Last month, we wrote a blog post titled Bullying and Cyberbullying: 6 Things I Can Do, which focused on six things teachers and administrators can do when they witness one child being bullied by another. But what happens when a teachers is the bully? According to in the International Journal of Psychiatry, nearly 45% of teachers surveyed admitted to bullying a student, where bullying was defined as "using power to punish, manipulate, or disparage a student beyond what would be a reasonable disciplinary procedure. This WebMD article discusses the study, and provides parents with strategies for approaching a bully-teacher.

But what about other educators? What can educators do when they witness a colleague bullying a student?

The following tip is excerpted and adapted from Reducing the Risk, Increasing the Promise by Sherrel Bergmann and Judith Allen Brough. In this tip, you'll learn about the Decision-Making Process and the Student Decision-Making Log.

Starting at about fourth grade, students are faced with ever-increasing pressures to make decisions for themselves both in their daily lives and as they plan for their futures. They are bombarded with information, possibilities, family pressures, school expectations, and societal stressors.

Here's an image: class trip to Washington, DC without a tour guide! What if you, as the teacher, don't have the experience or expertise to offer insights into the many historical landmarks located there?  Perhaps you have some limited historical knowledge to offer, but you certainly cannot bring this history to life. An experienced tour guide would lead your students toward a greater understanding of the city and its significance. A tour guide would make all the difference!

In Math Intervention: Building Number Power with Formative Assessments, Differentiation, and Games (Grades PreK-2), Jennifer Taylor-Cox provides teachers with specific strategies and games that can be used to target math instruction for struggling students from preschool through grade 2.

In this tip, you will learn how to help your students understand fact families with the funny bunny game!

What are Addition and Subtraction Fact Families?

Fact families for addition and subtraction are facts that are directly related. In a fact family...

The following guest post was written by Barbara R. Blackburn, author of the best-seller Rigor is NOT a Four-Letter Word. Learn more about Barbara R. Blackburn here.

A Fifth Myth About Rigor - Resources Equal Rigor

Recently, I’ve heard a common refrain. “If we buy this program, or textbook, or technology, then we would be rigorous.” I’ve worked for two textbook companies and one instructional technology company, and I learned a critical lesson: it’s never the resources, it’s always how you use them..

In Teaching Critical Thinking: Using Seminars for 21st Century Thinking, Terry Roberts and Laura Billings show how a seminar approach can lead students deeper into a text and improve their speaking, listening, and writing skills, as recommended by the Common Core State Standards. However, in order for students to develop these skills, teachers must be able to craft meaningful questions that allow a purposeful discussion to occur. In this tip, you will learn how to create these meaningful questions to help guide your students toward a deeper understanding of the subject at hand.

In her book Communicate and Motivate: The School Leader’s Guide to Effective Communication, Shelly Arneson explains how school leaders can become successful communicator with teachers and parents by analyzing and planning conversations from the ground up. For parent-teacher conferences, Arneson suggests that school leaders hold separate pre-conferences with both parties to familiarize themselves with all sides of the issue and alleviate the fear of preexisting biases.

Welcome to Eye On Education Radio: Expert Voices on School Improvement!

This new series of podcasts, hosted by president and publisher Bob Sickles, features straightforward conversations with EOE's expert authors. Our authors discuss their books, experiences inside and outside the classroom, and provide candid commentary about the challenges facing today’s educators.

In our monthly E-News, we bring you the latest education news, resources, and classroom ideas from the Eye On Education Blog and other blogs we read. Click below for our favorite educational blog posts from the past month.

"Down" time consists of any time that a student has nothing to do. When does "down" time typically occur in the classroom? It usually occurs when students finish an assignment early, when the teacher finishes a lesson before the end of the class period, or during transitions from one subject to the next. That was the problem, and here is the solution: Simply put, the way to avoid "down" time is to structure every minute of the entire class period. In other words, when giving an assignment, provide structured activities for early finishers.

In Lead On!: Motivational Lessons for School Leaders, Pete Hall presents readers with easy to follow his practical tips and strategies for taking action, goal-setting, motivating others, gaining perspective, and so much more! This tip will show you how to successfully set a goal for your teachers, your school, or yourself!

A Goal-Setting Game Plan

Goals hold a prominent spot in the educational landscape, but how do we decide which goals to set?

Step-by-Step Professional Development in Technology by Sarah T. Meltzer provides easy-to-follow guidelines for bringing about effective professional development in technology from start to finish. She takes you step-by-step through the process of planning, implementing, and managing professional development opportunities. The book is also filled with handy, practical tools and resources, such as pre-planning worksheets, needs assessment surveys, long- and short-term technology plans, technology inventory forms, training schedules, and more. Here are six tips about implementation from her book.