Curing a Toxic Class Culture
Is student behavior driving you nuts this year? Are toxic classroom cultures preventing student learning? You're not alone! Many teachers are feeling frustrated with the lack of impact traditional management is having on these post-pandemic kids. I was having the same problem with one of my classes until I realized we all needed a true academic reset. During COVID, it took schools so long to adapt to the new online normal that many kids lost trust in the system and simply checked out. Then we brought them back and tried to teach and manage like we had before the pandemic, and for some kids, it just didn't work anymore. We all needed to reset not to the way it was before, but to the way it is now. For this reason, I dedicated two days to problem-solving and collaboration - not with my colleagues, but with my students. Present the Problem After looking at the unusually high amount of failing grades, missing assignments, and low assessment scores in one of my classes, I decided