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Teacher: Last call for questions? Otherwise, we’re going to get
started on today’s warm-up.

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Nora: [pushes over chair] You’re so annoying! I hate this class!

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Teacher: [To another student] Take this to Ms. Chen, please.

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Teacher: [To class] Class, let’s line up at the door and go next
door to Ms. Chen’s just like we practiced.

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[ Begin Johanna Staubitz commentary ]

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To his great credit, Mr. Santini notices relatively quickly that
Nora’s behavior has reached peak or crisis level. And we know that

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because she has now become disruptive to property and aggressive
toward property. And so a teacher’s first priority at this point

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is to keep everybody safe. So what Mr. Santini does is you can see
him here handing off a crisis card that communicates to a nearby

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teacher that they will be absorbing his class for a while, while
the situation is brought under control. So a student takes this

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to another teacher and then the class files out and you’ll notice
that they filed out in an orderly manner, and which suggests they’ve

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practiced this before. So a really important part of any classroom
management plan is to teach and have students practice—and I consider

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that part of teaching—what to do in a crisis or a safety or crisis
plan. It’s called different things in different places.

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So a safety or crisis plan, in teaching it, you know, Mr. Santini
didn’t need to say, “Oh, if Nora or, you know, Jordan, or some other

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student in the room gets dangerous this is what you’ll do.” There
are a lot of scenarios in which something like this can be helpful,

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including a fire drill, right? So we need to teach procedures for
students to exit the room safely, and so they do that. And, again,

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it’s important that stuff is taught in advance. After that happens,
you’ll see that or you saw that Mr. Santini gives Nora some space;

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he doesn’t approach her, he just waits. He’s still in the room,
even though the class has gone to another teacher’s room.

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But he doesn’t interact with Nora and what she does is kind of
her behavior peters out. She stops kicking and pushing things, and

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eventually sits down on the floor.