Teaching Growth Mindset in the 21st Century Classroom

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The term growth mindset is on fire in educational circles today. But how does one go about teaching growth mindset? What does growth mindset actually mean? The true definition of a growth mindset has been investigated for decades. With the original intent of researching how individuals responded to failure in mind, Dr. Carol Dweck was … Read more

5 Easy Ideas for Brain Breaks During Testing

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Over the past few years, “testing” has become a bit of a dirty word in education. What used to be for placement or just checking to make sure students were hitting certain benchmarks has become an orchestrated production. Different states have different requirements, but the sheer volume of testing has increased greatly. With the focus … Read more

4 Amazon Speakers with Alexa Skills for Classroom Success

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Throughout our brain breaks series, we have been discussing various ways to incorporate brain breaks into the classroom. We have discussed books (ad),  classroom activities, and places like YouTube. There is one place that we haven’t discussed, and it is versatile in more ways than just with brain breaks. It is by using an Amazon … Read more

Easy Reteaching Strategies for the 21st Century Classroom Using Data

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Odds are, no matter what topic you’re discussing or what grade levels you teach, you will not have 100% of your students master the skill the first time you teach it. This isn’t because we’re all terrible teachers; it’s because students learn in different ways and at different paces. This means that you will always … Read more

How did Renaissance Art Reflect Humanism: Lesson Plan

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I still remember the first time I projected an image of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam onto my classroom screen during my second year of teaching World History. A student in the back row, the kind who had perfected the art of looking attentive while mentally checking out, suddenly leaned forward. “Wait,” he said, squinting at the nearly … Read more

Setting Behavior Goals in K-12 for Effective Intervention

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I still remember the exact sound. It was a Tuesday in late October, second period, my 9th-grade world history class. We were mid-discussion about the Treaty of Versailles, and for one of those rare, precious moments, nearly every student was locked in. Hands were going up. Students were responding to each other without my prompting. … Read more

Creating an Effective Classroom Discipline Plan for Behavior

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The classroom discipline plan you used five years ago probably won’t cut it today. I have worked with many K-12 teachers over the past several years, watching talented educators struggle with behavior problems that their training never prepared them for. The old model of posting classroom rules, listing consequences, and hoping that punitive measures would … Read more

Financial Assistance Using Teaching Grants in K-12

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School budgets are stretched thinner than most taxpayers realize. A single classroom set of calculators can wipe out an entire department’s discretionary fund for the year. A class set of novels for a literature unit often comes out of the teacher’s own paycheck. I know this because I lived it. The natural reaction is frustration, … Read more