The Positive Classroom: Emotional Skills

The Positive Classroom: Emotional Skills:           The children who have so much trouble behaving in school often need help developing emotional skills. Although many of us understa...

The Positive Classroom: Working with Children with ADHD in the classroom

The Positive Classroom: Working with Children with ADHD in the classroom:      One of the questions I get asked frequently is how to help children who have been diagnosed (or should be diagnosed) with ADHD. Since A...

The Positive Classroom: Are the Children Pushing Your Buttons?

The Positive Classroom: Are the Children Pushing Your Buttons?:        We all have our “hot buttons” that children push. Take a moment to think about the children’s behaviors that really bother you. Fo...

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior: The education news last week in New Jersey focused on a teacher who got caught bullying a 15-year-old child. The child captured the teache...

The Positive Classroom: Staying Calm When Children Use Challenging Behavio...

The Positive Classroom: Staying Calm When Children Use Challenging Behavio...:           While discussing the acting out cycle this week, we started considering how difficult it is to stay calm when a child is violent,...

The Positive Classroom: Using Logical Consequences for Children’s Inapprop...

The Positive Classroom: Using Logical Consequences for Children’s Inapprop...: One of my students asked me this week if it was okay that she stopped a 1 st grade child from eating breakfast because she had been chatti...

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior: The education news last week in New Jersey focused on a teacher who got caught bullying a 15-year-old child. The child captured the teache...