSROOM HORROR STORIES TOLD FWICHERS AND PARENTS INSPIRED THE LEGISLATION. >> THIS IS THE NOTE THAT I FOUND ON MY 9-YEAR-OLD SON, SITTING IN THE DARK, AFTER A ...

A growing number of educators are turning to 'strategic noticing'—a strengths-based approach to classroom behavior management that emphasizes reinforcing positive actions over reacting to negative ...

Millions of classrooms throughout the U.S. and internationally have begun adopting computerized apps (e.g., ClassDojo) to provide students with rewards and punishments as a part of classroom ...

When still a teacher, I considered my building principal a consequence vending machine. When all else failed, press H5 for an in-school suspension. Having been on both sides now, I realize that the ...

A much-discussed bill meant to give teachers more control over classroom discipline issues failed to complete the legislative process. The House and Senate passed separate bills focused on how to ...

New discipline guidelines for public school students will go into effect across Washington state next month. While educators say the changes are necessary to address disruptive post-pandemic classroom ...

Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

The simple two-letter word was all it took to set off chaos at Heritage Rose Elementary last week. About a hundred children were sitting cross-legged in a hallway, ready to be dismissed to go home, ...