Building EQ While Expanding IQ

…high fives inside my heart! I just love seeing my kiddos use such spiced up words!! I’m sure if I had students use a regular thesaurus, they would have just…

Book Donation Bonanza: Free PD Books for Schools!

The publishing world keeps changing, and sometimes those changes happen so fast we don’t see them coming. That’s exactly what happened to my publisher, and it’s why we’re donating thousands…

Poetry: A Common Core Dilemma

…poetry, so I set out to create a short teaching guide to go with it. Poetry: A Common Core Dilemma When I began to think of ways to use the…

3 Mindful Classroom Teaching Strategies

…like to share with you 3 teaching strategies that I use together that incorporate three popular programs. It can be used with kids from K-8 by adapting these strategies for…

Investigating Condensation and the Water Cycle

…subscribe and get the freebie all in one step! Click here to request your free copy now! Advance Preparation Before using the activity with your students, gather the materials described…

Save Time and Paper with Mini ABC Books!

…letter of the alphabet. In science, you might use this during a study of the the solar system. In social studies, it would work for community helpers or a historical…