If you’re a student who is continually late to a sports practice or your next class, you may be wondering, “Can teachers keep you after the bell?” After all, it’s easy to imagine plenty of situations where teachers holding kids after the bell would become frustrating. If you’re a well-behaved kid who is also being…
Sometimes a public school, or even entire school districts, will have policies forbidding students from wearing hoods in class, the hallways, or elsewhere on school grounds. In more extreme situations, dress codes may have a full hoodie ban. In other instances, the dress code itself will make no mention of a hooded sweatshirt in the…
Recently, my sweet kindergartener made a bad choice at school. To protect her privacy (hehe), I won’t go into details. I also have the experience of being the 3rd grade teacher making that uncomfortable phone call or filing that online report. So I absolutely know both sides of the bad-day-at-school coin. I hope my perspective…
I’ve been an elementary school reading teacher, a reading interventionist, and now a reading instructional coach. I’ve had so much fun compiling this list of the best, most appropriate books for 5th graders. Some are timeless treasures and others are modern winners. Most are likely to inspire some social emotional learning and expand the imagination….
I’ve been an elementary school reading teacher, a reading interventionist, and now a reading instructional coach. Plus, I’ve got a 7 year old daughter who is obsessed with reading! I’ve had so much fun compiling this list of the best chapter books for 6th graders. In fact, this list was supposed to be just 10…
I taught third graders for several years, and I’m now an instructional coach for elementary school reading teachers. Plus, I’ve got a little girl at home who is an avid reader. All of the books below are currently on our shelf at home, and I’ve used several of them as classroom texts. These are the…
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