Teaching Resources For Sustainable, Innovative Teaching

12 Ideas For Easing Students Back to School

You are handed a classroom full of students who are excited to be back but not so enthusiastic to study. This is an opportunity!

Team-Building games for the first day of school include Green Door, I never…, Me too!, Fact or Fiction, and Count to Ten.

Social-Emotional Teaching is every bit as important as Social-Emotional Learning. Teaching matters and teachers matter

So what does quality have to do with learning? Quite a bit, it turns out. And it starts out with helping students understand what it means.

‘Believing in students’ isn’t enough–they have to have sufficient knowledge or experience with ideas and skills to ‘do well in school.’

Benefits of meditation in the classroom include reduced stress, improved concentration, and emotional regulation.

In this example of rigor-based differentiation, notice how the students’ results are similar, but the process and scaffolding are different.

If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.