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Holiday Stress for Kids

Posted December 3, 2014 in Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.

Many of us have been brought up to believe the holidays are a wonderfully happy time of year. TV and radio stations play a variety of merry music and shows […]

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Normal Can Be Deceiving

Posted September 3, 2014 in Differentiated Instruction, Special Education, Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.
Tags: classroom, differentiated instruction, learning, learning disabilities, learning disability, lessons, school district, teacher, teaching

As an education specialist who has worked in the field of exceptionality for over two decades I have overheard one parent say to another, on more than one occasion, “well […]

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Better Ways to Handle Aggression

Posted July 11, 2014 in Classroom Management, Differentiated Instruction, Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.
Tags: Aggressive students, angry students, behavior issues, classroom behavior, difficult students, teaching tips

“The squeaky wheel always gets the oil!” is no more true than in the school setting. One of the squeakiest wheels is the child with anger and aggression issues. In […]

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Harassment in a Digital Age

Posted May 22, 2014 in Classroom Management, Student Behavior, Topics for Discussion by Mick Jackson.
Tags: bully, bullying, cyber bully, cyber bullying, harassment, new wave harassment, special education teachers

I remember back in elementary school when a couple of schoolmates kept getting dragged into the principal’s office for teasing a kid that lived just down the street from them. […]

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The Heroes Among Us

Posted April 29, 2014 in Special Education, Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.

As the story line usually goes, the superheroes among us generally blend in with our day-to-day lives.  It’s not until a catastrophic event that their strengths really become apparent to […]

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Don’t Lose a Student

Posted March 19, 2014 in Student Behavior, Teacher Tales by Mick Jackson.

If you’ve followed this blog at all you know that I spent several years working with socially and emotionally impaired adolescents and while I found this to be a very […]

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Good Idea?

Posted January 30, 2014 in Special Education, Student Behavior, Teacher Tales by Mick Jackson.

The majority of the students I worked with came from less than desirable family backgrounds and many lived at or below the poverty line, so being a compassionate educator I […]

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Classroom Respect, Behavior & Learning

Posted January 14, 2014 in Classroom Management, Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.

Stand on the playground during recess or in the hall during lunch and you’ll hear the usual conversations about boys, girls, sports, homework, teachers and student life in general, but […]

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The Kid is Running with the Wrong Crowd Part 2

Posted November 1, 2013 in Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.

For those of you who recall my last blog post I was talking about why kids can fall into the wrong social group and noted research that found that “the […]

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The Kid is Running with the Wrong Crowd

Posted October 25, 2013 in Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.

It seems that more and more parents are asking the question, “Why am I having so many problems with my teenage son or daughter? She won’t listen to me when […]

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