A complete Classroom Rules & Expectations Kit: ready-to-display rule posters, "looks like / sounds like" charts, editable first-week slides that actually model each expectation, and a student commitment pledge that makes it theirs. Set it up in week one, re-teach it after every break, and hold the whole year — without yelling.
Get the Classroom Rules & Expectations Kit → Instant digital download · Editable in Slides & PowerPoint · Color + ink-saver includedMost classroom-rules sets are a poster you hang and hope for. By October the chart is wallpaper, kids argue about what "be respectful" even means, and you're re-explaining the same expectation for the tenth time. The poster told them the word — it never showed them what the behavior looks like.
Expectations hold when you teach them the way you teach reading: name it, model what it looks like and sounds like, let students practice it, and have them commit to it in their own words. This kit gives you every piece to do exactly that in the first week — and a simple way to re-teach it after every break and behavior reset.
Five broad, positively-phrased expectations — We are safe · We are respectful · We are responsible · We are kind · We do our best — as full-color display posters with kid-friendly illustrations, plus blank editable versions to match your school's PBIS or rule language.
One chart per expectation so you model the observable behavior, not just the word — the piece that turns a vague rule into something students can actually do.
An editable PowerPoint + Google Slides sequence that teaches each expectation: show it, model it, practice it, reinforce it — so the posters become real week-one instruction, not just décor.
A whole-class "Our Classroom Promise" anchor chart students sign, plus an individual half-page pledge — so the expectations are student-owned, not teacher-imposed.
A short, warm explanation to send home or post, so families understand the expectations and reinforce them too.
A small teacher card with calm, consistent, smallest-intervention-first responses — so you handle the wobble the same way every time. Pairs with the Calm Corner.
Set your own rule wording, room number, teacher name, or translated text — every poster and slide text field is editable.
Bright full-color, plus an identical high-contrast B&W version for your printer budget and easy lamination.
Expectations hold best in a classroom that starts each day with connection. Morning Meeting Question Cards — available now — give you a warm, ready-to-run start to the day in the same warm Peak-Ed design. This kit also adds the missing expectations pillar to the First-Week Setup & Management System, alongside routines, intake, and your calm start.
See Morning Meeting Question Cards →"My rules used to be a poster nobody read. Now we teach each expectation, practice what it looks like, and the class signs the promise together — and in October they still hold me to it. That's the difference."— The teacher this was built for
Print it once, teach it in the first week, and re-teach it after every break — so your expectations hold from August to June, in your own words, in any classroom, K–5.
Get the Classroom Rules & Expectations Kit → Instant download · K–5 · Editable in Slides & PowerPoint · Color + ink-saver · posters, T-charts, teaching slides & pledge included