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The Best Tips to Cultivate a Culture of Success in Your Classroom
Cultivating a culture of success does come with time and experience, but if you need some quick tips on how to start cultivating this culture,
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The power of learning is contagious. Our blog serves our teacher community by offering innovative ideas, activities, resources, and advice that gives you new ways to connect with your students and create a more impactful classroom.
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22 Engaging Distance Learning Resources
It is the phrase that we all dread “Your class has to go on quarantine for the next (insert number) days.” We have to prepare
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Teaching Tips for Your Students with Dyslexia
Students with Dyslexia are sometimes the most challenging students to figure out! They seem brilliant at specific tasks but then never master the alphabet. They
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Teaching Letters and Sounds: 27 Strategies that Work
If we want to help our students learn their letters and sounds, we must have multiple Strategies for Teaching Letters and Sounds. Alphabet recognition and
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Is a Minimalist Classroom For You?
I am a hoarder. Is anyone else able to relate? Plus, having a minimalist classroom was not ever on my wishlist. I do not like
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33 Teacher Ideas for Using Student Whiteboards
Do you have a set of student whiteboards for all of the kids in your class? I have tons of student whiteboards, but in all
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Let’s Talk Teacher Motivation!
The struggle is REAL, my friends! I went seeking some teacher motivation! Why? Life has changed in many classrooms since March 2020, and for many,
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Characteristics of Great Principals
I have been so lucky to work with good principals throughout my years as a teacher—great principals who supported me. And great principals who encouraged
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30 Best Books for Professional Development
Here is a moment of honesty for you: I hate when my administration sets up book study groups on ANY topic for professional development as
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Don’t Pitch Your Sight Words
Should I still teach sight words? Teachers everywhere question whether they should pitch their sight words activities and resources and instead focus on phonics, phonemic
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Things NOT to Say to Teachers in December
Teachers are so stretched thin right now! Exhaustion has hit! But, other people don’t understand our struggle. Unless you’re a teacher (or married to one),
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Phrases We ALL Hear in the Classroom
2021 will be a year for the books! Some days I think I should just put my voice on a recorder because I repeat the