Dad Says He Refused to Let His Son’s Principal Blame His Learning Disability for Behavioral Issues Without Getting a Second Opinion, Now the School Says He’s ...

When the phone call came from the school, Daniel expected to hear about another missing assignment or a disagreement on the playground.
Psychology Today

Know Your Triggers and Admit Your Abusive Behavior

Additional steps toward identifying and eliminating abusive behavior: Know your triggers and admit your abusive behavior ...

‘Better behaviour, more focus’: how a scheme to provide pupils with fresh fruit and veg transformed learning

More than 500 schools across the UK now receive free fruit and veg from Tesco – the initiative has improved kids’ health and concentration, but it’s also helping to build positive habits that can last ...

Student-led program results in fewer disciplinary actions in Pittsburgh schools

Pittsburgh Public Schools attributes a significant reduction in disciplinary incidents to a teen-focused program called “Safe ...

Isolation as a form of discipline: How should schools manage poor student behavior?

Last week, a group of parents strongly criticized prestigious Victorian private school Geelong Grammar for using isolation as ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Students Use A.I. in the Classroom Can Be a Difficult Choice. Why One Educator Thinks It’s Imperative to Teach Learners to Use It Ethically and Responsibly

As the nation marks its 250 anniversary, the Smithsonian invites educators to imagine the future we want to build. High school teacher Casey Cuny of California addresses the state of artificial ...
Groton Herald

State-Mandated Timeout Policy Revives Earlier Classroom Concerns

Two years after concerns about classroom disruptions and teacher safety surfaced publicly in Groton-Dunstable, the School Committee last week adopted a new state-mandated student timeout policy that ...
The Salem News

How to give more attention to positive behaviors than negative ones in the classroom

I’ve heard you say in trainings that you should notice kids once every 90 seconds, and I do that. My question is: How much noticing is too much noticing? Does noticing kids this often train them to ...
The Conversation

Bullying is common in elementary school – and it’s more likely to happen in classrooms that are chaotic

About 1 in 4 elementary students in the United States reports being bullied at least once during a given school year. Children who are frequently bullied are more likely to struggle in school, ...
CNN

Report details suspect’s behavior in 2023, years before killings of University of South Florida doctoral students

Three years before he was accused of killing two doctoral students in Florida, a domestic violence incident with Hisham Abugharbieh’s brother and mother highlighted his family’s concerns about what ...
Education Week

Aspiring Teachers Aren’t Being Prepared to Handle Student Behavior Problems

Managing student behavior is a perennial teaching challenge—and one novice teachers invariably feel unprepared to face, amid rising reports of class disruptions, student mental health problems, and ...
The Atlantic

In Praise of ‘Difficult’ Kids

In 1996, I was a freshly minted high-school history teacher offering a lesson about the presidential election. Ned, who sat in the back row, was doing what Ned always did: making his classmates laugh.