Hello to all who are reading, Welcome to my blog! After beginning my journey towards receiving my graduate degree in "Effective Teaching and Instructional Leadership" through Buena Vista University in August of 2015, I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. My courses end April 29th and I will graduate on May 27, 2017. I wanted to create a blog to share with you what I have learned through my courses and explain the research on how using classroom behavior charts with a focus group helped to improve classroom management strategies, in the area of behavior. In my study I observed students in my second grade classroom using a behavior clip chart system from September 2015-March 2016.The behavior clip chart is a chart hung on the wall that is about 4 feet tall. On the chart there are five colors. Each day students start on green which says "ready to learn". If good choices are made they could potentially be asked to move their clip up to blue which reads ...