Linda Maxwell's presentation focused on the need for established routines and procedures, and on the need for explicit practice of those procedures. The majority of her presentation offered specific routines to be used in the classroom and ways to practice those routines. While useful, they seemed aimed at lower grade levels.
Her district's management plan, "Love and Logic" seems kind of elementary. To be honest, I think it's a little disrespectful to the students. The steps she outlines for "Love and Logic" include "going braindead" and "becoming a broken record." Students want you to actually listen to them, and when you simply repeat a phrase over and over again, it becomes wildly apparent that you don't care what they are saying. You, the teacher simply doesn't want to hear it. I don't think these strategies successfully neutralize student arguing. I think they reinforce the student's already persistent idea that teachers don't want to hear what they have to say.
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