Walk into most elementary classrooms and you'll see them: sticker charts, behavior clip charts, treasure boxes, class economy systems, digital point trackers. We've built entire ecosystems around the idea that students need prizes to behave and rewards to learn. And look, I get it. Rewards work. In the short term, they absolutely work. Kids will jump through hoops for a piece of candy or five extra minutes of recess. But here's the problem: they're jumping through hoops. They

If you've ever looked at the clock and wondered where 15 minutes of your class period just disappeared, chances are it got swallowed by a transition. Moving from one activity to another shouldn't take that long. But in many classrooms, it does. Students wander. Materials get lost. The noise level creeps up. And before you know it, you've spent more time managing the transition than you did teaching the actual lesson. The frustrating part? Most teachers know their transitions