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Teacher encouraging a diverse group of students, including a student using an AAC device, during a lesson
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Maintaining High Expectations: Why Believing in Every Student Matters

Why It Works Teachers form impressions of students early — sometimes within the first few weeks of school — based on things like past grades, behavior, or even how a student communicates. The problem is these early impressions can become self-fulfilling. When a teacher expects less from a student, they tend to give that student

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Teacher offering a student two classroom activity choices, illustrating a strategy for preventing power struggles
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Offering Choices: A Simple Way to Prevent Power Struggles

One of the easiest tools for avoiding power struggles in the classroom is also one of the most overlooked: giving students a choice. Why It Works Most kids don’t fight because they refuse to do the work — they fight because they feel like they have no say in the matter. When a student is

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