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What Your Students Need Most Right Now: Consistency
Keeping Your Classroom Grounded When the Calendar Gets Chaotic You can feel it in the air—the excitement, the energy, and the countdowns. November and December bring all the things: Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, winter concerts, spirit days, and the slow drift toward winter break. The calendar is packed, routines get disrupted, and let’s be…
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Tips on How to be a Together (Ish) Teacher
Tips on How to be a Together (Ish) Teacher Starting your teaching journey is exciting—but it can also feel overwhelming when lesson plans, student data, and classroom materials start piling up. Organization isn’t just about color-coded bins or tidy desks; it’s about creating systems that help you work smarter, not harder. For beginning teachers, developing…
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Beyond the Four Walls: How New Teachers Can Spark Engagement and Build Thriving Classrooms
Beyond the Four Walls: How New Teachers Can Spark Engagement and Build Thriving Classrooms Your classroom is more than desks, walls, and a whiteboard. Your classroom is a community where curiosity can grow! As a new teacher, you have the unique opportunity to shape not just what your students learn, but how they feel about…
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Lesson Planning: How AI Can Enhance Your Lesson
Lesson Planning: How AI Can Enhance Your Lesson. As a beginning teacher, it is easy to constantly struggle with juggling everything from lesson planning to grading to parent communication to PLC meetings…you name it. All of this can feel very overwhelming; like you are trying to keep your head above water. AI can take the…
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The Power of End-of-Year Reflections
The Power of End-of-Year Reflections. As May arrives, so too does the whirlwind of end-of-year activity in our schools. Hallways buzz with the intensity of testing season, final projects are wrapping up, and celebrations like Field Day and awards ceremonies fill the calendar. Classrooms begin their transformation for summer, signaling both closure and transition. In…
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Universal Design for Learning: Inclusive Strategies for All Learners
Universal Design for Learning: Inclusive Strategies for All Learners By: Dr. Betsy Rosenbalm, Regional Director at App State Featuring: Karla Causey, BT at American Renaissance Charter School in Statesville, NC The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework emphasizes that designing instruction for one student often benefits many—or even all—students in the classroom. This idea stems…
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Lesson Planning: How AI Can Enhance Your Lesson
As a beginning teacher, it is easy to constantly struggle with juggling everything from lesson planning to grading to parent communication to PLC meetings…you name it. All of this can feel very overwhelming; like you are trying to keep your head above water. AI can take the guesswork out of things like lesson planning, differentiation/personalized…
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Leveling up Student Learning with Student Voice and Choice
Leveling up Student Learning with Student Voice and Choice Do you want to deepen student thinking and increase learning? This time of year, often teachers reflect on how to ensure and deepen student understanding with the time remaining in the academic school year. We all want to be seen and heard. No exceptions. Giving students…
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Promoting Authentic Engagement and Active Learning Opportunities
Around the midpoint of the school year, it is often a time to pause, reflect, and recharge. We must not lose sight that each student can achieve at high levels. It is our job as educators to bring out the best in every child and motivate each to learn. Have you ever pondered if your…
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“Raising The Roof:” Using Pop Music to Build Content Understanding
“Raising The Roof:” Using Pop Music to Build Content Understanding What kind of music motivates you? What does it motivate you to do? Sing? Dance? Think? Connect with others? Each of these actions (well, especially the last two) are the kinds of things we see students engage in each day in our classrooms. Yet, we…
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