Positive Teacher is a short, plain-spoken blog about teaching grades 6–12: responsibility, consequences, expectations, families and the everyday systems that make a classroom run. Every research claim links to its source, and the limits of each study are stated in the post.
Clay Shumate is a certified secondary Social Studies teacher in the public schools of West Alabama, with seven years of classroom experience, a B.A. in History, and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education. He writes about project-based learning, student responsibility, respect, and practical ways to hold young people to a higher standard while giving them room to learn from mistakes.
His main site, Elevate the Norm, publishes free templates and longer guides for secondary teachers.