School and the City

Ideas and Resources for Your Elementary Classroom

Books to Promote Teacher Leadership

I'm not sure what I want to be when I grow up. I'm loving the classroom right now, but I think I'd eventually like to move towards teaching teachers. Over the summer, I was looking for some books to read to help myself grow into a teacher leader, so I asked my community on Instagram to share suggestions. Note: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. By purchasing an item from Amazon using ... Read More about Books to Promote Teacher Leadership

6 Ways to Help Students with Hearing Loss

This post was made possible through the support of Cochlear. All opinions are my own. It’s back to school season, so I bet you’ve spent lots of time arranging (and rearranging) your classroom! As we all do, I’m sure you’ve spent at least a little time reflecting this summer on how you can improve this year.  One area that I’m aiming to grow in this year is to better meet the needs of my ... Read More about 6 Ways to Help Students with Hearing Loss

Manage the NOISE in Your Classroom

Kids. They're so great, but boy can they get LOUD. I like to maintain a fun, exciting, interactive classroom environment, but with exciting activities comes excited voices. As you know, students get louder and louder in order to be heard over each other until they are no longer using inside voices. I have an easy tool for you to have students self-monitor the volume of their voices in the ... Read More about Manage the NOISE in Your Classroom

Teachers Love Tieks

Tieks. I am SURE you have heard of them, especially if you are a teacher that frequents Instagram and educational blogs. Tieks have a reputation in the online world of educators for being the go-to workday flats.   I have issues with shoes. (Okay, maybe it's my Achilles that are the issue.) I especially have trouble with flats. Before I found Tieks, I also hadn't found any flats that I could ... Read More about Teachers Love Tieks

The Partner Wheel

I don't know about you, but I have my students work with partners constantly. Sometimes partners are assigned strategically, based on data for intentional instruction. Sometimes, however, I just need my students to find a partner or at least someone to turn and talk to during think-pair-share. I was tired of my students taking forever to find a partner.I was tired of my kids working with ... Read More about The Partner Wheel