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Structured Academic Conversations in ELA
“Hey… hi… hello, can you hear me? Can you [take your earbuds out], [put your head up], [talk with a partner], please?”
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Relationship Building Activities that Still Teach ELA
It's the first week of school; you don’t know the students, and they don’t know you. You want to start off building relationships but know you need...
First Week Writing Tasks Beyond "What I Did This Summer"
In high school, many students spent their summer working, babysitting younger siblings, or playing video games. Others were at the pool, had their...
Summer Reading and Writing Challenges
Before you’re of working age to get a job for the summer, the idea of filling up almost 12 weeks of time is intimidating and can lead to feeling...
Helping Students Visualize What They Read
For fluent readers, reading is like having a movie play in their minds. But for struggling readers, they see pages and pages of text. Stopping to...
Creative Earth Day Activities for Students
What the Earth signifies to me… We've covered that already. The Earth is suffering from pollution, and we must protect it! Been there, done that!...
Tips for Student-Lead Classes
We’ve heard of Project-Based Learning (PBLs), which allows students to mostly have independent leadership through a task or project and creative...
Tips for Avoiding Teacher Burnout
Even if it's your life's passion, teaching can be draining.
How To Manage Your Classroom And Keep Your Patience
Here’s my one caveat, if you’re bothered by a lot and expect quiet student perfection, this might not be the classroom management plan for you. But...
10 Tips For First-Year Teachers
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...