US EditionThe Kid Whisperer: How educators can teach kids to be better people
- Scott Ervin, principal of a private K-8 school, addresses how to improve student behavior amid deteriorating dynamics by mid-year.
- He explains that warm-fuzzy methods dominate but often fail as disruptions grow worse despite staff efforts and high parental academic expectations.
- Ervin illustrates handling a disruptive student, Kid #14, who invades peer space and briefly pauses before continuing the behavior in an eighth-grade setting.
- The principal calmly addresses Kid #14 by whispering and assigns a research project on why harassment harms others, aiming to avoid lost class time or misdirected attention.
- This Learning Opportunity approach seeks to create a better environment without stopping instruction and shifts control away from the worst-behaved students.
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The Kid Whisperer: How educators can teach kids to be better people
PART II of II Dear Kid Whisperer, I am the principal of a private, secular K-8 school. Every year that I have been principal, the behaviors start out fine in the fall, and slowly deteriorate after that, no matter how…
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