The Kid Whisperer: How educators can *actually* be nice at school

Scott Ervin, Tribune News Service PART I of II Dear Kid Whisperer, I am the principal of a private, secular, K-8 school. Every year that I have been principal, the behaviors start out fine in the fall, and slowly deteriorate after that, no matter how hard we work at it. They are particularly bad in our middle school. Some of our programming involves having class meetings when students cause major problems and figuring out what the student should do to make amends. As the behaviors get worse and