As higher education professionals, we have conversations with friends and colleagues about our students.  We’ve all done it.  The conversations can include how engaged students are with course material, how interesting classes can be when students participate, or maybe we’ve passed along a particularly funny exchange with students.  We love what we do, and we want to share that joy.  But then there are the other experiences, experiences we don’t readily share because we don’t quite know how to handle them.  Or, we don’t share them because we don’t want our colleagues and friends to know that we can’t handle the situations. That’s what ProfHacker’s “Disruptive Student Behavior” is all about:  it gives us a space to discuss—calmly, respectfully, and sometimes anonymously—how to handle difficult situations with students.

This series has a few caveats:

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