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Classroom Strategies for Students With Higher Social-Emotional Needs

We all have students with higher needs than others, whether those needs are academic or social-emotional. It’s often easy to identify the children with…

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Reset Your Classroom to Survive Spring

Every teacher knows that any given school year is riddled with interruptions and disruptions. By the time spring rolls around, it often feels like you’re never…

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How to Use Reading Strategy Groups in Your Classroom

table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } Reading used to be my least favorite subject to teach. I didn’t feel like I was helping my students grow as…

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How to Make Flexible Seating Work for Your Unique Learners

Long before “Flexible Seating” became a buzzword in education, there were teachers who implemented the concept in their classrooms. You might have even been one…

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Things You Won't Learn About Teaching in Grad School

A traditional description of graduate school for education might go something like this: "One to two years spent learning pedagogy, talking about behavior scenarios,…

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How to Relieve Your Students’ Test-Taking Anxiety

As teachers, we experience a lot of stress as a result of state testing. So do our students. Sitting and taking a test for hours is not part of their daily…

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5 Fun Ways to Get Your Students to Love Math

Every classroom has a few students who have a negative attitude towards math. New math concepts are hard for them to learn, and they weren’t successful with math in…

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