Teach.Thrive.Triumph.

I know I wasn't the only one with this face after the week of online zoom!  At the end of the week when I looked at the number of students who had actually finished their assignments I was completely devastated.  That weekend I quickly brainstormed some PBIS ideas that I could easily and quickly implement into my online classroom.  I needed something that was easy to maintain and that did not cost any money. The first positive behavior support that I started was game time.  Every Friday morning, I would check all the students work.  Any student who finished all their assignments would receive an online zoom code link in their email.  I only shared this zoom code with the students who were done.  Then, Fridays at noon, we would all login and play math games together, such as prodigy or sumdog.  While I am not necessarily sold on these online games from a content and educational standpoint, I do know that my students love them, so I use them ...

This guy fills my month of August.  Every educator knows that every school year must start with the routines and procedures that Harry Wong outlines in his classroom management books.  When the year starts off strong with routines and procedures in place, they become normalcy.  However, this year had a completely different turn of events.  This is the first year that I had to revisit Mr. Wong in APRIL! After my first week of zoom sessions, I realized that something needed to change quickly.  As I was turning my wheels, I realized that I needed to re-set my classroom environment, culture, procedures and expectations.  In this whole new environment, students no longer understood the behavioral expectations that were required of them.  I quickly had to re-outline what those expectations were and have the students practice their online routines.  Below I came up with a couple quick steps to quickly place some routines and expectations into your zoo...