It’s back-to-school time! Share your number one practical tip as it relates to STUDENT organization for the start of school. Your tip can cover (in 100 words or fewer, please) getting kids organized or getting yourself organized to help your students. For example, at...
Step into any classroom for any age at any time of day, and teachers are likely to report that transitions between activities are when they lose the most instructional time with their students. Luckily, you can read a lot more about how to run effective transitions in...
This post is about one of my favorite classrooms, Jenny C.’s Kindergarten in Brooklyn. I’ve known Jenny for over five years. She’s featured in my book, and she’s the type of teacher I hope my own daughter has in a few years. Full disclosure: Jenny’s classroom has...
Working on our own Togetherness is one thing. Helping our students – the reason we all actually got into teaching – with their own is quite another. We receive many questions about student Togetherness. These can be toughies, and we’re excited to put together more...
Student organization is TOUGH. This topic comes up as a request in every single workshop we give. So, I was very, very happy when I found this video from Harriet Tubman Charter School in New Orleans. It’s so awesome, you’ll want to watch it again…and again…and again....
It was not until I attempted to organize my own field trips that I realized just how much darn work field trips are to plan, execute and follow up on for teachers. After one particularly harrowing evening trip to an art exhibit with my students, I called my high...
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