Academic language is (and has been) making a big impact in elementary school classrooms. Academic language gives students the skills to communicate, engage, and participate more effectively in content areas across the curriculum. After learning about academic language through reading…
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Being the daughter of a teacher meant always having to stay after school to help your mom with #alltheschoolthings. Stapling papers, sorting class work, sharpening the pencils. The teacher-daughter job I remember the most vividly was tracing my mom’s master…
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Congratulations on getting your first teaching position! You’re probably sorting through so many emotions and feeling very anxious and excited about starting off your new career, and that’s totally normal! All veteran teachers look back at their first year and…
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Growth Mindset. The understanding that intelligence can be developed. It’s not worrying about how smart you are or how good you are at something, but instead it’s about how you can become smarter and better. Constantly a work in progress,…
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Every year in my teaching career I have always had the most wonderful classroom volunteers. This year was no different! I was racking my brain trying to find a thoughtful and use gift for my volunteers. I have done the…
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Awhile back I posted about using the wonderful website, Student Treasures, to publish your students’ writing. It’s a great resource that’s FREE for teachers and FUN for students. Since I am back in the classroom this year, I decided it…
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I have a great project that will be a great closer of the end of the year, or a fun opener for back to school! It’s super easy and incorporates some fun math! First, take a picture of each student. …
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If you’re looking for a fun, engaging, and standards-related art and writing project – then I’ve got you covered! I am always trying to find ways to get my upper elementary students engaged in writing. One way I did that…
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Have you ever planned the most perfect lesson? A lesson that you thought would excite your kiddos and keep them engaged? Only to realize when you actually teach the lesson, your students aren’t really reacting the way you had hoped? …
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I loved using Mystery Readers in my classroom because it helped build positive parent and teacher relationships and it really got my students interested in reading. This idea can work in any grade level. It’s simple. You enlist the help…
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