First-week routines that actually stuck after October
I am collecting routines that survive the honeymoon period. The most useful examples include what you taught explicitly, what you stopped doing, and what you changed once students started testing the edges.
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The routines that lasted at our school had a weekly reset ritual. Teachers spent three minutes every Monday naming the routine, modeling one example, and letting students practice once before content started.
The Monday reset is useful. I like that it avoids treating October drift as a discipline failure.
For younger students, I had better results when the entry routine ended with a visible choice: start the warmup alone or compare the first answer with a partner.