About us
Our MIssion
Our mission is to empower teachers and school staff to strategically and successfully manage classrooms and student behaviors. We recognize the common feeling of powerlessness in effecting real and lasting behavior change within the education system. However, we believe that by making consistent and strategic choices, it is possible to create the desired classroom and school environment. Therefore, we are committed to teaching essential student management principles, strategies, and implementation steps that prevent, reduce, and stop misbehaviors while fostering and maintaining positive and responsible behaviors.
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Our core beliefs
- Change is possible if you want it and work for it
- We believe every classroom and student can change. While the extent of change varies, knowing that improvement is attainable can make all the difference in your efforts to better manage students.
- Positive and proactive is the best approach
- We believe in the inefficacy of waiting for classroom issues to arise or solely focusing on negative student behavior. By embracing positivity and proactivity, we can prevent undesired behaviors and cultivate a respectful and productive class environment.
- Continuous and strategic engagement is essential
- We believe in continuously supporting educators, offering regular updates, and reinforcing strategies to help them develop skills, adapt to challenges, and enrich their students’ learning experiences.
- Practical management strategies yield powerful impact and desired results
- We believe that simple and effective management strategies are the cornerstone of our approach, ensuring impactful outcomes that align with our goals.
- Change your perspective, transform your management
- We believe that when educators adopt different perspectives on students, behaviors, and learning environments, they can refine their approaches to better serve student needs, leading to improved outcomes and effectiveness in leadership.
Meet Michele Holiday
The Behavior Strategist for Teachers
Hi I’m Michele Holiday, a Behavior Management Strategist and the founder of Feed Their Needs, LLC.
I provide practical strategies and implementation know-how for teachers and school staff who want to THRIVE not just survive in the area of behavior and classroom management.
As a former behavior specialist in the 6th largest school district in the country, I have worked with numerous educators, administrators, and support staff teams who desired functional and effective strategies and interventions for students who continuously displayed difficult and disruptive behaviors.
Throughout my 20-year career in education, 15 years specializing in behavior, I developed hundreds of behavior and classroom plans that have resulted in reduced referral rates, safer classroom and school environments and happier students and teachers!
I also created and conducted school-based and district professional development trainings to equip school staff with principles, methods and tools to succeed in managing their classrooms and the student behaviors they face throughout the school day.
My specialty is helping you manage student behaviors like a Classroom CEO, strategically and efficiently.
If that’s what you are looking for…YOU are in the right place!
my story
In my first 3 years of teaching, I struggled with classroom and behavior management. The majority of my students demonstrated behaviors that were disrespectful, disruptive, and destructive on a daily and weekly basis.
Although I majored in Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities in college, I quickly learned that knowing and then applying that knowledge was a huge challenge in a real-life classroom. With the stress and frustrations that were building from dealing with persistent student misbehaviors, I heavily considered quitting my teaching career and starting over to do something else.
My patience and teaching ability were tested hourly. I felt as if I had aged about 10 years and it was a STRUGGLE to just have 20 minutes of peace on any given school day. Oh, things got real!
After some major soul searching during a reflective summer, I decided that my love for teaching was stronger than the struggle I was facing.
I made the decision to learn everything I could about behavior and how to motivate behavior change in my students. Through further education, collaborations, mentoring, and research PLUS a whole lot of trial and error in my own classroom, I was able to build a toolbox of principles, systems, and strategies that totally transformed the environment in my classroom.
Word spread about my classroom transformation and my ability to reduce and stop behaviors in even our most challenging students. Soon, I was asked to take on other struggling students from different classrooms. I applied the same principles, systems, and strategies and yes, they worked!
That’s when my love for seeing behavior change in students began. Later I became a school-based Behavior Specialist, where I worked with students K-12, teachers, teacher assistants, and a safety team. Years later, I progressed to become a Program Specialist for Behavior for the school district, where I worked with 30-50 schools a year.
My experiences over the last 20 years have never been boring, a little crazy, and most importantly -INVALUABLE! It hasn’t always been easy to navigate the world of classroom and behavior management, but I wouldn’t change a thing because now BEHAVIOR IS MY JAM!