Posts belonging to Category The Responsive Classroom® approach
Posted by Chip on October 24, 2011
The October issue of Kappan has a terrific article by Ross Greene about his approach called “Collaborative Problem Solving” with students in ways that help them participate in the solution to problems of their own making or to strategize about tough situations they may find themselves in at school.
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Categories: Managing Behavior, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: Babs Freeman-Loftis, Caltha Crowe, challenging behaviors, collaborative problem solving, discipline, Ross Greene, Ruth Sidney Charney | 
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Posted by Chip on August 26, 2011
I’m pleased to announce that registration is now open for a new one-day child development workshop offered by Northeast Foundation for Children (developers of the Responsive Classroom® approach). It’s called Child Development Matters, and I’ll be presenting the first session on November 1st on the UMASS Boston Campus.
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Categories: Teachers & Teaching, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: child development, child development workshop, Northeast Foundation for Children, Responsive Classroom approach | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on June 6, 2011
Two more great pieces of writing appeared recently in Education Week. One is Joan F. Goodman’s Commentary (May 25th) “When Students Are Silenced.” The other is Alisha Coleman-Kiner’s online Commentary (May 26th) “Leading with Love at Booker T. Washington.”
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Categories: Education Reform, Teachers & Teaching, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: Alisha Coleman-Kiner, Booker T. Washington High School, Developmental Designs, Education Reform, Joan F. Goodman, moral education, Obama commencement address, Responsive Classroom approach, student agency, Tools of the Mind | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on January 14, 2011
We come to the eve of our national holiday that honors the greatest American voice for nonviolence, justice, and reconciliation ever heard in our land. It has been forty-three years since his assassination at the age of thirty-nine.
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Categories: Building Relationships & Community, Education Reform, Teachers & Teaching, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: civil society, civility, Gabrielle giffords, Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolence, Responsive Classroom approach, Ruth Sidney Charney, Teaching Children to Care | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on August 31, 2010
At the beginning of the school year, in classrooms and schools across the country, students and teachers are asked to set goals for the year ahead. Students set learning goals with their teachers and teachers set teaching goals with their principals. Principals also set goals with their superintendents. All this goal setting is designed to [...]
Categories: Building Relationships & Community, Schoolwide Issues, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: Building Relationships & Community, Schoolwide Issues, setting goals, the adult community, the Responsive Classrom approach | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on August 2, 2010
Commenting on my last post on 21st Century Skills, Tracy wrote:
“Every time I read, hear, or think about 21st Century Skills I automatically connect to the Responsive Classroom® approach. The core skills of the approach are at the very heart of 21st Century Skills. Those of us already using RC do not think of 21st [...]
Categories: Building Relationships & Community, Education Reform, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: 21st century skills, Building Relationships & Community, Education Reform, learning communities, the Responsive Classroom approach | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on July 8, 2010
A number of studies in early childhood classrooms have documented that “self-regulation predicts academic performance in first grade, over and above cognitive skills and family background.” (Examples of these studies: Blair, 2002; Farran, 2010; McClelland, M. M.; Piccinin, A., & Stallings, M. C., 2010; Raver & Knitzer, 2002).
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Categories: Education Reform, Managing Behavior, Social & Emotional Learning, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: bullying, Developmental Designs, Developmental Studies Center, Managing Behavior, Open Circle, Responsive Classroom approach, social-emotional development, social-emotional learning, Tools of the Mind | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on May 11, 2010
Standing up with self-control is the final of the five key CARES skills underlying Responsive Classroom practice that help build positive proactive attributes in children both socially and academically. The other four are cooperation, assertion, responsibility and empathy.
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Tags: Building Relationships & Community, bullying, cooperation, Managing Behavior, peer pressure, Responsive Classroom approach, self-control, social skills, social-emotional learning | 1 Comment »
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