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When Children are Unable to Regulate their Behaviors and Emotions

March 6, 2015 in Blog, default, Features Tagged: Behavior, Educators, Engagement, Parents, Relationships

When Children are Unable to Regulate their Behaviors and Emotions

During this winter season when I am confronted with an unhappy student who can't easily or is unwilling to follow directions, I find it helpful to pause and remember some important principles of behavior management. Here are some thoughts to remember when children are unable or unwilling to regulate their behaviors and emotions: You can't control another person's behavior, only your own response. No matter what it seems, students do not want to be in control of the … [Read more...]

Author: Melanie Tringali Leave a Comment

Flying Below the Teachers’ ADHD Radar Screen

July 6, 2014 in Best Practices, INSPIRE 2014, Parenting, Research Tagged: Approaches, Behavior, Parents, Relationships

Flying Below the Teachers’ ADHD Radar Screen

The following blog post is contributed by Dr. Anthony Rao a nationally known expert in child psychology, and author of The Way of Boys.  Dr. Rao will be a speaker at the INSPIRE 2014 Conference in October 2014.Getting noticed or standing out is usually a good thing, but not for American boys in school. Their diagnoses for ADHD continue to be too high. What drives this? In my practice, it seems to be coming from teachers. They don't realize it, but over the last few years they have been … [Read more...]

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Three Ways Educators Can Support Girls

April 22, 2014 in Features, INSPIRE 2014, Research, Resources Tagged: Approaches, Educators, Relationships

Three Ways Educators Can Support Girls

Contributed by Dr. Rachel Kramer*   Research shows that there is a strong link between a girls socio-emotional competence and their chance of success and performance in learning, and educators must equip themselves with methods that they can employ in the classroom to encourage and support this type of development in girls.  The following are strategies  that can be employed now by educators to support girls:  1. Build a sense of self-efficacy, encourage problem … [Read more...]

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Sanity and Humanity

March 5, 2014 in Features Tagged: Educators, Relationships

Sanity and Humanity

As  teachers in a school serving students with special needs, we have a little bit of advice we give one another from time to time. It comes in the form of an acronym – QTIP. When our students let loose on us in their anguish, anger, or misery, and we’re in danger of feeling overwhelmed, our colleagues will remind us to Quit Taking It Personally. If we were to take all our students’ pain and anger to heart we would quickly burn out or become basket  cases unable to help ourselves or our … [Read more...]

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Comments On “Confessions of a Bad Teacher”

November 21, 2012 in Features Tagged: Assessment, Differentiated Learning, Educators, NCLB, Relationships, Student-Centered Education

Comments On “Confessions of a Bad Teacher”

There is really nothing surprising about William Johnson’s op ed in The New York Times Sunday Review. Mr. Johnson eloquently describes the plight of many teachers in contemporary urban American schools under the peculiar and confused pressure of state and national efforts to reform education through reliance on high stakes testing. Mr. Johnson has the courage and patience to work with some of the most difficult students encountered in a public high school. These students do not receive high … [Read more...]

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Helping Students To Develop Self-Awareness

September 21, 2012 in Features Tagged: Educators, Relationships

Helping Students To Develop Self-Awareness

Many years ago, I took driver’s ed. my senior year in high school. I don’t remember seeing the graphic movies about irresponsible teenagers driving badly, but I do remember we practiced using machines called simulators. The simulator was a boxy affair that one sat in with the basic layout of a car—steering wheel, brake and gas pedal, turn signal. They were as realistic as the original bridge of the Starship Enterprise. All students sat in their simulators and watched a large movie screen in the … [Read more...]

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A New Driver for Expanding Access to Early Education?

September 15, 2012 in Features, Policy Issues Tagged: Approaches, Differentiated Learning, Educators, Engagement, Mental Health, Relationships, Resources, Student Voice, Student-Centered Education

A New Driver for Expanding Access to Early Education?

"Parents—and this is a real sea change—understand the infant-toddle years as learning years." —Betty Holcomb, Policy Director, Children's Initiatives   An article recently posted in the Wall Street Journal focused on the growing competition to find excellent early childhood programs in New York City. The change in this case is that the demand appears to be driven by affluent parents who are newly convinced that their very young children need the stimulation and guided instruction available … [Read more...]

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Opportunities for Meaningful Education

May 23, 2012 in Best Practices, Features Tagged: Extended Learning, Mental Health, Relationships

Opportunities for Meaningful Education

When I first started working at Dearborn Academy, I had a colleague who'd been around for a number of years.  He had a gentle soul and his love and respect for our students was manifest. One day the two of us were playing a pickup game of basketball, a game at which he excelled, against a pair of middle schoolers.  I wasn't sure how hard I should be playing against such over-matched opponents, and when I got a chance to do so unobtrusively I asked how hard we should try to win.His response … [Read more...]

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Creating a Culture of Collaborative Problem Solving at Seaport Academy

April 26, 2012 in Features Tagged: Differentiated Learning, Extended Learning, High School, Project Based Learning, Relationships, Special Education

Creating a Culture of Collaborative Problem Solving at Seaport Academy

Seaport Academy was recently recognized in The Navy Yard News, a quarterly publication of the friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard, as emphasizing collaborative problem solving and a curriculum designed to be flexible enough to meet the wide variety of learning needs presented by their students.Here is the story: “We’ve scrapped the usual style of ‘reward-consequence’ learning in favor of collaboration — students identify issues and help solve problems together,” says Alex Tsonas, Director … [Read more...]

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On Teaching Woodshop

April 19, 2012 in Best Practices, Features Tagged: Engagement, Relationships, Special Education

On Teaching Woodshop

When I tell people I teach woodshop to special needs students I am fairly certain to receive one of a couple of responses. Particularly when I first started, people would go on about what a noble thing I was doing. I don’t get that as much these days, and I don’t know whether that is a sign of the times or something about the way I now explain my work.People also tend to tell me about their own shop experience and how they still have this or that old shop project hidden away somewhere (that … [Read more...]

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