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Moment by Moment: An Instructional Approach to Positive Behavior

By: Tricia Wells

Positive student behavior develops from expectations, relationships, and direct instruction. Although many schoolwide discipline efforts focus on systems, rules, and consequences, they often overlook effective response strategies to students’ misbehavior. Without straightforward approaches to teach, encourage, and correct behavior moment by moment, discipline efforts can fall short of changing student behavior. When asked why they

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Academic Lifeguards: Saving Students

By: Sherri Nelson

Academic lifeguards are on duty, on guard, and willing to jump in when necessary. You are a lifeguard on a beach and you see a child engulfed by an enormous wave, then struggling to keep her head above water. You use every skill you have to prevent the child from drowning. Academic lifeguards are no

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Bridging the Literacy Gap in Science

By: Theressa Varner

Meeting new science standards can be hard for students who struggle with reading and writing. How do you teach the new science standards to students who struggle with reading and writing? Many middle school science teachers face this dilemma, which is especially challenging for science educators at my school. Like many urban schools across the

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Literature Circles: Student-Driven Instruction

By: Samantha Schnoor

Literature circles bring reading to life for these sixth graders. What did we just read? I am so bored! Why are we reading this? What’s the point? Sound familiar? These were some of the responses to reading that I received during my first year teaching bright and talented sixth graders. How could 24 students, who

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Leadership: Three Emotional Mind Traps

By: Ruby K. Payne

How can you determine if your decisions are colored by emotion? Have you ever: Made a decision that backfired? Thought that hindsight is 20/20? Wished you had made a different decision? As they share in their February 3, 2009, Harvard Business Review article “Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions,” Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, and Sydney Finkelstein, researchers

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Moment by Moment: An Instructional Approach to Positive Behavior

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