Engaging the Brat: Rethinking Classroom Management

1-3 Units

Course Description

Credit Validation for The Ed Factory Participants Only

This live, online seminar is taught across two weekends and invites educators working inside and outside of schools to reconsider traditional approaches to classroom management. Rather than focusing on compliance, quiet, speed, order, and self-discipline, participants will explore teaching practices rooted in relationship, attention, listening, imagination, and the dignity of every learner.

This project-based learning course guides participants in building a final archive through observation, listening, audioethnographic practice, reflective writing, and collaborative narrative inquiry. Participants will examine how classrooms are shaped by space, sound, time, language, power, memory, and the assumptions adults may carry about young people.

Instead of asking how to keep a classroom under control, this course asks what children need in order to be seen more fully, what conditions make social connection possible, and what teachers may notice when they slow down before correction, discipline, or judgment. Participants will develop practical and ethical approaches for building classrooms where children are invited into fuller participation, care, and responsibility.

Guest speakers include Idris Goodwin, author of the YA novel King of the Neuro Verse, and Michael J. Carley, neurodiversity specialist.

Course Details

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IMPORTANT: YOU MUST ENROLL WITH THE PARTNERED ORGANIZATION AND PAY ALL REQUIRED FEES BEFORE PURCHASING UNITS THROUGH Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍŶÓ.

Number of Units: 1.0 - 3.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours.

Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for The Ed Factory Participants.

Course Materials:

  • Text, by Idris Goodwin (Author) available at or your local bookstore
  • Text, by Naoki Higashida (Author), KA Yoshida (Translator), David Mitchell (Translator) available at or your local bookstore
  • Text, by Herbert R. Kohl (Author) available at or your local bookstore

All text formats permitted, e.g., eBook, paperback, or hardcopy. Additional texts required will be provided.

Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍÅ¶Ó – Graduate-Level Extension Credit Information

The Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍÅ¶Ó partners with this program to offer graduate-level extension credit(s) in semester hours through the Credit Validation Program. To earn units, participants must register for and successfully complete coursework through the external program provider.

Credits earned through Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍŶӒs Credit Validation Program are widely accepted by many school districts and universities across the United States for purposes such as license renewal, required professional development hours, short-term skill building, salary advancement, credentialing, and potential advanced degree pathways.

These units do not apply toward a master’s or higher degree program at the Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍŶÓ; however, they may be transferable to advanced degree programs (e.g., MA, EdD, PhD) at other institutions that accept external graduate-level credits.

Participants are responsible for confirming acceptance, transcript requirements, deadlines, and applicability of units with their employing district or intended institution prior to enrollment.

Directions to Enroll for Credit 

Step 1: Register with the Partner Organization (The ED Factory)
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  • International addresses: 3–4 weeks

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What You Will Learn

  • Examine how teaching practices rooted in relationship, attention, listening, imagination, and dignity can help educators understand young people as whole human beings rather than as problems to be managed
  • Design learning environments that attend to space, sound, time, language, memory, power, and social connection in ways that support students' participation, expression, and emotional safety
  • Cultivate learning conditions that respond to students' experiences, strengths, needs, languages, and ways of making meaning to promote fuller and more responsible participation in classroom life
  • Apply classroom management practices that balance invitation and structure through observation, care, reflection, and ethical response to support a positive classroom community
  • Analyze how adult assumptions, schooling histories, professional habits, and prior experiences with authority shape interpretations of student behavior, learning, resistance, and needs
  • Create a project-based narrative that reconsiders how children are described, judged, and remembered while practicing a more compassionate and humanizing account of childhood and school life

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