🥳 Email Update: Resetting Routines & Expectations (Without Starting From Scratch)

Hello Reader! January is a natural moment to take a second look at classroom routines and expectations, but not because they’re “wrong.” Often, they’re just unclear. By this point in the year, routines have usually drifted. Steps get added. Language shifts. Expectations live more in our heads than in shared understanding with students. What once felt smooth now requires constant reminders. That’s not a classroom management problem, it’s a clarity problem. When educators tell me they need...