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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Superheros, Superegos, and Student Discipline | Connected Principals

Superheros, Superegos, and Student Discipline | Connected Principals:


Superheros, Superegos, and Student Discipline

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How we treat our best students shows our aspirations; how we treat our most challenging students shows our values.  ~ Mendler and Curwin
This past Friday, an incident occurred at school that had me seeing red.  While supervising in the cafeteria during the lunch period, I was asked by our one of our cafeteria staff members to address a group of boys who had been leaving trash on their table, and arguing with one of our lunchroom monitors when asked to clean up