Get Ready For School: Download Gamified Classroom Management System!

Student Success Game
Above is a printout of the student success classroom management system.

Over the past few years, I've developed a gamified classroom management system to help students reflect on and manage their behavior. I first published the game in 2013, and I've finally updated it this week.

I've used the game with 6th, 7th, and 8th graders — most recently with some tough 6th grade classes.

The new version of the game includes an Excel worksheet that teachers can use to track class student improvement points, class points, and class averages. Over time, this worksheet can help teachers see when students are making improvements, flying high consistently, or taking a nose dive at a certain point in time. The best part is: It's all generated by the students themselves, so the student (or their parents) can't argue about it.

This information can be used to start conversations about behavior issues with students, parents, and administrators, and enable teachers to work with students to develop a behavior plan that will encourage the student to be reflective and develop self-control.

You can read more about the game, or purchase it from my TpT store.

About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle Boyd Waters is the founder of reThink ELA, where she creates research-informed resources that help middle and high school English teachers build stronger communities of readers and writers. After teaching secondary English for 10 years, Michelle has continued working alongside educators and students as a university composition instructor, writing center director, teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project, and mentor to new teachers. Her work brings together classroom experience, literacy research, and writing center pedagogy to create practical resources that support authentic reading, meaningful writing, and student voice. Through reThink ELA, she helps teachers create classrooms where both students and educators can thrive.

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