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...

technology rocks. seriously.: School Signs

technology rocks. seriously.: School Signs: Just click on the printable to go to the downloadable PDF version.  You can also right click and save each image as a JPG.  If you hav...

Math-n-spire: Area & Perimeter {Math Lab on Rectangles}

Math-n-spire: Area & Perimeter {Math Lab on Rectangles}: In addition to teaching middle school math, I am also teaching high school Geometry this year. I hated Geometry when I was in school, but n...

Math-n-spire: Math Notebook {Notes}

Math-n-spire: Math Notebook {Notes}: After my post on Integers , I received a few emails and comments asking for more pictures on the "math notebook". So I've put together a ste...

Origami poesie di carta: Bialbero di Natale (multialbero)

Origami poesie di carta: Bialbero di Natale (multialbero): Nel progettare questo modello ho pensato ai bambini, quindi a qualcosa di semplice da piegare e nello stesso tempo versatile. ...