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Integrating Technology in the Classroom With Digital Research Projects

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Love seeing your students engaged and excited about their learning? This post is for you! The benefits of integrating technology in the classroom go far beyond just teaching 21st century skills. For elementary students, technology integration can boost learning outcomes and student behavior while incorporating digital literacy skills and cross-curricular connections. Digital Research Projects offer […]

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How to Rock Your Teacher Interview

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Teacher interviews can be stressful! There are often multiple people on the other side of the table and you never know what questions might pop up. But with some easy planning, you can rock your next interview and snag your dream job! I’ve served on too many teacher interview committees and I am here to

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End of Year Behavior Issues Solved

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Student behavior troubles notoriously skyrocket at the end of the school year, but it doesn’t have to be that way! I’ll tell you how to avoid the end of year chaos (with five simple changes) and how to set yourself up for an awesome next year! 1. You Are the Set Point At the end

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How to Prepare Students for Standardized Testing: 3 Keys to Success

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Just talking about standardized testing can make some teachers (and students) feel ill, but these dreaded tests don’t have to be so painful! You can help students prepare in fun and meaningful ways that build lifelong learning habits and make students feel confident and ready. Learn how to prepare students for standardized testing success without all

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No More Messy Student Desks

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Messy student desks lead to wasted time, lost work, and student frustration. It’s important for children to learn how to manage and organize their materials, as well as be responsible for keeping them that way. Enjoy a classroom full of organized desks and organized students today! 1. Simplify Your System Color-coded folders and notebooks for

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Why Your Attention-Getter Isn’t Working

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Teachers are so creative with their attention-getters. We’ve got call-backs and signals, jokes and chants, all kinds of fun ways to get our students to stop what they’re doing and listen! But, if your attention-getter isn’t quite cutting it these days, I’m sharing three potential issues and how to fix them up fast! Problem #1:

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5 Quick Tricks for Getting Students to Follow Directions

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They just don’t follow directions! I hear this all the time from teachers and I’ve said it myself on many occasions. Children struggle to follow simple directions, even moments after they’ve been given. But I’ve got 5 fool-proof tricks that will end all this frustration and get your class back on track! 1. When I

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I Ditched My Clip Chart, and Here’s What Happened

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The Clip Chart is a behavior management phenomenon that swept through classrooms across the country and eventually made it’s way IN, and very quickly OUT, of mine. I’d just had a particularly challenging year, and I was ready to try anything, so when a teammate suggested we try Behavior Clip Charts, I was all in.

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5 Alternatives to the Clip Chart

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After using a Behavior Clip Chart for one semester, I quickly learned that color systems and clip charts are NOT for me. I also don’t think they’re good for children or effective in improving behavior. In my post, I Ditched My Clip Chart, and Here’s What Happened, I shared my experience with that so-called behavior

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Quick Classroom Management Strategies for Preventing Problems

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So many classroom management strategies are designed to help teachers once the problem has already happened. But how about we start avoiding those problems in the first place! Here are 5 SUPER-POWERED strategies that can help you PREVENT management problems. 1. Cloze First Cloze Statements are simply phrases or statements where students are given part

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Tough Talks With Parents

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Teachers are stuck with the challenging task of telling parents things they don’t want to hear. Telling a parent that their child is struggling in school, making poor choices, or is otherwise not PERFECT, can be tough! But there’s good news! With some simple shifts in our language we can help parents understand our message

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Simplify Your Home-School System

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Are you having trouble getting the parent involvement and support that you’d like? Most teachers say YES, but so often, we overcomplicate things and make it HARD for parents to succeed. When teachers make it EASY for parents to be involved and informed, life is easier on the teacher, too! I’ve got two tips, plus

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