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Are You Sabotaging Your Classroom Management?
If you struggle with classroom management no matter how many different strategies you try, there’s a good chance you might be doing something to get in your own way. In this post I wrote for...
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The Danger of Teacher Nostalgia
“This is the worst group we’ve ever had.” When I hear a teacher say this, I know those students are in trouble: The person in charge of their well-being, the tone of their classroom, and their...
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Project Based Learning: Start Here
Despite the popularity of project based learning, a lot of teachers haven’t gotten around to trying it yet. You’ve been meaning to; you just haven’t had time to learn how. Or maybe you’re doing...
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Are We Meeting the Needs of Our Black Girls?
I want to tell you about Danielle. About halfway through my second year of teaching, the other teachers started talking about how Danielle Robinson was coming back. A seventh grade student,...
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A 4-Part System for Getting to Know Your Students
The biggest paradigm shift in my teaching career was the day I found out one of my students was homeless. Robert was talkative, academically average, fooled around a little too much. Some weeks he...
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What Advice Would You Give a Student Teacher?
This week, I got an email from someone who is just about to start student teaching. Feeling anxious about the semester ahead, she asked if I had any advice. I’m going to share my own thoughts here,...
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How to Write a Syllabus
A well-designed syllabus is an essential tool for effectively managing a course. It gives students a clear understanding of your expectations and a road map for how the course will be conducted....
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16 Ideas for Student Projects using Google Docs, Slides, and Forms
As you probably know, Google Drive is far more than a place to store files online. It also includes a suite of versatile creation tools, many of which perform the same functions as the ones we use...
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Classroom Management: 4 Keys to Starting the Year off Right
When I was a teacher, classroom management was not my strongest suit. I relied heavily on forming good relationships with my students, thereby preventing misbehavior. This worked about 90 percent of...
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The Compliments Project
The moment I saw this video, I knew I wanted to share it with you. And I didn’t just want to post it on Facebook; I wanted it to live right here on my site, so it would never get lost. It’s too...
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How Dialogue Journals Build Teacher-Student Relationships
How well do we know our students? They sit in our classrooms five days a week, we certainly spend lots of time with them, but how well do we really know them? How well do we know their thoughts,...
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Create Videos in Minutes with Mysimpleshow
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. Videos are becoming such important tools for teachers, but one thing that stops many of us from using videos is making them: With all the other...
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Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction
Listen to my interview with Tracy Enos or read the transcript here. In our never-ending quest to find better ways to differentiate and personalize instruction for students, we have plenty of...
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CommonLit: An Online Library of Free Texts
Listen to my interview with CommonLit founder Michelle Brown below. You can also read a full transcript HERE. We want our students to be able to read challenging texts. That’s a given. We want...
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How Pineapple Charts Revolutionize Professional Development
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. If you click these and make a purchase from Amazon, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thanks for your support. Professional...
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Is Your Classroom Academically Safe?
“Diving” by Khalid Mir is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Listen to this post as a podcast (sponsored by Kiddom): The scenario is all too familiar to me: One of my kids comes home with an assignment to...
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Graphic Novels in the Classroom: A Teacher Roundtable
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How to Approach Your Teaching Like a Master Chef
Listen to my interview with John Stevens and Matt Vaudrey, or read a full transcript here. If you’ve been looking for a boost of inspiration lately, something to help you engage students deeply...
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8 Great Educational Podcasts for Kids
As we seek to enhance instruction with technology, one tool we might not think of is podcasts. These can be used in flipped classrooms or blended learning models in the same way you might use...
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Is Your Lesson a Grecian Urn?
Listen to this post as a podcast (sponsored by Kiddom): An earlier version of this post was published in 2013. This is an updated version. A few years ago, I was working with a group of student...
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