When a new student in a special education classroom arrives after the year has started, begin with the paperwork and the people: read the IEP, meet with your special education director, and brief your paraprofessional. Then build the relationship. Federal law also obligates the district to provide comparable services right ...

The best picture books about bullying give kids language for what they're seeing: the child being targeted, the child doing the targeting, and the bystanders who could step in. This list of 20 covers all three roles, with a suggested read-aloud band for each so you can match a title ...

A flexible seating classroom swaps assigned desks for a mix of seating types: floor pillows, stools, standing desks, and rockers that students choose based on the work they're doing. Paired with Daily 5's gathering-space model, it may help reduce off-task behavior and support engagement, while giving students a real say ...

The practical answer to how to teach empathy is structural: build it into what students do every day instead of teaching it once. An SEL curriculum, a supervised playground, kindness recognition, service projects, and restorative discipline can help develop empathy and prosocial behavior by giving students regular chances to practice ...

Relational trust in schools is the confidence that colleagues, leaders, students and families will do their jobs and follow through on what they say. Bryk and Schneider identified four parts: respect, personal regard for others, competence, and integrity. In their study of Chicago elementary schools, higher-trust schools were more likely ...

Four behavioral terms cause the most confusion in school meetings: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, function, and extinction. A reward isn’t automatically positive reinforcement; negative reinforcement removes something aversive rather than punishing; function is the consequence maintaining a behavior; and extinction is the procedure of discontinuing that reinforcement. Featured Programs: Sponsored School(s) Liberty University Featured ...

Community bullying prevention works when the school stops carrying the effort alone. Local businesses, police, service clubs, faith groups, and parents each take a visible role, so students hear the same message everywhere they go. The 13 ideas below are ones we have actually run in our own district. Featured Programs: Sponsored ...

The main types of cyberbullying are outing, harassment and name-calling, catfishing with fake accounts, sharing explicit or humiliating images, forwarding hurtful posts, and threats or intimidation. Repetition and a power imbalance are central to how bullying is defined, though conduct like threats, stalking, or non-consensual image sharing can require a ...

The types of bullying in schools fall into three behavior categories (verbal, physical, and psychological) plus cyberbullying, which cuts across all three. All four share the same markers: unwanted aggression, a power imbalance, and repetition or a high likelihood of it. Which type you're looking at shapes how you document ...

To regain control of a classroom, stop escalating consequences and start changing conditions. Repeated behavior may reflect dysregulation, unmet needs, skill deficits, environmental factors, or other causes worth assessing first. Calming spaces, scheduled breaks, flexible seating, and alternative ways to show work can give students more control over their day. Featured ...