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Figuring out student seating arrangements can be an important early step in setting the stage for a successful classroom. Some teachers prefer to assign seats only after they’ve gotten to know their students a little […]

Circle Time is an activity performed in elementary schools to promote positive relationships between the children, and solve problems affecting the class. It encourages unity, respect, turn-taking, and working together toward a shared vision, and […]

Questions are important because they help us create a framework for understanding and discovery, whereas answers are (at most) temporary fixes to our problems. Both questions and answers must be updated over time as things […]

Motivation is a foundation block that often gets pushed aside because it doesn’t mesh with our teacher’s or supervisor’s vision of management. In his new blog post, Chase Mielke focuses on 6 ways we all […]

Many people now take probiotics in an effort to balance the critically important mixture of bacteria living in their bodies. Probiotics are generally safe for children, and usually have few side effects, although there are […]

Teachers often conduct a self-inventory as one school year ends and before another one begins. An important question they should ask themselves is what their weakest area of classroom management was over the past school […]

Teachers complain about their lives, and their students, in copy and break rooms across the country. Teaching is hard work and complaining can become second nature. Complaining about students is toxic. It easily leads to […]

The National Education Association (NEA) is now recruiting teachers onto their creative team to help determine how schools across the nation should be designed, and which curriculums should be put into place. It is only […]