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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...