146. Why Your Routines Aren’t Working Yet

If you have taught a routine, practiced it, and still feel like it is just not sticking, there are a few things that could be happening. Routines in kindergarten take weeks and sometimes months to build, and understanding why they break down is the first step to actually fixing them. This episode gets into the reasons routines fall apart and exactly what to do about it.

In this episode, I share:

why routines take so much longer to stick in kindergarten than in any other grade, and why that is completely normalhow not breaking a routine into small enough steps is one of the most common reasons kids struggle, and what to do insteadwhy consistency matters more than creativity when it comes to routines, and how changing things up too soon works against youhow to set kids up for success before they even attempt a routine, including simple reminders and student modeling that make a real differencewhy narrating what students are doing correctly as they practice is one of the most powerful tools for cementing a routinehow to know when a routine is not working because of how it was taught versus when the routine itself needs to changewhat to do when you have tried everything and a routine still is not clicking, including how to start over the right way

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