Thank you for your cooperation in dropping other topics in favor of this work in creating EERP. I don’t want to mix a topic of such supreme importance like this with other topics. Without a strong response plan to the lead pipes some kids wield in our classrooms, we can’t teach anyway.
I plan to use the EERP poster/plan when I feel that someone has crossed the line with me, the class, or someone in the class. It is not something we can make a list of behaviors for. Moreover, it should not be used very often, except perhaps early on in the year when kids are testing us.
We need to know when we have been crossed on a gut level. We then pick our battles accordingly. We don’t make threats that we will use it. It is like a machine that is designed to swiftly remove kids from scenes and to assure that scenes where others are transgressed against never happen. We are stopping bullies here.
Many of us never learned to be aware of when we were crossed by others. Now is the time to learn to feel those moments, put the EERP machine into action, and, like David, never let them know that we have one iota of emotional involvement, emotional reaction, or anger in response to the offense.