Imagine this: You’re sitting in a faculty meeting, bored and tired. As your principal talks, gesturing at PowerPoint slides, your mind starts to wander. You furtively pull out your phone and check ...

My daughter started fifth grade this month with a wonderful new teacher and, to my delight, the absence of one of the most annoyingly ubiquitous "tools" in modern classrooms today: the behavior chart.

You’ve heard this common advice: If you want your child to do something, set up a reward system. Give her a sticker or a point every time she does it. If she gets a certain number of them, she can ...

This post is in response to What’s Wrong With Sticker Charts and Reward Systems? By Eileen Kennedy-Moore Ph.D. Last week, 9-year-old James came into my office beaming. It was the first time I had met ...