Top 3 Tips: Setting Your School Year Up for Success
For students, the back-to-school checklist mainly consists of the standard list of supplies, the requisite instructional materials, and maybe a new...
AP & Honors Mathematics
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Literacy Skills & Intensive Reading
Connections: Reading – Grades 6–12
Empower student success with a proven intensive reading program that develops strong reading skills in striving readers.
Drama, Speech & Debate
Basic Drama Projects 10th Edition
Build students’ confidence and competence with comprehensive, project-based theatre instruction.
Literature
Connections: Literature
Support learners as they study dynamic, relevant texts and bring the richness of diverse voices to students through literature.
Literature & Thought
Develop critical thinking, reading, and writing across literacy themes, genres, historical eras, and current events.
Language Arts
Vocabu-Lit® – Grades 6–12
Help students build word power using high-quality contemporary and classic literature, nonfiction, essays, and more.
Connections: Writing & Language
Help students develop grammar, usage, mechanics, vocabulary, spelling, and writing and editing skills.
Reading/English Language Arts
Measuring Up to the English Language Arts Standards
Incorporate standards-driven teaching strategies to complement your ELA curriculum.
English Language Learners
Measuring Up for English Language Learners
Incorporate research-based best practices for ELLs with an approach that includes a focus on language acquisition strategies.
Mathematics
Measuring Up to the Mathematics Standards
Incorporate standards-driven teaching strategies to complement your mathematics curriculum.
Foundations
Measuring Up Foundations
Help students master foundational math skills that are critical for students to find academic success.
Science
Measuring Up to the Next Generation Science Standards
Give students comprehensive NGSS coverage while targeting instruction and providing rigorous standards practice.
Assessment
Measuring Up Live
Deliver innovative assessment and practice technology designed to offer data-driven instructional support.
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This will be my 12th year teaching high school ELA, and you could say I’ve learned a few things that I wished I knew going into year one. One thing is clear about 12 years: there are going to be fun and easy years and there are going to be hard and challenging years. And I honestly can’t say why they vary so much sometimes. The key is to hold on and set a goal for yourself to thrive at something new, challenge your students in a new way, and keep the faith that you are a teacher for a reason.
In no particular order, here are my top tips for staying cool, calm, and collected as you start your teaching journey!
Jennifer Epping is a high school English and journalism teacher in Des Moines, Iowa. She has a passion for reading, writing, and making lame jokes to her students just to see them laugh or roll their eyes. She just concluded her ninth year teaching. Epping graduated from Iowa State University with a BS in journalism and mass communication (2010) and BA in English Education (2013). She attended New York University’s Summer Publishing Institute (2010), and spent some time in children’s book publishing in New York.
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