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 ...

I once had a principal whose core beginning-of-the-year discipline strategy was insisting, in August meetings, that the first day of any school year should be dominated by reading, illustrating, ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What are the best ways to introduce classroom rules in creative ways on my large classes (30-40 students per class)? That was the submitted question, and the one I ...

High school teacher Monte Syrie admitted that he wants his students to succeed, and that means getting rid of the textbook classroom rules. High school is already a social minefield for teenagers, and ...