This year I have been having a lot more classroom management issues than I had last year. I suspect that this is because of our new implementation of Carnegie, which asks students to work on tasks in groups which may or may not be group-worthy every day. It could also have to do with the actual combination of students in the classes. I guess I’ll have to wait until next year to see. In the mean time, my vice principal shared this article with me, and I have shared it with a colleague who has echoed my difficulties in managing his classroom which shares many of my problem students.