Cooking Up a Caring Classroom

…for specific topics. You’ll even find the ISBN number for each book to help you locate it! After you read each book to your class, check it off in the…

Awakened: Hope for the Year Ahead

number of personal growth books about the impact of positive thinking on one’s life, but I had never seen those concepts applied to the teaching practice. When the book arrived,…

Top 20 Tips for Landing a Teaching Job

…week, I choose a few to feature on Facebook each day, where you’re invited to chime in with your advice. When I see a post that receives a large number

Honoring 9/11 – A Delicate Balance

Numbers and Measurements The Man Who Walked Between the Towers includes many references to lengths, heights, and widths, so I created a set of task cards that display those quantities….

Host a Classroom Scrabble Tournament!

…letters for yourself and 7 letters for the class. Write the class letters in huge blocks on the board with the number values clearly shown. Play against the class play…

5 Ways to Help Students Become Word Collectors

…backpacks and noticed when people “cringed”. They loved it!   2. Model classroom discourse! Hearing and using rich language serves a number of purposes–from modeling sophisticated language to showing that…

3 Mindful Classroom Teaching Strategies

…prizes and points) based on research I had read during my student teaching. But just how do you do this when there are 24+ students who all come from different…

Family Science Night: Hands-on, Minds-on Fun!

…to present. What types of content for presentations would yield high interest? Determine the number of make-and take stations and the content for each station. Examples of make-and-take stations include…