This resource page is designed to support K-8 educators in creating a positive, productive, and inclusive learning environment. Effective classroom management is the foundation of student success; use the categories below to find evidence-based strategies, routines, and intervention tools.
PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports): A multi-tiered framework for establishing the social culture and behavioral supports needed for all students to achieve social, emotional, and academic success.
Responsive Classroom: An evidence-based approach to teaching that focuses on the strong link between academic success and social-emotional learning (SEL).
Conscious Discipline: A trauma-informed social-emotional learning and classroom management program that focuses on self-regulation and the "School Family."
Love and Logic: Scholar Acadamey's approach to student and classroom behaviors
Visual Schedules and Cues: Resources for creating pictorial schedules and hand signals to help young learners navigate transitions and expectations without constant verbal reminders.
The First 30 Days: Guides on explicitly teaching "how to do school," from lining up to sitting on the carpet, using the "Interactive Modeling" technique.
Classroom Jobs and Leadership: Systems for delegating classroom responsibilities to students to foster a sense of ownership and community contribution.
Logical Consequences: Strategies for moving away from punitive "clip charts" toward consequences that are related, respectful, and reasonable.
Collaborative Rule-Making: Frameworks for involving middle schoolers in the creation of classroom norms to increase buy-in and mutual respect.
Executive Functioning Supports: Tools to help adolescents manage long-term projects, organization, and time management as they transition to more independent work.
The Harry Wong "First Days of School" Principles: Timeless strategies for script-writing your procedures for everything from sharpening pencils to entering the room.
Transition Strategies: Techniques like "Chime and Shine" or "Call and Response" to minimize lost instructional time during movement.
Total Participation Techniques (TPT): Activities like "Think-Pair-Share," "Whiteboard Responses," and "Numbered Heads Together" to ensure 100 percent student engagement.
Gamification Elements: Using tools like ClassDojo or Classcraft to turn positive behavior and academic progress into a collaborative game.
2x10 Strategy: A simple intervention where a teacher spends 2 minutes a day for 10 days talking to a challenging student about their interests.
Morning Meetings / Advisory Circles: Structured templates for starting the day with a greeting, sharing, and a group activity to build social bonds.
Positive Phone Calls Home: Templates and schedules for ensuring that the first contact with every family is a positive one.
Classroom Management Self-Assessment: A checklist for teachers to reflect on their own environment, including physical layout, clarity of expectations, and ratio of positive to negative interactions.
For additional support with setting up your classroom environment, conducting a "behavior audit," or modeling a restorative circle, please contact your Instructional Coach.