Episode 7: How to Teach Social Skills for Working Together
…like academic skills. In this episode, I share a 6-step process for teaching social skills that will help your students get along better with their classmates and learn to work…
…like academic skills. In this episode, I share a 6-step process for teaching social skills that will help your students get along better with their classmates and learn to work…
…my first project funded, and I felt like I had hit the jackpot when my materials arrived! I began sharing the news about DonorsChoose far and wide, both in person…
…scenario: it’s challenging to find meaningful icebreakers that don’t feel like a complete waste of time. That’s why you’ll love the Buddy Bio Poems partner poetry lesson! Having students write…
…decision. Videos are more time-consuming to make than thumbnail images and PDF previews, but I’m happy to create previews in all three formats if they’re helpful. If you’d like me…
…you’d like to use it with your students, you can download the PDF here. Free Heartfelt Causes and Effects Lesson Heartfelt Causes & Effects includes detailed, step-by-step directions, so I’ll…
…of class scrapbooks like the one shown above, and I love taking them out and remembering the students I taught many years ago. Each student wrote me a special letter…
…get school like work done as well? I visited Whatever DeeDee Wants to remind myself how her version of Chore Sticks works. After a little thought and planning, I jumped…
…I could have imagined! My students absolutely HATED to have to stop talking for one single minute! That minute seemed like an hour to them as they listened to everyone…
…teacher and reading specialist to write books for Issy to illustrate. This sounded like a great idea….and this is where the adventure began! First, Issy made a list of animal…
…the materials economy process and points out what is missing from the equation. She shares that while the process looks like a linear system, we live on a finite planet,…
…we had several of her books on our shelves. I wasn’t disappointed in her work; books like The Great Frog Race: And Other Poems and Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems were…
…what we imagine our classroom looking like when the hustle and bustle of the year gets under way and all of those once empty walls have been long since covered…