Teacher’s Top Challenge: Managing Disruptive Students
For teachers, managing disruptive students is the most significant challenge to classroom management. These students can make you question your approach, test your patience, and even jeopardize your career. But...
Reaching Unmotivated Students
Often educators tell us that the biggest challenge that they face in their profession is with kids who are capable but won’t do their work. We have learned that there...
How Chores Build Responsibility: The Love and Logic Approach for Parents and Teachers
Why Chores Matter in Love and Logic Parenting Chores are very important for parents who use Love and Logic principles to teach kids how to make responsible decisions. Whenever we...
Fostering Empathy and Respect: Key Values for a Love and Logic Classroom
In today’s education landscape, it can be easy to focus solely on academic performance and standardized testing. But some of the most vital lessons in a student’s life don’t come...
Love and Logic Strategies for Teachers
Many of the calls that we receive are from teachers and school administrators. Some are seeking answers and resources to help them with the increasing challenges of classroom management. Others...
Teaching With Love and Logic: Classroom Management versus Classroom Leadership
The first edition of Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom, by Jim Fay and David Funk, was published in 1995. Although the challenges that teachers face...
Thank You Teachers!
Early in his career, my father, Jim Fay, was a schoolteacher and principal, and the roots of Love and Logic stem from his efforts as a principal to help teachers...
Instilling the Love of Learning with Love and Logic
This past week we received an email from a teacher who had this quote in her signature line: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of...
The One-Sentence Intervention
The past two years have been tumultuous for everyone, including teachers who now face more disruptive and unmotivated students than usual. Even two decades ago, research suggested that many classroom...
