# Ilana Nankin

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Why Classroom Management Stops Working in Month Two

By the second month of a school year, most classrooms look nothing like they did in September. The agreements have loosened, the routines have slipped, and behaviors are surfacing that no teacher preparation program ever covered. Nearly every educator moves through it privately convinced they are t…

Repair and Gratitude: The Two Skills That Make Connection Possible

Somewhere in every school week there is a moment that never gets resolved. Two students stop speaking after recess. A comment from a colleague lands wrong and sits there for a month. Most of us were never taught what to do next, so we get past it as fast as possible.Avoiding conflict feels like kee…

Why Student Engagement Starts in the Nervous System

Most teachers can name the moment a lesson gets away from them. A student who will not take a seat. A conversation that will not stop. A head that has been down on a desk since second period. Nothing in a preparation program covered this. The default is to manage the behavior and get back to the c…

How to Win In Life (And Business) Without Being a Jerk | Best of Year 1 on DBAJ

A year ago, Healey Cypher started Don't Be a Jerk as a personal quest to prove that being a jerk isn't the way to get ahead. Twelve guests later, the evidence keeps pointing the same way: most people are fundamentally good, and the jerks just get more airtime. For the show's one-year anniversary, …

Why Students Need to Practice Disagreeing, and How to Make It Safe

Election season has a way of walking into the classroom uninvited. A student repeats something from the dinner table, a classmate's face falls, and the whole room turns to see what the adult will do next. For many educators, silence has started to feel like the only safe option. Dr. Ilana Nankin, …

You Don't Have to Lead Alone: What 11 Years of Co-Leadership Taught Us

Most educators lead alone. One adult in a classroom, one principal in a building, one name at the top of the chart. Every decision runs through you, every hard moment lands on you, and the unspoken expectation is that a good leader already has the answers. Dr. Ilana Nankin and Michael Fenchel co-f…

A New Kind of Master’s of Education to Transform Your Life and Teaching

What if your master's degree started with the change you want to make in your own classroom? Breathe for Change Founder and Co-CEO Dr. Ilana Nankin sits down with Dr. Kelli Sammis, a 30-year public school educator and former principal who has advised more Breathe for Change master's students than a…

Why You're Facing Challenging Elementary Student Behavior

Every early childhood and elementary classroom has the student who throws the pencil box, hides under the table, or says no before the directions are finished. Most educators answer the same way every time: redirect, consequence, repeat. Before long, the loop runs the room and the adult inside it r…

Teaching Chooses Us: From Burned Out Teacher to District Leader

Most educators who consider a master's degree hit the same wall. There is no time, no energy left at the end of the day, and little appetite for a program that pulls them further away from the students they became teachers to serve. Traditional graduate programs often ask teachers to set their own…

Teaching Gratitude: 8 Classroom Practices That Build Belonging

By November, the rhythm of the school year is set, and for many students it is not a hopeful one. They walk in carrying yesterday's mistake, the comment that stung, and a running list of reasons they are not good enough. Educators carry their own version of that list home every night. The instinct …