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It is incredibly exhausting when you have a student who is struggling in your upper-elementary classroom, and you just cannot pinpoint why. You watch them
Test anxiety and student testing struggles are real, and if you’ve seen it happen, you know exactly what I’m talking about. That student who crushed
You can talk about the circulatory system until you’re blue in the face, or you can let kids squeeze fake blood through tubes and make
Your admin just announced another “data-driven initiative,” and you felt your soul leave your body for a solid ten seconds. More data-driven instruction? Ugh. Can
Do you have students who can confidently say, “12 inches = 1 foot,” but who struggle to answer when asked how many inches are in
You made a unit on ecosystems that you think is great. It has colorful worksheets on the food chain, a wall with vocabulary phrases, and
One of my students was a bright kid who had done well on all the area and perimeter worksheets I had given him. He was
This post contains Amazon Affiliate Links. You just finished teaching your plant unit, but something seems amiss. Sure, the kids labeled their plant diagrams correctly.
Do you remember learning how to ride a bike? I do. I pulled out the bicycle manual and read it cover to cover. Then, I
Picture a fourth grader standing in front of her gingerbread house, one hand holding a spray bottle and the other hand carrying a page of
The last December I taught, I did something I’m not proud of. I pulled up a worksheet of word problems right before lunch, and my
If you’ve ever taught mixtures and solutions, you know it can get… well, messy. Water everywhere, substances scattered across desks, and that inevitable moment when
