If you are a frequent user of an iPod, iPad, or iPhone in your classroom, you may be interested in this application that makes taking running records a breeze.

Exit tickets provide a way to progress monitor and inform instruction.

Here is a clever craft idea that will end "I Can't Find A Pencil" laments forever.  

Download a variety of certificates to use as a fun and effective way to celebrate your students' positive behaviors.

Help students feel accepted and valued in the classroom with this book. Encourage students to reflect on themes with printables.

Increasing students' self-efficacy in the classroom involves implementing strategies that build their confidence in their abilities to succeed and overcome challenges.

Use this writing activity at the end of the year, as a summer assignment, or as a back to school icebreaker!

As we approach the end of the school year, introduce this special memory book to your students.

Sending notes home with students about the good things they do has many benefits! Use one of the templates or create your own.

Learn about the shift in the way we share it.

Every year we get questions and concerns about choice. Read on to see some of the answers!

Print these bookmarks to support students during Read to Someone.

Academic and behavior ideas inside!

Here are 4 strategies we use to hold our readers accountable.

Kristen Ackerman shares several ways teachers can offer academic and personal compliments to students.

In Karen Shannon's third-grade class, students know they are special. She works hard to build a relationship with each student. These special relationships create a bond between teacher and child that result in mutual trust and fondness.

Five book clubs that promote enjoyment of a shared text.

Morning messages can be more than just a hello. 

What do you do when students want to choose the same spot to work? 3 ideas to help you out. 

Principal, Jon Konen, shares five ways to allocate more money for classrooms implementing Daily 5.

Your students will love this quick, fun, kinesthetic way to practice new learning.

Watch how quick and easy it is to collect and use this powerful formative assessment tool.

Kelly Yahr takes us on a tour of some of her favorite classroom solutions for supporting student learning.

If your students seem stuck on a series or genre, don't worry.

Try this fun idea to build engagement and incorporate musical brain and body breaks. 

Rethinking your system for how and when you collect interesting words may help turn your students into Word Wizards. Trish shares six ideas.

These eight ideas will help keep interest high until the last bell of the school year rings.

Take a look at this simple but powerful idea to ignite excitement for reading and introduce students to new books.

Add this to your list of ways to create the classroom culture you want!

A fun way to engage your students and build a stronger classroom community? How it works >>

One of the best things I add to our I-charts when we are building behaviors for any independent work is . . .

Take a look at a quick and interesting way that one teacher takes the temperature in her room on how students are feeling.

Build your classroom libraries while parents are spring cleaning! Take a look at a few steps to get started. 

Build strong relationships with students using this simple strategy.

You won't want to miss the detail in this writing journal!

Discover two books that usually inspire students to produce a blitz of acrostic poetry.

Just in time for National Poetry Month comes an idea that you are going to love! 

This easy and accessible tool helps inspire writers and enrich vocabulary.

Here are some clever way to prepare for a new school year.

A few times a month, Bob Johnson's fifth graders do a book talk to promote what they are reading. They call it Book Share and it is a favorite of everyone in the class.

Danielle demonstrates drawing out cues young and easily-distracted students.

Here are a couple of ideas for student research reports.

Support new teachers with a Teacher Shower.                    

Julie Ahrendson shares how personalized writing notebooks inspire her students to write.