There are, over the past ten years, 6,834 posts here and 51,625 comments on this PLC. This one is by far the single most important of all of them:
Sometimes things come into our daily routines that blow our minds. It happens so rarely. But on my PLC today Greg Schwab shared a link that encapsulates EVERY SINGLE DETAILED NUANCE of my approach to the topic of my next book – Classroom Management in the CI Classroom. My poster on the Classroom Rules and my jGR rubric and Tina’s new version of it as found in Appendix D of the Natural Approach to Stories book is completely, 100% expressed fully by this brilliant and brave man, Dr. Eric Thomas. I feel like weeping when I hear him talk, and I pray that we all, AS THE ADULTS IN OUR CLASSROOMS, might take away and implement in our work at least some small shred of the message that this man says right here:
Thank you Greg for sharing with us what I will say in my own experience is the single most important statement on classroom management I have ever heard. What Dr. Thomas says here should be recognized for what it is; the kernel of truth that we need to become effective CI teachers. We don’t have to adapt Dr. Thomas’ style, that depends on so many factors, but we should consider doing what he did IN THE MOMENT THAT HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS BEING DISRESPECTED.