During his 1983 NCAA championship run, legendary North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano was asked by a reporter if he held “bed check” when the team was on the road. “Absolutely,” replied ...

This spring, fourth-graders in a Tallahassee, Fla., classroom chronicled the life cycle of plants. Preschoolers in Mesa, Ariz., practiced Spanish, and special education students in Phoenix ...

In As a Rule, Forget About Rules, I asserted that most classroom disciplinary rules are unnecessary, which raises the question: What rules are necessary? And the answer, of course, is going to vary ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington is modifying the rules for how teachers handle disruptive students in the classroom. The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) has worked on ...

Pakefield High School introduced the new classroom rules at the start of the academic year A parent has described a new set of classroom rules implemented at a school, which includes giving pupils a ...

“That’s not fair!” “She hit me on purpose.” “He’s not following the rules.” Issues of right and wrong come up in classrooms all the time, and it can be hard to know how to deal with them. Punching a ...

So, there you are at Back to School Night. The teacher seems great, so you exhale and wedge yourself into that tiny little seat. You write a note to your child about how wonderful kindergarten/first ...

One of the inevitable first-day-of-school tasks for elementary teachers (and many secondary teachers) is introducing the class rules. So it’s no wonder teacher-bloggers have taken up the topic this ...