When you’re experiencing personal or professional change, it can be difficult to take care of yourself and your family while teaching full-time. Here are my top 4 tips for navigating change while engaging your students. … More Teachers, help yourself stay ship-shape during a storm: Four tips to balance life changes while teaching full time
Improve content-area vocabulary development in your middle school classroom by using word walls. This blog post gives three tips for making your word wall more interactive. … More Content area reading skills: The power of word walls + 3 ways to make your word walls interactive!
Use fiction as a hook for improving nonfiction reading skills in your middle school classroom. … More Find your storybook ending: Using fiction text as a hook for building better nonfiction reading skills in the middle school classroom
Make the most of those weeks between the holiday breaks by bringing cross-curricular activities to your middle school science classroom. … More Bring wonder and engagement back to your classroom before the winter holidays with cross-curricular activities
Teaching during the weeks before a holiday is like opening a long-forgotten closet. You watch as, in slow motion, all of the coats, Christmas decorations, and brooms tumble out the closet door while feeling powerless to stop it. What does this analogy look, feel, and sound like in a pre-holiday classroom? Students are slumped over … More Teaching Mixtape: Six tips for surviving and thriving in the chaos of your classroom before a holiday break
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Find inspiration for creating cross-curricular lessons in your own life. Read on for my top three tips for sourcing ideas for the cross-curricular classroom. … More Finding your Teacher Crosswalk: Sourcing inspiration for cross-curricular lesson plans in your own life
Kick off back to school with a slide template freebie from Crosswalk Curriculum. … More And Really, Who Doesn’t Love Free Stuff? Find free teaching resources at TPT!
This blog post includes a review of the book The 5-Minute Teacher and provides an overview of how I plan to manage time more effectively in my classroom. … More Using Quality Feedback from Teacher Evaluations to Become a More Effective Teacher: A Brief Review of the Book The 5-Minute Teacher
Use discussion in your middle school science classroom to catalyze learning about solstices and equinoxes. … More Science Teacher Tips: How to Use Earth Science Misconceptions to Ignite Student Discussions during Equinoxes and Solstices
This infographic shows the basics of teaching a cross-curricularl lesson set in the middle school classroom. … More Tiny Teaching Tips: Ways to Integrate Other Teaching Subjects into Your Lessons for Improved Student Understanding
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