by Kristie Pretti-Frontczack | Nov 4, 2021 | Behavior, Blog, Inclusion
You are a teacher because you are passionate about education and children. Sometimes, however, you will have students with behaviors that challenge you. Although it is seductive to look for quick fixes like behavior charts or using rewards and punishments. Such...
by Kristie Pretti-Frontczack | Feb 20, 2024 | Behavior, Blog, Self-regulation, Solutions
Public displays of children's behaviors need to stop! Based on our experiences, and the opinions and findings of others, our stand is that publicly tracking children's behavior from a deficit orientation is ineffective, unethical, and indeed, harmful. In equal part,...
by Kendra | Feb 12, 2026 | Blog
When emotions rise and behavior escalates, the pressure on educators is immediate. Voices get louder. Tension fills the room. And adults feel an urgent need to do something, often quickly, and often forcefully. But escalation doesn’t call for control. It calls for...
by Kendra | Jan 25, 2026 | Blog
Needing a paraprofessional does not make a classroom more restrictive. What makes an environment restrictive is reduced access to general education content, curriculum, and peers. Yet across schools and districts, leaders still hear—and sometimes repeat—this...
by Kristie Pretti-Frontczack | Feb 24, 2024 | Behavior, Blog, Change, Pre-K, Social Emotional Learning
A teacher shared a story with us about how one time when using behavior charts, she was moving a student's clip from yellow to red, and the student said, “Good! Go ahead! Then I don’t have to listen to you for the rest of the day!” This is every teacher’s worst...
by Kendra | Jan 6, 2026 | Blog
For many school leaders, challenging behavior feels unpredictable—students go from calm to crisis in seconds, and staff are left reacting in the moment. The pressure to “handle it” is constant, and the solutions often focus on what to do after things go wrong. But...
