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Maintaining High Expectations: Why Believing in Every Student Matters

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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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Setting Expectations and Frontloading: Two Simple Strategies to Prevent Behavior Problems

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Why It Works A lot of classroom behavior problems happen simply because kids don’t know exactly what’s expected of them yet. Setting expectations means clearly stating, ahead of time, what a task or activity should look like — how to sit, how to work, what “done” looks like. Frontloading (sometimes called priming) takes this a

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