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  • Hugging Porcupines: Month-By-Month Strategies to Support Our Most Challenging Students by Mike Anderson book cover
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Hugging Porcupines: Month-By-Month Strategies to Support Our Most Challenging Students

by Mike Anderson

Support strategies across the school year

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Support strategies across the school year

Mike Anderson organizes classroom guidance around the calendar, giving the book a practical structure for teachers working with students who struggle academically or behaviorally. Its month-by-month approach addresses the changing work of a school year: establishing routines, reconnecting after breaks, supporting students who arrive mid-year, and preparing for transitions in spring. Alongside discipline, the chapters cover relationship-building, family connections, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving conferences. The emphasis is on understanding students’ difficulties and offering support that can help them succeed at school and beyond.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • K–12 teachers seeking strategies for students who struggle academically or behaviorally.
  • Educators looking for school-year guidance on classroom routines, discipline, family connections, and student transitions.

Themes

Classroom managementStudent supportTeacher-student relationshipsFamily engagementSocial and problem-solving skills

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Book overview

Insightful strategies for reaching and teaching our "porcupines"-those students who struggle in school and challenge us most.

 

We've all known students who disrupt class, break the rules, and try our patience. Deep down, we know they're the ones who actually need extra love and support instead of timeouts or trips to the principal's office. In Hugging Porcupines, veteran educator Mike Anderson offers practical strategies for supporting these porcupines so they can be as successful as possible, both in school and beyond.

 

Anderson walks readers month-by-month through the school year, sharing strategies for setting up routines at the start of school, getting back on track after holiday breaks, and finishing strong. He addresses how to

    • Develop relationships slowly early on, strengthen them throughout the year, and bring them to a positive conclusion in the spring.
    • Maintain, and even build, relationships through effective discipline.
    • Connect with porcupines' families.
    • Foster porcupines' interpersonal skills.
    • Facilitate effective problem-solving conferences.
    • Support new students when they arrive mid-year.
    • Support students' transition to the next year.

 

Hugging Porcupines will deepen K-12 teachers' understanding of why porcupines struggle academically and behaviorally in school and equip them to provide more appropriate support.

 

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