Inside This Week’s Episode: — Meet Shawn Young, creator and CEO of Classcraft. Shawn shares how his passion for building positive relationships with students inspired him to create a behavior management tool that celebrates students’ success and focuses on positive interventions.

Links & Resources Mentioned in the Episode

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You haven’t experienced Behavior Management like this before…

But you’re about to.

Teachers know that success in the classroom begins with classroom management.

And classroom management starts with relationships.

Without building positive relationships with students, you’ll be swimming upstream all year long.

Shawn Young, CEO of Classcraft (a behavior management tool), knows this all too well. As a student himself, he often felt bored with school and didn’t feel a sense of belonging. When he became a teacher himself, he wanted to create a different experience for his students - one that was built on the foundation on positive relationships.

Out of his own need in the classroom, Shawn began building an online platform that focused on positive behavior interventions. And Classcraft was born.

Classcraft is an innovative platform that helps educators make learning meaningful and motivates students through gamification.

Not only did he see the impact it had on his own students, but others began to notice as well. And now - Shawn is on a mission to replicate this same positive experience in classrooms around the world.

Since launching Classcraft into the world of education, it has been a force to be reckoned with in transforming behavior and classroom cultures.

And - I had the privilege to have Shawn on the podcast to talk all about positive behavior intervention & supports, also known as PBIS - and how Classcraft supports PBIS programs.

In our conversation, We talk about:

• Common mistakes that schools make when it comes to classroom management and behavior management

• The importance of putting an emphasis on POSITIVE interventions and management

• How the pandemic effected how teachers need to address classroom and behavior management 

• How a PBIS program can be differentiated for individual student needs

• The impact gamification has on motivating positive behavior

• The first steps that teachers and schools at large can take when implementing a PBIS program

• How Classcraft supports a 21st century classroom

• The importance of getting everyone in the school on board with behavior management (classroom teachers, specials teachers, other school support staff) 

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