Easy Differentiation with Colored Folders

…Sometimes, the thought of organizing lessons to meet the individual needs of all of your students can feel like an overwhelming challenge. One of the best and simplest ways I…

Math is More Than a Numbers Game

…tool for building math vocabulary. Mystery Number Detectives takes only a few minutes a day to play and requires very few materials, but while students are playing the game, they’re…

A “Smart” Way to Motivate Students

…at my TpT store! They include: SMART Board Build-an-Ice Cream File Ice Cream Party Tickets in English and Spanish And Ice Cream Clip Art for you to use whenever and…

Making the Social Studies and Literacy Connection

September 17th is Constitution Day, and it’s a great time to integrate social studies into your literacy lessons. I discovered two outstanding informational text books to read and discuss with…

Fun Games for Learning the 50 States

…How to Play Find the States Showdown: The first Leader selects a number card from the State Numbers deck and announces the number to the team. Everyone looks at the…

Cooking Up a Caring Classroom

…academic standards. Implementing Class Meetings How do we find time in an already packed day to teach social skills and foster caring classrooms? For me, regular class meetings were the…

Why I Stopped Criticizing Common Core Math

…that celebrities and comedians like to paint a picture of students using number parts and number lines as adults, (ahem–Stephen Colbert) and I laugh right along with them…because using those…

Multiple Intelligence Theory and Growth Mindset

Dr. Howard Gardner first proposed Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory over 40 years ago, suggesting that IQ is not one-dimensional, and that it can’t be described by a single number. Instead,…