How We Teach This: Season Eight

Season 8 of How We Teach This has a wide range of guests and topics - Listen to inspiring ideas from members of the 2023 Kansas Teacher of the Year Team, school safety advice for classroom teachers with Dr. Jim Persinger, and much more.

Kendal Norberg

Member of the 2023 Kansas Teacher of the Year Team

4th Grade Teacher

Season 8, Episode 4 - October 11, 2023

Teacher Talk: De-escalating Situations: Changing the Negative Cycle

Kendal Norberg, 4th-grade teacher and member of the 2023 KS Teacher of the Year Team shares advice and strategies for creating tension reduction for students experiencing stages of crisis, from anxious, defensive, to exhibiting risk behaviors. Listen for an understanding of how to maintain professional detachment to treat students with respect and increase their learning by calming the agitated states that are easily escalated.

About Kendal Norberg:

Kendal Norberg teaches fourth grade at Broadmoor Elementary School in Louisburg, Kansas; Unified School District 416.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in education from Kansas State University. She also earned a masters degree in special education from Baker University in 2019.

Norberg has taught in Louisburg for the past fourteen years in different capacities. She has been a substitute teacher for the district grades pre-kindergarten through high school, a STEM teacher for third through fifth grade, third grade teacher, as well as her current position in fourth grade. Previous to teaching in Louisburg she taught in Missouri as a fifth-grade teacher for three years.


In addition to teaching in the classroom Norberg has trained teachers and paraprofessionals at the East Central Kansas Special Education Cooperation in Crisis Prevention for the last five years as a certified Crisis Prevention Instructor. She works with others in her building by serving as a member of the Behavior Improvement Team. She represents her colleagues as a member of the negotiations team with the Kansas National Education Association.

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