There's No Magic Wand (But There is a Mary Poppins Bag): Solving Classroom Chaos

Sprinkle fairy dust where it matters - on your environment

I don’t have a magic wand.

Like most teachers, I wish that I did. I would wave my magic wand, sprinkle a little fairy dust, and all those challenging behaviors would just disappear.

But teaching doesn’t work like that. There is no easy fix.

The Magic Wand We All Wish For

When I visited Maryann’s classroom, I watched a group of boys wrestling in the block co…