By Karen Salsbury, M.S.Ed/Reading 5 Steps You Can Take to Turn the Negative Into Positive in Your Classroom                 “Please stop talking.  Eyes up here so you can understand the lesson for today.”  Do you find yourself repeating this many times throughout the course of your mini-lesson?  One of the students comes off with a class-clown comment and many students jump in and respond and before you know if, you’ve lost many of the students.  It’s maddening and disheartening!  But what Read More...