Category: Understanding ADHD
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It Is Never Just Behavior
There is a small word that does an enormous amount of damage in schools, and most of us say it without flinching. We say it in the hallway, in the team meeting, and in the note home.
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Clip Charts and ADHD: What Public Behavior Charts Are Actually Doing to Kids With ADHD
As classrooms get packed up for the year, there is one thing I would love to see taken down and stored in the trash… the clip chart. But not just the obvious red-yellow-green version. The ClassDojo, tokens, hole punches, points, or any other system that broadcasts a child’s behavioral performance. The format may change,…
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Kids With ADHD Don’t Need to Try Harder. The Adults in Charge of Them Do.
Telling kids with ADHD to try harder doesn’t work. Learn why context, not willpower, shapes ADHD in the classroom and what adults must do differently.
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The Most Important ADHD Support Might Be What Adults Learn Before Next School Year
New longitudinal research from Nature Mental Health shows the long-term challenge for kids with ADHD is not the ADHD itself, it is the environment around it. Here is what to do before the school year ends.