News: Classroom Management

The Denial of Dreams: Disproportionate School Discipline is about Discrimination, Not DEI

This article summarizes the latest research that reveals that Black students are suspended from school at 3.8 times the rate of White students—due to systematic racial bias. It reviews research statin...

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Improving School Climate and Student Engagement: The Final Piece of (and Assembling) the School Success Puzzle (Part V)

This final Blog in a five-part “school success” series focuses on School Climate and Student Engagement as both the foundation and culmination of the other four areas: Quality Instruction, Discipline...

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Evaluating the Essential Characteristics of Staff Cohesion and Collaboration: Assessing This Summer What You Want to See This Fall (Part IV)

The Blog discusses the seven characteristics (the “7 C’s”) of staff cohesion and collaboration: Communication, Caring, Commitment, Collaboration, Consultation, Celebration, and Consistency. The resear...

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School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management: The Summer Preparations Needed for Excellence This Fall (Part II)

The Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to improve school discipline, classroom management, and student self-management during the coming new school year. It first describes th...

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Minimizing Classroom Distractions to Maximize Student Learning: Building Walls to Buffer Politics, Phones, Prejudice, and Preferential Treatment

This Blog analyzes the impact of external political and internal classroom distractions on teachers’ ability to teach and students’ ability to learn. It presents research that dismisses political atta...

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Students’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss

This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...

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