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Interesting view on education by John Taylor Gatto.

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Article by Harry and Rosemary Wong from Teachers.net

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A video on "positive discipline" from Edutopia. I'm not sure that I agree with the first two strategies as they seem to isolate and possibly shame the student which does not seem productive to me. Did standing in a corner ever work for you? I like the idea of mediation between students, however. What do you think?

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Quote of the Day

"Education is all a matter of building bridges."   Ralph Ellison

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Quote of the Day

"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along." Eleanor Roosevelt

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A video on transitions in the classroom.

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Quote of the Day

"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Carol Buchner

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Quote of the Day

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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A great video on classroom management for new teachers from Teaching Channel.

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Quote of the Day

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or honor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized" Haim Ginott (1991)

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Here's a great archived group discussion with lots of  good advice on classroom management.

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A great video on how good strategies turned around a poorly managed school.

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Quote of the Day

"Teachers play various roles in a typical classroom, but surely one of the most important is that of classroom manager. Effective teaching and learning cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom...But a well-managed classroom doesn't just appear out of nowhere. It takes a good deal of effort to create - and the person who is most responsible for creating it is [YOU] the teacher" (Marzano, Marzano & Pickering, 2003, 1).