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CLASSROOM MANGEMENT

Classroom management is a priority in the classroom. With proper classroom management, your students can feel safe, secure, and grow into the successful students you know they are. Check out these blog posts for tips and ideas for everything you need to manage your classroom smoothly.

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Getting students to listen doesn't always have to be a challenge when you apply these ideas and a little consistency. Check out these ideas to get started!

Talking So Kids Listen

Speeding Up Classroom Transitions

Every year, teachers seem to be taken by surprise by some of their students' work habits. Sometimes, kids just really have never been taught work habits! I share several tips for correcting this problem, as well as a couple of freebies that you can download and start using right away, in this post.

Fix Those Students’ Work Habits!

Seeing Results with Homework

Homework can be a controversial subject. Those who are against it often state that it is not an effective instructional tool and can be detrimental

An Exciting New Way to Look at Brag Tags

Brag tags are exciting, engaging, and extremely motivating in the classroom. Students love them, and there’s no doubt based on the massive supply of them

Review the Rules and Procedures After Winter Break

For me, every year after enjoying a nice two weeks (or close to) off with my family, it’s always hard to get back up to

Meeting with the parent of a behavior child does not have to be scary with these tips and ideas! Check out this post with step-by-step help!

Meeting with a Parent of a Behavior Child

At some point in every teacher’s career, you will need to meet with a parent to discuss their child’s behavior. It can be a bit

I know you have students with short attention spans in your class, so how are you supporting them? Our students with ADD or ADHD need special support to help them succeed, so this post outlines five ways that you can help meet the needs of your students who have short attention spans.

5 Ideas to Help Students with Short Attention Spans

I don’t recall growing up hearing so much about children with ADD or ADHD. Perhaps it was around, but I just didn’t notice. I do

Some teachers absolutely love centers, while other teachers want nothing to do with them. Centers can be challenging to set up and maintain, but once you have them in motion, they can be used for any subject area. In this post I describe the type of management and modeling you need to facilitate, how to set them up for sustainability, and how to keep students accountable for the work. Click through to read this post and get all of the details!

Making Centers Work

Centers in your classroom. Are they good? Are they bad? Are they really worth your time and energy? If you choose to have them, then

Fix Those Students’ Work Habits!

Every year I have in my classroom at least one cutie pie that has some work habits that could make you pull your hair out!

The unfortunate truth is that teachers today are competing with electronics in order to get students' attention in the classroom. This is a tough obstacle to be up against! To try help my fellow teachers start their lessons out strong, I'm sharing 20 ways to catch their attention in this post.

Catch Their Attention From the Start

Holding students’ attention in the classroom now is more difficult than years ago. I blame electronics. No, really, I do. Kids are constantly holding electronic