Classroom Culture Champions
This strategy happens at the classroom door and sets expectations before students even enter.
What is Threshold?
This technique redirects student behavior using the smallest intervention necessary.
What is Least Invasive Intervention?
This strategy pushes students beyond a correct answer by asking for deeper thinking.
What is Stretch It?
This strategy involves calling on students regardless of whether their hands are raised.
What is Cold Call?
A teacher greets every student by name, checks uniforms, and reminds them of expectations as they enter
What is Threshold?
This strategy focuses on narrating what students are doing right instead of correcting what they're doing wrong.
What is Positive Framing?
This strategy requires teachers to constantly scan the room and communicate awareness of student actions.
What is Radar / Be Seen Looking?
This strategy avoids accepting "I don't know" as the end of student participation.
What is Reject Self-Report?
This teaching move increases the amount students talk, think, and explain during learning.
What is Ratio?
A teacher quietly walks near an off-task student without interrupting instruction.
What is Least Invasive Intervention?
This strategy establishes an engaging, organized opening that gets learning started immediately.
What is Strong Start?
This communication style prioritizes clear directions over lengthy explanations or negotiations.
What is Strong Voice?
A student correctly answers a question, and the teacher follows up with, "How do you know?"
What is Stretch It?
This strategy keeps every student mentally engaged because anyone may be called upon next.
What is Cold Call?
While teaching, a teacher makes eye contact with students across the room and adjusts instruction when attention drifts.
What is Radar / Be Seen Looking?
This strategy makes it obvious who is meeting expectations so peers can follow the example.
What is Make Compliance Visible?
This strategy combines consistency, composure, and tact when addressing student behavior.
What is Firm, Calm Finesse?
A student claims they understand the lesson. The teacher asks them to demonstrate their understanding instead.
What is Reject Self-Report?
This strategy shifts cognitive work from the teacher to the students
What is Ratio?
A teacher says, "Thank you to the three tables that already have notebooks open and pencils ready."
What is Positive Framing?
This strategy helps teachers maintain expectations through consequences that are predictable, respectful, and instructional.
What is the Art of Consequence?
This strategy emphasizes responding to behavior in a way that preserves dignity while maintaining accountability
What is the Art of Consequence?
This strategy ensures all students are accountable for rigorous thinking, not just volunteers.
What is Cold Call?
The goal of this strategy is for students to do more of the reading, writing, speaking, and thinking than the teacher.
What is Ratio?
A teacher calmly repeats a direction, pauses, and waits for compliance without raising their voice.
What is Strong Voice?