Tag Archives: K through 12
Magic Woman: working miracles with damaged youth
Deb was a magic woman. I’d seen her work miracles with the worst of the worst – those students who tore teachers apart, who got their kicks from causing teacher trauma, who hurt people badly and laughed about it, the ones who didn’t care about others in any way, shape or form. They were heartless. …
Positive Emotional Balance: How to get it and how to lose it.
Part 1: Doing Magic with Dysfunctional Students I’m not much of an instant believer. I tend to listen, consider, then look for a demonstration of the principle in action. Using the buzzwords of the last decade, I look for someone who can walk the talk. So, when I first read Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of …
Prison Better then Home
How bad can it possibly be for our students today? Are the ones who present as argumentative, uncooperative, disruptive, aggressive and sometimes violent, evil people or is there something going on that dedicated, caring teachers are missing? Danny, Evan’s older and protective brother, was charged, convicted and transported to a Youth Detention facility (kids’ jail) …
With Troubled Youth: Seek First to Understand
We have no idea. As teachers, very few of us have any real understanding of the world in which our ‘worst’ students live. We know little of what motivates them, what they care about. We don’t know what they want from life. We don’t know the things that terrified them. We know not what they …
The Hugsman Hotline 