How Avoiding Comparisons Can Help You Fight Teacher Burnout
Staying positive by avoiding comparisons is one of the best ways to ward off teacher burnout. It’s not always easy to do so in the midst of a stressful season…
What ELA Teachers Can Learn from a Rockstar Librarian
Teaching reading? ELA teachers are constantly searching for new inspiration. How can we get more students to read? How can we create a warm, inviting literacy culture? How can we…
Making Positive Parent Phone Calls
Prepping for a new school year? Setting goals for your evaluation? Reflecting upon how you can improve your teaching? Problem-solving classroom management issues? Consider making positive parent phone calls a…
Classroom Book Clubs: Independent Reading Accountability and Assessments
This post is the third in a three-part series about engaging middle and high school students in choice reading by running a book club in the classroom. Keep reading to…
Classroom Book Clubs: Establishing Independent Reading Expectations and Creating a Schedule
This article is the second in a three-part series about how to run classroom book clubs. Part 1 details information about why book club is critical and how to engage…
How to Run a Full-Choice Book Club in Your Classroom: Independent Reading in Secondary
This post is the first in a three-part series about how to run a book club in your classroom. The second post details how to establish expectations and create a schedule,…
Visual Literacy Matters: Why We Should Teach Students How to “Read” Videos
Teaching students to read visual texts is just as important as showing them how to read print texts. In this post, read about why visual literacy needs to be taught…
Email Etiquette: Teaching Students How to Email a Teacher
Email etiquette can be one of the most beneficial writing lessons of the school year. Students make great gains in a short amount of time. Consider… From: [email protected] To: [email protected]…
Teacher Wardrobe: Outfit Shopping Made Easy
Looking for teacher wardrobe outfits? Welcome to “This or That,” a monthly chat where the authors of Reading and Writing Haven and Language Arts Classroom cover different ways of approaching common decisions in…
Inspirational Quotes for Teacher Motivation
Teaching is a labor of love. It’s not always easy. We pour our hearts and souls into our profession, love kids who need it but don’t always show they appreciate…
Summer Slide Prevention: 9 Tips for Creating Literacy-Rich Environments
Trying to prevent the summer slide? Read about nine tips for creating literacy-rich environments at home during the summer, or any time of year! Teachers can support parents by educating…
5 Common Classroom Management Issues in High School
Whether you’ve landed your first teaching job, you’ve been in the classroom a few years, or you’re a seasoned veteran, certain classroom management issues rear their ugly heads every year….
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