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Classroom Management

Finding Time for a One-on-One Problem-Solving Conference

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Challenging Behaviors, Classroom Management
You’ve got a student who is really struggling. Almost every day during math, he’s disrupting students nearby. You want to sit down with him for a problem-solving conference to figure out what’s going on. Maybe the two of you can
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5 Reasons to Not Use Incentives This Year (and 5 Things to Do Instead)

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Teacher Talk, Teaching Strategies
Classroom management and academic engagement are two of the most important aspects of getting off to a great start in the new school year. Though gem/marble jars, tickets, clip charts, and other incentive systems (including traditional grades) are common throughout
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Struggling with Motivation? Try Engaging Students with Project-Based Learning!

  • By Amy Difeo
  • In Classroom Management, Great Academic Work, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Student Choice, Teaching Strategies
Are you a teacher struggling to keep your students engaged? You’re not alone. A team of teachers at Sandown North Elementary School faced similar challenges, witnessing a decline in student engagement and an uptick in students that were dysregulated. Instead
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Classroom Management 101: A Refresher

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Social and Emotional Learning, Teaching Strategies, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
You may think of the first weeks of school as a time to focus on classroom management, and it is. But in fact, all year long, we should consider classroom management an active part of our daily teaching. How do
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Whole Class Lessons: The Most Efficient, Least Effective Form of Instruction

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work, Teaching Strategies
Kathy Collins and I were co-teaching a summer workshop for teachers on how to teach reading effectively. We were sharing about different kinds of direct instruction—various ways we can teach students the skills, strategies, and mindsets they need to be
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How is a Great Learning Environment Like a Three-Legged Stool?

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning, Teaching Strategies, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
A great learning environment is like a three-legged stool. Ruth Charney first introduced this concept to me years ago. It’s an important idea to keep in mind all year long, but it’s crucial during the first weeks of school. The
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3 Ways to Pace Yourself (and Your Students) This School Year

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning, Teaching Strategies, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
A few years ago my wife gave me three months of coaching for my birthday. I’d been running 5K road races and was trying some half-marathons. She thought I could use some professional help!  We connected online, and I sent
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Be Curious, Not Judgmental

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning, Ted Lasso
My wife and I loved watching Ted Lasso. In fact, when our daughter came home from college for the holidays, we got her into it and watched both seasons again! One of the most powerful and uplifting scenes comes in
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Be a Goldfish

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Mike's Blog, Social and Emotional Learning, Ted Lasso
Even if you haven’t binge-watched Ted Lasso like I have (twice!), you’ve probably heard of it. In this blog post, we’ll explore one of Ted Lasso’s classic lines: Be a Goldfish and consider how it might help us when we’ve
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Beyond Behaviorism: Three Key Strategies

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, For Parents, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning, Teaching Strategies
A Brief History of Behaviorism, Part 5 If you could travel back in time about 60 years and walk through a typical school, you might be surprised to find something missing. You wouldn’t see behavior charts or “star student” award
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The Factory Model of Schooling

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, For Parents, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning
A Brief History of Behaviorism, Part 4 If you could travel back in time about 60 years and walk through a typical school, you might be surprised to find something missing. You wouldn’t see behavior charts or “star student” award
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What If There’s More to Behavior than Behaviors?

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, For Parents, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning
A Brief History of Behaviorism, Part 3 If you could travel back in time about 60 years and walk through a typical school, you might be surprised to find something missing. You wouldn’t see behavior charts or “star student” award
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BF Skinner and Token Economy Systems

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, For Parents, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning
A Brief History of Behaviorism, Part 2 If you could travel back in time about 60 years and walk through a typical school, you might be surprised to find something missing. You wouldn’t see behavior charts or “star student” award
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Drooling Dogs and the Birth of Behaviorism

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Blog, Classroom Management, For Parents, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning, Teaching Strategies
A Brief History of Behaviorism, Part 1 If you could travel back in time about 60 years and walk through a typical school, you might be surprised to find something missing. You wouldn’t see behavior charts or “star student” award
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Do Your Students Seem Young?

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Mike's Blog, Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher Talk, Teaching Strategies, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Do your students seem young this year? You’re not alone. In every single school I’m working in this year—with no exceptions—teachers are saying the same kinds of things. This shouldn’t be surprising. Students always seem a bit young in the
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Weave SEL Into Your Daily Teaching: A 4-Step Process

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Social and Emotional Learning, Teaching Strategies
It is now widely recognized that social-emotional learning (SEL) should be an integral part of teaching and learning in schools. Yet it sometimes feels so overwhelming. SEL is just so…BIG. How do you know where to start? Some districts purchase
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15 Strategies for Learning Students’ Names

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Mike's Blog, Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher Talk, Teaching Strategies, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
“To weave the magic of a thing, you see, one must find its true name. In my lands we keep our true names hidden all our lives long, from all but those we trust utterly; for there is great power,
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Consistency Is Key in the Last Weeks of School

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Mike's Blog, Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher Talk, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
The last weeks of school are a tumultuous time of transition. Not all students look forward to summer vacation, and even ones who do are likely anxious about next year. For some students, next year brings a new school, not
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4 Things to Stop Saying to Your Students: Resolution Ideas for Teachers

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work, Mike's Blog, Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher Talk, Teaching Strategies, Uncategorized
Teacher language can be a great focus for a New Year’s resolution. After all, we all use language with students, and we all surely have some habits that could use some refinement. Often, some of our language habits don’t line
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3 Reasons + 5 Tips = GR8 Games

  • By Sarah Fillion
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Equity, From Surviving to Thriving, From Surviving to Thriving, Great Academic Work, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Teaching Strategies
Games can boost engagement and learning for students while also reducing teacher workload--a win-win!
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Routines to Teach: Fall of 2020

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Mike's Blog, Professional Development, Social and Emotional Learning, Teaching Strategies, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year, Uncategorized
Last week I had the privilege of teaching two online workshops for teachers about getting ready for the upcoming school year. They were both so much fun! We played games that teachers can use with their students (either in person
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Avoid the “If-Then” Trap

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management
We want students to be more than compliant, don’t we? In addition to doing the right things, we want them to do so for the right reasons. We want students to pick up trash to keep the room clean, to be
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Getting Consistent with Consequences

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management
Consequences are complicated. You can’t have an effective approach to discipline without them, yet they can’t be the focus of discipline either. In schools, there are often many different opinions about what appropriate consequences are and how they should be
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Our Classroom Walls

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
This article appeared in the Responsive Classroom Newsletter: November 2015 (https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/article/our-classroom-walls) During the school day we spend most of our time in our classroom and so do twenty to thirty students (give or take a few!). Many of us feel
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What’s in a Name?

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
How do you refer to the students in your class when addressing them? At first glance, this may seem like a trivial issue; but consider how many times throughout the day we speak to students to get their attention. The
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