June 30, 2019

I know that we’ve decided to make classroom management the focus here this summer, and a good focus it is. To that end, I have so far published here nine introductory articles, over the past few weeks. Each article represents the progressive, day-by-day development of what will become an eventual actual book on classroom management.

It seems rather obvious, but we must speak slowly if we want to build communities in our classroom. How can we build community when our students don’t understand us because we are speaking too quickly? The numbers below are from an article in the The Wichita Eagle from 2008. Studies give slightly varying rates, but the conclusion