Help Students Manage Their Anger with a Mad Pass

Helping students self-regulate their behavior is often a challenge at all levels of school. One former graduate student of mine was a middle school teacher in an urban school district. She created something called a Mad Pass to help students with dealing with anger in the classroom. This Mad Pass had several easy-to-us components to make it work: Anger Ladder This teacher created a poster sharing the levels of anger that we all face: 0 = calm 1 = annoyance 2 = anger 3 = rage As students come into class each day, students would use this poster to communicate to their teacher where they were "at." For example, 0 means calm, while 2 would mean angry. The Mad Pass If her students being feeling angry (2) or higher, students were encouraged to grab the Mad Pass and exit the classroom to get a drink. If this becomes an issue in your classroom, you could even have a "chill zone" with items to calm the student down. Accountability Just takin