Classroom Management

My classroom management focuses on two philosophies, C.L.A.S.S. and Conscious Discipline. You can read more about both of these philosophies below.

Philosophy of C.L.A.S.S.

Burnett Creek has been a C.L.A.S.S (Connecting Learning Assures Successful Students) school since its opening in 1999. C.L.A.S.S. is based on three areas, climate, community, and curriculum. Each of these areas utilize brain research and best practices to create exceptional educational services to provide every student opportunities to services and materials to aid in preparation for their future.

Climate helps create a positive social and emotional learning space. The Life Goals and Lifelines are the foundation for climate. Creating a common language, school-wide with the Life Goals and Lifelines help students and teachers work together to understand each other. Creating procedures for students help them take ownership and responsibility of their behaviors and learning. Teachers work with students to develop a growth mindset; the power of YET is prevalent throughout the classrooms. Mindfulness is also a part of climate. Room design, calming techniques, and reducing clutter can alleviate and reduce stress and anxiety and help us all be more mindful. When we create a climate that includes these areas we all become more productive.

Community helps create a space where collaboration is encouraged, relationships are built, and problems are solved. By implementing activities that involve repitition, movement, connections, and patterns, students better develop deeper mastery and a higher order thinking of concepts.

Curriculum is delviered in meaningful ways to all students. Differentiated instruction, Multiple Intelligences, innovative strategies, adaptations, and modifications, are a daily part of classroom instruction. The use of morning messages, hallway greetings, study trips, technology, and daily agendas, help facilitate learning. All students benefit from the brain based strategies and activities that help students transfer learned material into their logn-term memory.

C.L.A.S.S. at Burnett Creek is supported by teachers, administrators, and parents. If you would like more information and research can be found at www.joyofclass.org.

Conscious Discipline

Evidence-based Social and Emotional Learning

The methodology of Conscious Discipline is based in scientific and developmental research. It is recognized by SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP).

Conscious Discipline creates a compassionate culture and facilitates an intentional shift in adult understanding of behavior via the Conscious Discipline Brain State Model. It then provides specific brain-friendly, researched-backed strategies for responding to each child's individual needs with wisdom. This highly effective approach is proven to increase self-regulation, sense of safety, connection, empathy and intrinsic motivation in both children and adults.

The Tippecanoe School Corporation is providing training for Conscious Discipline through workshops and coaching. If you are interested you can find out more about Conscious Discipline at consciousdiscipline.com/about/parents.