Checking for Understanding with Exit Tickets

…effective strategy to check for understanding is to provide each student with a paper exit ticket. When creating effective paper exit tickets, I consider the following to be 3 critical…

How to Cure the Classroom Library Blues

…their book up and I snap their picture with my phone… they bring it back, I delete the photo…I can easily check daily/weekly/monthly to see who never returned their book…

5 Math Games Every Classroom Needs to Play

…student crosses off numbers it can’t be and circles numbers it could. The person who guesses the right number, wins and gets to choose the next number. The best part…

Bucket Seats… Made Easy!

…super easy tutorial on how to make bucket seats from those cheap 5-gallon paint buckets that you can get from pretty much any home improvement store. I actually got mine…

Helping Children Cope with Tragedy

…had numerous catastrophic wildfires, Hurricane Sandy tore the east coast apart in October of 2012, and then there was that day… I remember that horrible day…December 14th, 2012…The Sandy Hook…

Managing Whole Group Instruction

…to start the day. They can’t write their names on their tickets until the end of the day. If they break a classroom rule, I take a ticket. If they…