Category: Routines & Systems

Are you changing grade levels? Here are five tips to help you get started to make your school year a smooth transition for you!

5 Tips for Changing Grade Levels

You just found out you’ll be teaching a different grade next year. Potentially switching classrooms, teaching new curriculum, and working with new colleagues can be

How to Create a DIY Classroom Calendar

Does anyone remember the Everyday Math Calendars? I use to love doing those in my classroom with my students, even in the upper elementary grades.

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

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

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

Rules, procedures, and expectations must always be taught on the 1st day of school - but you should be doing other things on that first day, too! Read this list of 10 things every teacher must do on the 1st day of school to make that day more engaging and calming for your students.

10 Things Teachers MUST DO on the 1st Day of School!

Ahhhh… Summer is gone. Where did it go? It seems that it was only yesterday that you were packing up your classroom and driving off

Classroom management is always important, but if you really drive home your procedures and routines, then it's possible to have your classroom manage itself! I was running late to work one day, and my neighboring teacher covered my room for the few minutes that I was late. She raved on and on about how my students and classroom ran without me. So, learn my few tips to help you accomplish this with your classroom, too!

Have Your Classroom Manage Itself!

I remember one year, there was a day that I was running late to school, which was completely abnormal for me. I am one of

Teaching Procedures

I remember my first year teaching. I sat up at the front of the room and rambled through a long list of procedures. A long

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