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raetherandom:

BIkers Against Child Abuse Helps Make Abused Children Feel Safe Again

“A biker’s power and intimidating image can even the playing field for a little kid who has been hurt. If the man who hurt this little girl calls or drives by, or even if she is just scared, another nightmare, the bikers will ride over and stand guard all night.

If she is afraid to go to school, they will take her and watch until she’s safely inside.

And if she has to testify against her abuser in court, they will go, too, walking with her to the witness stand and taking over the first row of seats.”

During one such testimony, a little boy sat on the stand, testifying against his abusive father, who sat less than 10 feet away.  

“Why didn’t you say anything before now?” Asked the prosecutor.

“I was scared.” The little boy replied, honestly.

“Why aren’t you scared now, what changed?” The prosecutor watched the little boy closely as he pointed to the front row of seats in the court room.

“Because my friends are scarier than he is.”

Food for thought…..Not all intimidating looking people are insensitive to innocent pain. 

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artofoverwhelm:

Bernard Pras.

So many colorful packages make one interesting visual piece. 

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So cozy.

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mixedupdays:

One of many “vocab” stations! I have this hung low on the wall so students can grab word cards for spelling purposes when they are writing, too. They *love* this station, to the point where the more popular word cards are getting a bit trashed.

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from-student-to-teacher:

I may just have fallen in love with this mathematics rhyme. This is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So cute!

let-me-bleed:

In my Sociology class, we had to write every hurtful word we’ve ever been called on a sticky note and then stick it to our body. We then went around and took them off of each other. Most of us in tears…this is the aftermath.

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girlwithalessonplan:

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student2teacher:

NOISE…removing one letter at a time when our voice level gets too loud. When NO is left, there is NO more talking!

Love this! A lot more clearer than just putting up strikes on the board or letting the noise escalate to a point where you just cut off talking. It also gives the kids a chance to regain control of their noise before it gets to that point. 

I really wish I had one consistent classroom instead of four different ones where I could easily establish something like this because I feel it could be quite valuable, particularly with my juniors as I have rowdy classes.

I’d much rather facilitate the students showing some initiative rather than having to take a more authoritarian approach to gaining a quiet classroom.

Can I just play Devil’s Advocate here? If I ever did this with a group of sophomores, much less juniors, they’d laugh in my face.

Does anyone else know of high school teachers who successfully use structured classroom discipline tools like this? I don’t mean structured rules, I mean tools like these.

I teach freshmen and juniors and the only trick I do is “If you can hear me clap [#]”. And even then it’s usually only used on my freshmen. My juniors quiet up with, “alrghty, folks!” After a bell.