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Teachers know how to amp up engagement in the area of math. The first way is to provide hands-on learning, and the second is to incorporate color. Our Build and…
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Teachers know how to amp up engagement in the area of math. The first way is to provide hands-on learning, and the second is to incorporate color. Our Build and…
Creating a caring teacher-to-student and student-to-student environment impacts classrooms both behaviorally and academically. Building positive relationships with students isn’t always as easy as it seems. Joining a large group of…
We have new resources for adding numbers to 5, 10, and 20. Addition is a pre-requisite skill for all other math strands. The more opportunities we can provide students to…
Our new series of monthly classroom slides for teaching provides a solution to transitions, behavior, morning meetings, lesson reflections, stations, and more. From welcoming students in, celebrating birthdays, and providing…
Back to School has us in a chokehold of classroom function, style, and organization. The organization fairies have been hard at work preparing new labels for student folders. Get your…
You may have heard about my complete management shift for running math workstations during a challenging school year. I have shared this story in our full day Guided Math Workshop…
In a recent Instagram Reel, I shared some math station organization favorites. I had many comments and questions about the baskets, bins, and bags, so I wanted to have a…
This blog post discusses the importance of daily math skills in the classroom and how they can affect student achievement and success. It provides tips and resources for teachers to…
Although we still have a few weeks left, it’s the time of the school year when our minds turn to THE END TIMES… Ahem, I mean closing out the school…
It’s time for a fresh round-up of Earth Day Activities to use with children in the classroom or at home. This post will highlight Earth Day learning activities, Earth Day…
Breaking through the one-size-fits-all math block, the Guided Math framework + blockbuster teaching strategies allow us to make math a paramount hit for both teachers and students. This post will…
When it is time to review in preparation for state testing in math, there are many ways to go about it. This post shares ten engaging themes to motivate any…
As a classroom teacher for eighteen years, I notice students consistently struggle with certain math information and problem-solving, regardless of grade level or math curriculum. To support students with this,…
In eighteen years of teaching, I could always depend on dice to bring interest and engagement to my classroom. With the nudge of a teacher bestie, we finally organized and…
Today’s post focuses on our best resources to support structured literacy. We’ve gathered our most effective and practical resources for systematic and supportive instruction in literacy. Structured Literacy is the application…
This post will cover simple ways to collect data in a math classroom. Math Data Tracking should be two things: simple and effective. Our goal in bringing these ideas and…
Mastering our math minutes for Guided Math means choosing the best schedule to fit the needs of the learners in the room. This post will look at five successful Guided…
Monthly classroom slides are a collection of themed teaching slides for organization, transitions, and management of a classroom throughout the day. Each month, we engage students from when they enter…
Let’s jump into a packed post of January learning and resources to make returning to school as fresh as the fallen snow…kidding I live in south Texas. Regardless, I have…
Number Talks are a powerful way to develop both number sense and computational fluency. There is no prep involved for the teacher, making it a perfect math warm-up for a…
Differentiation is one of the leading concerns and needs for classrooms today. Teachers understand that teaching one math lesson directly to a roomful of students in one sitting does not…
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