(3/9) Students had choices about seating/standing spaces, lighting, connections to learning, & ways to express & monitor how they wanted to show up. I helped them connect their values to their actions.
This was almost always messy at the beginning of the year, AND we built a community.
This was almost always messy at the beginning of the year, AND we built a community.
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His family said, "He does better in really strict classrooms. Don't let him do X."
I said, "Would you be open to trying X strategy to see if he can learn how to regulate before entering the classroom?"
And here's the thing...this wonderful and amazing kid had spend NINE years of school complying and learning to "behave" by not tapping his knee constantly and suppressing his emotions.
The things he learned he brain could do when school bent just a little to who he was were truly AMAZING.
He also learned that he loved learning and could like school.
And then the next year, all the teacher wanted was compliance.
Schools can do better.