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I have a tough class this year. In general, they are academically low, they have a very hard time paying attention, and they are down right mean to each other. We will only have Thursday and Friday of next week with kids. I was hoping to use those two days to really try to hit them hard with kindness. Has anyone done anything with their kiddos that has really gained results? We've read the How Full is Your Bucket book and watched a few animated shorts. We've had SO MANY DISCUSSIONS on the topic to no avail. I need to see progress. I made tallies one day of the number of mean incidents that were reported to me and there were 8 in the first 40 minutes of the day (morning work time). I had 28 reports by the end of the day. Any thoughts or ideas?! Thanks!