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You’re all excited about the new school year—you’ve got your school supplies, your new planner, and class schedule. You are ready. But then. . .you remember some behavior issues from last year, or worse yet, another teacher warns you about that student, who’s in your class this year. You know the one. He’s always off task, she’s…
Continue reading: The Secret Ingredients to Effective Classroom Management
Sometimes we worry that all the extra work we put into reaching ALL our levels in reading isn’t ever going to work. We can tell that what we are doing, how we are teaching, is just not working for these students. . .day in and day out, year after year. We may be teaching…
Continue reading: How to Reach ALL Your Levels Year After Year
You might have noticed that your classroom is quite diverse this year. You may have had students at varying reading levels, but you had many struggling readers either a grade level behind or multiple English Language Learners (ELL). I remember a few years ago, I struggled with a class full of so many levels in…
Continue reading: How to Motivate and Grow Your Struggling Readers
Teachers are a little bossy. Don’t take offense, dear friend. I’m bossy too. One of the perks of being a teacher is being in charge of our classroom. If you stop to think about it, we’re in charge of just about everything in our classroom from lesson planning, to design, to structure, and just about…
These weeks can feel like a whirlwind of activity for us teachers. Meetings, after-school events, and plenty other activities can blow us off course. However, when we rely upon solid, foundational tools—like academic feedback—we can weather any storm. Last week I introduced you to using student-to-student feedback after you’ve set clear expectations for your students….
Continue reading: The Power of Academic Feedback (Part Three)
