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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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Success in School and Beyond

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media
This article, published through the UNH Extensions blog, highlights a workshop I taught in northern, NH. It was an energizing and exciting day! https://extension.unh.edu/blog/success-school-and-beyond
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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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Educators Increasingly Struggle with Moral Injury

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media, Interviews, Teaching Strategy
In this article published in District Administration, I share some thoughts about the challenges some educators face when they feel that district policies around discipline are at odds with their own core values.
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The Atlantic: The Disproportionate Stress Plaguing American Teachers

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media, Interviews
In this Atlantic article, Tim Walker explores some of the potential negative impacts of high levels of stress in American teachers. He also pokes at some of the reasons American teachers are burning out at such alarming rates. I was
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Help Students Choose to Learn

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media
This session summary appeared in the Conference Daily, the daily newspaper for the ASCD Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 2-4, 2016. The original link is: http://annualconference.ascd.org/attendee/conference-daily/2016/choose-to-learn.aspx. April Bailey Too often, students figure out what they’re supposed to do based
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Self-Esteem: Can We Hand It to Our Kids on a Silver Platter? (Committee for Children Blogs)

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media
Original article: http://www.cfchildren.org/about-us/blogs/self-esteem-can-we-hand-it-to-our-kids-on-a-silver-platter Published on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 Happy National Boost-Your-Self-Esteem Month! How are you celebrating? I’ve decided to mark the occasion by exploring where the self-esteem “movement” is today. First, though, some thoughts on self-esteem boosting in my
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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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Response: Students Develop Grit By ‘Taking Charge Of Their Own Learning’

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media
This post originally appeared in Education Week Teacher (blog) on October 7, 2015. By Larry Ferlazzo on October 7, 2015 4:45 PM (This is the second post in a three-part series on “grit.” You
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Social-Emotional Learning and Academics: Better Together

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Great Academic Work
This article was published in the October 2015 edition of Educational Leadership (Emotionally Healthy Kids) as an online-only article. It explores how social and emotional skills are woven throughout the Common Core State Standards and what that means for good
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7 Habits of a Healthy Educator

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Health and Balance, In the Media, Interviews
This article appeared on the NEA Member Benefits site: http://www.neamb.com/professional-resources/healthy-educator-habits.htm?utm_source=TWCD0915&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wall-post With each school year comes the chance to be proactive about your health. You can fight off chronic low energy, constant sniffles and stress headaches before they pull
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Time Management Tips to Help Achieve a Work-Life Balance–NEA Member Benefits

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media, Interviews
Original Article: http://www.neamb.com/professional-resources/how-to-achieve-classroom-family-balance-guilt-free.htm You don’t have to choose between being a good parent and being a good teacher with these helpful productivity tips. For Mike Anderson, fatherhood felt like a second full-time job. He
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Beating Teacher Burnout – Scholastic

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media, Interviews
Orignial Article: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/beating-teacher-burnout What Causes Burnout? On top of everyday stressors like scant resources and long hours, there’s a surprising culprit behind many cases of burnout: teachers’ own beliefs that they’re not able to do all the different (and changing) parts
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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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Helping teachers survive in – and out of – the classroom – The Mindful Teacher

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles
Original Article: http://highviewmindfulness.blogspot.com/2014/08/blog-post.html Helping teachers survive in- and out of- the classroom I sometimes have a fantasy that I will be exiled to a deserted island, and that I can only take with me a handful of books. What would I
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Books on Positive Thinking – The Cornerstone

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles
Original Article: http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/free-resources/encouragement-and-inspiration/books-on-positive-thinking The Well-Balanced Teacher: How to Work Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out is a new book by Mike Anderson. I heard his presentation at an ASCD conference and really enjoyed his perspective. He explains the
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No Ordinary Monday

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management
December 16, 2012, Responsive Classroom Blog, Original Link: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/no-ordinary-monday Teachers, principals, and other school staff nationwide are thinking about what to do and what to say tomorrow when they and their students return to school in
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Every Teacher Series Makes AEP Finals!

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media, Press Releases
by Richard Henning on May 31, 2012 Great news! Our six-book series What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Setting Up and Running a Classroom K–5 has been selected as one of seven
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ASCD Annual Conference Session: Classroom Management for New Teachers

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media
Original Article: http://www.ascd.org/conferences/conference-daily/ac12/classroom-management.aspx Effective Classroom Management for New Teachers Avoiding Mistakes, Positive Reinforcement Christine Fisher In many fields, professionals say you need to log 10,000 hours to become an expert. For new teachers, that can take about five years, and those
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Lining Up

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management
“Mr. Anderson! Kelsey cut in line!” calls out Nicole. “No I didn’t! I was here a second ago. I just had to get my lunch ticket!” Kelsey retorts. The fourth grade girls glare at each other
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The Trouble with Testing

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Great Academic Work
When I first began my teaching career in the early 1990’s, it felt like an exciting time to be in education. There was incredible momentum building for rich, multi-layered, developmentally appropriate teaching. The reading and
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Communicating with Parents

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
To teach well, we must know children well, and parents can help us do that better than anyone. Parents can share knowledge of their child’s strengths and challenges, unique perspectives, and other invaluable
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Teacher Stress and Student Behavior

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Health and Balance
“Do School Cuts Lead to Stressed Students?“, a blog post by Sue Shellenbarger at the The Wall Street Journal, caught my eye recently. Shellenbarger cites a study of 10,700 parents and teachers of first graders that
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Bringing the School Year to a Strong Finish

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Responsive Classroom Newsletter: April 2011 The end of the school year is an emotional time. By this time, many students (and teachers!) are eager for summer vacation, yet many children
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