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DO YOU NEED VIBRANT MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH WORD CHOICE?
Teaching students how to use Word Choice in their writing can be difficult. Often times they use simple words in their writing. Guide students to use more vibrant words by... Read More
How to Help Students With SMART Goals
Do you know what fraction of people keep their New Year’s resolutions? According to various studies, it’s less than 8% of people! Perhaps the goals are too rigid, or perhaps... Read More
Remarkable Principals Who Know How to Make a Difference
While I was writing a post about PRINCIPALS- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SCHOOL MORALE, I thought of an idea. I should do a survey on my social media... Read More
PRINCIPALS- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SCHOOL MORALE
Administrators, do you want your school rockin’? Take a moment to think about your school morale. Does it have a happy vibe? Kids make up the majority of your school,... Read More
How to Keep Students Engaged During the Holidays
Have you ever called on students and they look at you like a deer in headlights? It is getting more and more difficult to keep students on task. Then throw... Read More
5 Fun Ideas for a Virtual Holiday Party
Having a holiday party with your class might be looking a little challenging right now. Perhaps you’ve already exhausted a store of ideas as unexpected virtual learning has continued. If... Read More
What You NEED to Know About Student Learning (Part Three)
In the previous two parts of this series, we talked about getting to know your students as individuals and exploring their different learning styles. Today in What You NEED to... Read More
What You NEED to Know About Student Learning (Part Two)
Knowing your students is a large part of establishing how you can best teach them. In PART ONE of What You NEED to Know About Student Learning series, we discussed... Read More
What You NEED to Know About Student Learning
Although being a master of your subject area is crucial for effective teaching, knowing how your students learn is equally important. The belief that any student can be taught any... Read More
5 Tips to Make Teaching Easier with Google Classroom
Google Classroom is an awesome teaching tool that can help you deliver remote or in-person instruction effectively. The service is free, though there are various paid tiers and extras that... Read More
Getting Started with Google Classroom: The Teacher Basics
Are you nervous about the direction digital or remote learning is going? Perhaps it’s because you don’t feel that confident about using a new digital platform, such as the wildly... Read More
Six Ways to Use Close Reading in Your Classroom
In this fast-paced age, it’s hard for students to take time to do anything. Reading material closely is often far down on the list of student-preferred activities. When modern technology... Read More
The Best Way to Teach Greek and Latin Roots and Affixes
Greek and Latin roots and affixes are the “building blocks” of the English language. Incorporating them into your instruction or curriculum not only provides students with word meanings, but helps... Read More
Revising and Editing: What is the Difference?
Revise or Edit? Potayto, Potahto? “You like potayto, I like potahto; you like tomayto, I like tomahto; potayto, potahto, tomayto, tomahto, let’s call the whole thing off!” Well, we can’t... Read More
How To Teach Writing Remotely
Some teachers find writing a difficult subject to teach. Now throw digital learning into the mix. Don’t panic! You don’t have to be at your wit’s end! This post will... Read More
Email Etiquette for Elementary Students
You’ve Got E-Mail! Now that school has moved online for the foreseeable future, it is important to teach students how to craft appropriate and effective e-mails. Unlike ‘snail mail’ letters,... Read More
How to Boost Student Morale
Students today are experiencing higher rates of anxiety and stress than any other generation. There is more emphasis on high-stakes testing, less time to relax, and there are more tasks... Read More
Black Lives Matter: Ways to Educate Yourself and Your Students
I’m not going to lie. I am no expert. There are many people out there who have a world of knowledge on how to support the Black Lives Matter movement.... Read More
Top 10 Things Teachers Need to Know for Distance Learning
This blog post is more than suggestions for how to teach long-distance, which is fast becoming everyone’s forte! It’s about things every teacher needs to know before, during, and after... Read More
Writing Mini-Lesson Videos for Students
Have you ever had the feeling that you just don’t want to teach a writing lesson? Maybe you lack the confidence in teaching writing or you just can’t muster up... Read More