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Never before seen End of School Year Ideas and Activities
The end of the school year activities can be challenging to plan. Too much or too little when you are busy packing up your classroom, running around with last minute can be exhausting. Here’s some no prep no stress end of year ideas for elementary! End of School Year ideas: End of the year Postcards…
Read MoreFill your Teacher Heart with these Positive Teacher Affirmations
Teacher Affirmations can be a powerful self care strategy for educators. Positive teacher affirmations can help you ground yourself and reflect on your role. Many of these teacher affirmations can be applied to distance learning! Let’s look at teacher affirmations – how to use them and what they are. If you are reading this before…
Read MoreStandardized testing – are you seeing red? Try these online test prep ideas for your class!
Standardized Test Prep for elementary – yes I’m running for the hills as I write this too, but it doesn’t have to be such a scary time. I love building in online test prep for elementary students all. year. long, so when it comes time we don’t have to cram everything in and we are…
Read MoreTeacher Appreciation Week 2021 Gift Guide- show your heart with ideas for what teacher really want!
Virtual Teacher Appreciation 2021 or in person teacher appreciation day or teacher appreciation week – WE (collectively need to blow it up this year!) These Teacher Appreciation Week ideas for 2021 are meant to inspire the educators in your life. Share far and wide – with administrators, community, other parents, parent organizations ….. so we…
Read MoreFinding Time for a Virtual Morning Meeting or Daily Check-In with Students
Morning Meetings are an essential part of student relationships and a foundational element to the classroom. I didn’t start out doing morning meeting each day but quickly learned after I implemented it that. If you want a HUGE list (literally my favorite and best ideas for virtual morning meetings) that works in person too –…
Read MoreWhat to do for Morning Meeting – questions, games, activities, ideas for YOUR classroom
Morning Meeting is an essential time for EVERY classroom! I want to preface this post saying that any part of a virtual morning meeting can also be done in person – these ideas ALL WORK for both – which is awesome! If you know about morning meetings and just want some quick morning meeting ideas…
Read MoreYour virtual teacher appreciation idea! Staff egg hunt with distance teaching rewards
Virtual teacher appreciation ideas for 2021 are the BEST! Here’s a fun online virtual staff egg hunt perfect for any school! Lots of virtual students reward ideas and online student reward ideas exist, but for staff it can be tough to choose what virtual ideas will be motivating. This virtual reward idea is a virtual…
Read MoreTeacher Flair Pens – the ultimate handwriting accessory that every educator needs (YES…YOU!)
Pens for teachers especially Flair Pens, yes they do deserve an entire post for themselves with all the new options. Flair Pens are such a great teacher gift. We love teacher flair pens because: they don’t bleed they look awesome they have great color selection they don’t smear In every poll I’ve done they always…
Read MoreDistance Learning Virtual Rewards for Online Learning to motivate student success
Virtual rewards for students are essential for distance learning. How we can motivate and encourage student success looks different in online learning. Distance learning classroom rewards are going to look different than traditional classroom awards because you are not physically present with students, BUT …. there is hope! Let’s dig into some virtual student reward…
Read MoreClassroom management for distance learning – what are the mistakes and how to avoid them
What does classroom management look like for distance learning? What does classroom management look like for hybrid or transition to in person learning? The cornerstone of classroom management (especially this back to school season) is your students and classroom community, BUT so important to remember this point below. Sarah said it better than I ever…
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