Hello teacher friends! I'm still waiting for the classroom fairy to come bail me out (hence why I haven't linked up for Classroom Digs or Organizing for Instruction)! BUT I did want to take a moment to talk about classroom management. One thing you won't see in my classroom is a behavior chart. I'm imagining your ominous silence... But bear with me! I've got some really good reasons. I'm also going to preface this post and say that I have a pretty small class. If you've got a big class, I hear you and I understand. I've had 34 kids packed in a classroom too. But I want you to read on anyway! It all started when I graduated college and had no management skills except the behavior chart. Unsurprisingly, I wasn't all that good with classroom management. As a sub I picked up a lot of great tricks to get kids to behave for a day, but I still didn't know about establishing a community or how to positively reinforce kids without a