Make Your Mark on International Dot Day!

…students and celebrating Dot Day. The best place to begin is to visit the official Dot Day Website. From there you can sign up to get their amazing free Educator’s…

Teaching Children Not to Be Rude!

…it is your job to help them grow to become the best that they can be. Let students know that rudeness is a damaging learned behavior, and you can and…

5 Ways to Make Your Students Smile

…a healthy snack each day. That joke might be a little over used today, but when I told it, it was unexpected and the kids got a good smile out…

3 Mindful Classroom Teaching Strategies

…our students. How can we possibly do that when we spend so much of our time on getting kids to focus and learn and less time teaching curriculum? I would…

15 Tips for Lining Up Your Class

…Young: Alpha by last name, alpha by first name, month of birth, table number (prime, composite, factors of x number, multiple of y number), rows, columns, how far they got…

What Every New Teacher Needs to Know

…reinforcing routines and procedures from day ONE! You may feel like you are wasting your time, but time spent early in the year will reap benefits later in the year….

What are Cooperative Learning Structures?

…Learning. It’s the best resource around for cooperative learning, and it clearly explains dozens of structures! Sample Structure: Numbered Heads Together Number students off from 1 to 4 within their…

Mathematical Problem Solving: Mindsets Matter

Day, the Easy Way, but after reading Mathematical Mindsets, I knew it was time to update that presentation with these new research-based practices. I asked Dr. Boaler for permission to…