Episode 383: Breaking Down Executive Functions and Emotional Regulation with Dr. Nicole Tibbits
Executive function is one of those terms we hear all the time, but what does it actually look like in the classroom? In this episode, Dr. Nicole Tibbits breaks down executive function in plain languag...
12 Okt 30min
Episode 382: The Honeymoon is Over, Now What?
If your class fell apart this week and September felt fine, you're not doing anything wrong - this is the week it always happens. Novelty wears off around week four or five, students start testing the...
5 Okt 9min
Episode 381: Don't Let August Prompts Become May Habits
In this episode, we're talking about prompt fading and why the start of the school year is the perfect time to plan for it. Those first weeks are naturally full of support, but the prompts we add in A...
28 Sep 11min
Episode 380: The Way You are Giving Verbal Directions May be Causing Problem Behaviors
Sometimes the off-task behavior, the wandering, the "he just won't listen" moment isn't defiance at all - it's confusion. When a direction is unclear, students don't know what we expect, so they fill ...
21 Sep 13min
Episode 379: Data Collection Has Become Performative - Not Functional
When is the last time your data actually changed a decision you made? In this episode, we're getting honest about the difference between data collection and data use - and how compliance culture has t...
7 Sep 9min
Episode 378: Social Skills Instruction is Imbalanced
Name a student who crushed your social skills curriculum and still eats alone at lunch. In this episode, we're asking why - and the answer has a lot to do with how we're delivering instruction. We tal...
31 Aug 7min
Episode 377: We Talk About Student Regulation but Not Enough About Teacher Regulation
We have calm-down kits for our students, co-regulation protocols, and zones of regulation posters on the wall. But nobody talks about what happens when the teacher is the dysregulated one. In this epi...
24 Aug 6min
Episode 376: Most Classroom Reward Systems Accidentally Teach the Wrong Things
What happens to behavior in your classroom when you forget the reinforcers? If the answer is 'everything falls apart' - that tells you something important about your system. In this episode, we're tal...
17 Aug 8min
