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The Heartbreak Surrounding Student Behavior and Teacher Attrition in America’s Schools

June 16, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Children with difficulty controlling their behavior and emotions, large classes, unsupportive administrators, outside interference, and overwhelmed teachers who aren’t behavior specialists can be a recipe for disaster for students and a reason why teachers leave. I wrote much of this post in February 2020, before schools closed due to Covid-19. As schools get back to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, cameras in the classroom, class management, class size and behavior, Corporal Punishment, counselors, emotional behavioral disabilities, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), paraprofessionals, prepared teachers, residential placement, resource officers, restorative practice, room clearing, School Psychologists, schools as mental health service providers, seclusion and restraint, Social-emotional learning SEL, special class placement, special education, student abuse, student behavior, supportive administration, teacher abuse

Seclusion and Restraint: 16 Ways to Address Acting Out Behavior Without It

December 13, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Restraint or seclusion should not be used as routine school safety measures; that is, they should not be implemented except in situations where a child’s behavior poses imminent danger of serious physical harm to self or others and not as a routine strategy implemented to address instructional problems or inappropriate behavior (e.g., disrespect, noncompliance, insubordination, […]

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tultican Thomas Ultican @tultican ·
20 Sep

Nancy Bailey looks at how the inheritors of the education hit piece, A Nation at Risk, continue to depend on forcing toddlers to grow faster, somehow. #inappropriate

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19 Sep

First, children are pushed to read before they're ready, and then they fail third grade because they need more time to learn to be better readers. How does this create better readers? Children will hate reading.

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19 Sep

Research is clear: Third-grade retention is an unnecessary, ineffective practice that demoralizes children. @SecCardona should speak to this terrible practice.

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The creation of the American Climate Corps will mobilize young people who care so deeply about the future of our planet and who are ready to take on the existential threat of climate change. It's a good start. Let’s go forward together.

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Research is clear: Third-grade retention is an unnecessary, ineffective practice that demoralizes children. @SecCardona should speak to this terrible practice. https://www.wsfa.com/2023/09/14/12k-third-graders-risk-being-held-back-under-alabama-literacy-act-superintendent-warns/?fbclid=IwAR1CHkRIZN1CmXlVuA_uTS6zU8IQOGO0_FkQPuAHvW_tKX2Ose25DLeuRdQ

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