1.Wait until the students are out of the classroom. Stop. Do some personal reflecting. Work past your immediate frustrations and ask yourself the following questions:

• What is it that I want the students to learn?
• What is it that I want the students to know?
• What is it that I want the students to be able to do?

• What resources and techniques did I originally plan to use?
• Which ones are "working" and which ones are not "working"?

2.As soon as possible following the personal reflection, conduct with the students a Classroom Meeting.

Stay focused on the task at hand: analysis, critique, and brainstorming solutions for the completion or revision of the current teaching unit.

3. Don't worry yet about the "rest of the school year" and the "other things you have to teach." Solutions and positive possiblilities for those evernts will present themselves from an effectivlely run Classroom Meeting and from the efforts of students and teacher to follow-up the Meeting with implementation of the best proposals and "solutions"which were identified toward the end of the Classroom Meeting.

1. If the desired outcome is a teaching-learning process characterized by assumption of responsibility, cooperative learning, peer motivation, positive work-ethic, and a high degree of involvement, then the process of "solving problems" should be marked by the same characteristics. !!!

1. Focus, responsible self-expression, and willingness to complete a project one can be proud of are behaviors demanded and fostered by the classroom use of HyperStudio.