Most classroom rules only work when you're watching. The moment your attention shifts, so does student behavior. This episode reframes classroom management as a design problem, not a behavior problem. Instead of relying on enforcement, what if the environment itself made the right behavior the easiest one to choose? A simple shift in how you structure key moments in your classroom can change what students default to, without constant oversight.

This episode draws in part on research in:

• Habit formation and context-dependent automatic behavior (Wood & Neal, 2007)
• Context cues as primary drivers of repeated behavior (Neal, Wood, Labrecque & Lally, 2012)
• Classroom physical environment and its impact on learning — HEAD Project (Barrett, Zhang, Davies & Barrett, 2015)
• Self-regulated learning and environmental structuring (Zimmerman, 2002)