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Not All Classrooms Are Created Equal

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Insights as to why a certain instructional techniques may work, or not work, for every school or every classroom.
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Good Classroom Management Can Lead to a Great Year

For Teachers K - 12th
My top techniques for effective classroom management and a great year.
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Control the Classroom from Day One

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Avoid the beginning-of-the-year scramble by having a strategy for the first few days of school.
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Writing Classroom Agreements using Inspiration & Word to Go

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How can you foster a thoughtful learning community for your class? First, the class brainstorms a list of behaviors that will help make the classroom a great place to learn. Then learners group similar ideas together and come up with...
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Making Grading Manageable, Efficient, and Purposeful

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Maintain your workload through focused assignments, expressed objectives, and clear rubrics
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How to Create and Manage Student Portfolios

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Tips and ideas on how to establish and manage successful student portfolios.
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Encourage Success with Consistency

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Follow a daily classroom routine to use class time efficiently and help your kids find success!
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Part One: A Truly Inspirational Book List For Teachers

For Teachers 1st - 12th
This book is not short on inspiration or terrific, practical ideas and techniques you can implement in your classroom.
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Stress Less: Understanding How Your Mind and Body Respond to Anxiety

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What could be more relevant to teens and preteens than experiencing stress? Use an article from the New York Times website to practice valuable Common Core skills for informational text reading, and also get a discussion going in your...
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Give Me Five Poster (Good Listening Rules)

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Stop struggling to get the attention of your class members by establishing a concrete, manageable system from the get-go. Here is a poster that sets forth five specific rules for good listeners, from keeping your eyes on the speaker to...
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Student And Teacher Behaviors In Science Classrooms

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students work in cooperative learning groups and respond to cases involving ethical choices by students and teachers in science classrooms. They create and submit additional cases and questions for use throughout the school year.
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Waste Management

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the topic of waste management. They define key vocabulary words, take a pre-quiz, complete a questionnaire, evaluate their own waste reduction habits, and write a short summary.
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Classroom Procedures And Policies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of setting rules and procedures. The class learns how to engage in a discussion and talk about classroom chores. 
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Classroom Objects

For Students 1st - 2nd
A word and picture comprehension worksheet is here for your ESL learners. They analyze seven pictures that depict common classroom objects, and match the pictures to the words that describe them.
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Classroom Management Tips For A Great Year

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Classroom management lesson plans can give teachers and students the information they need to kick off the year right.
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Integrating Technology In Your Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can try these management tips and lessons to help you confidently integrate technology into your curriculum.
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Justice for All - Educating Youth for Social Responsibility: Grades K-5

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
In grades kindergarten through fifth grade, scholars take part in a social-emotional learning unit designed to boost social responsibility. Three hundred pages provide lessons and activities related to everyday classroom practices, the...
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Are You Listening?

For Teachers K - 5th
To underscore the importance of practicing good listening skills class members engage in a series of activities that model poor listening skills. In pairs and then as a whole group, class members enact different, more positive techniques...
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Working Together As a Team

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine the need for rules to keep order at home, in school, in communities, and in the country using trade books and teamwork activities. They work in cooperative groups to define a positive learning community by writing a...
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Do2Learn

Tone of Voice and Volume Control

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
What level of voice is most appropriate for the classroom? Develop volume control in your learners with ASD with an activity that lets them know when they are using appropriate and inappropriate voice level.
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The 1:1 Transition: Paving a Smooth Road for Students

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Teaching expectations, routines, and skills make the transition smoother for students and teachers alike.
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Personal Poetry: An Introduction to Narrative Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Here are some simple and easy to manage lesson ideas to introduce narrative poetry in your classroom.
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The Hunger Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Enjoy this exciting novel with your students, and bring the games to life in your classroom!
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Scholastic

Mindful Listening

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Teach your middle schoolers to use their ears to their highest potential! Pupils practice active listening skills and reflect on how careful listening might prove to be important in and out of the classroom.

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