I have been following Smart Classroom, watching videos, reading the books, and slowly integrating the practices into my high school classroom. This is a common sense approach that has changed my teaching dramatically. Such a blessing! Keep posting and sharing. Thank you. 😊

First year teacher in Norway here! Super thankful for your videoes! It makes me reflect on my own practise and i can always see an improvement with my 5th graders whey i try out something from your videos!😊 Keep sharing your advice please!

Good Morning! I am so happy I found your channel this summer. I truly appreciate your common sense approach to classroom management. I am a second year teacher and last year was my first year in second grade. I struggled all last year with challenging behaviors and student's lack of respect. I was the "nice" teacher with boundaries, but upon reflection, I was very inconsistent. I am looking forward to taking a whole new approach this year beginning on day one. Thank you and please keep posting!

I always watch your videos. They always point out the obvious that can be so hard to see day to day in the classroom.

So helpful! You are giving me so much confidence. I don’t know how I survived 13 years of teaching without this knowledge! Thank you!!!

Thank you for sharing. Your channel is what I have been looking for. You give language for the struggle and leave us with takeaways. Grateful!

I’d like to see a video where these are modeled in a real classroom.

Thanks, Michael! What a terrific video. I can see lots of themes explored in previous writings, especially the chapter on Voice in your book Inspire, and the chapter on talking less in your book, The 11 Habits of Happy Teachers. Always a pleasure to listen to you speak.

I am definitely going to try this. I am substituting for a teacher in the lowest grade at a special school,  and I need to forgive them first. Thank you for giving us good advice every time.

I’m definitely going to try these tools thank you for your videos they are so much inspirational and insightful

I feel pretty good about all of my routines and rules set up for my classroom, and my classroom management plan overall. The problem I have with my plan is having consequences for student actions. Generally, I give a verbal warning for misbehavior, then make a seating change (please sit at the back table, etc), and if a 3rd reminder is needed, a reflection sheet goes home. This sheet needs to be sent home, signed, and returned the following day. Student and parent work on making a better plan for next time.  After 2 reflection sheets, the 3rd turns into an office referral, which includes talking to the principal (and call home from principal). This used to work well, but in the past few years, parents have stopped signing and returning reflection sheets, students don’t care about getting a reflection sheet, and we are not allowed to use other consequences like stay in for lunch/recess. There just are no consequences to give that students care about, so it leaves us in a tough spot. Any ideas about that or what I might improve on? Thanks, I am a faithful watcher of your videos (and get your emails, as well).

thank you so much for your video's, they are very halpful for my difficult class teaching. 😀😇🙏

Thank you for this extremely solid advice.  I am a substitute teacher and I feel that these strategies will be effective for all classrooms I cover.  It is hard sometimes to go into different rooms when they all have separate routines and expectations however this will definitely help to set my delivery standard so they know what to expect from me.  It will be challenging at first to talk less 😅 but I am definitely looking forward to the end result.  Do you have any particular advice for substitute teachers?

I've spent my whole career looking for something that will really help me to improve my classroom management; these videos have been really influential for me. Thank you!!

I have seen positive results. The teacher becomes a student of classroom management.

These videos have nailed all my problems with classroom management. Knowing how to fix them all through these videos is life-changing! How I wish I had known all of this 18 years ago...