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The Responsive Mindset: 4 Ways the Classroom Environment Can Lower the Affective Filter
In the last blog, we discussed how to create a responsive physical classroom environment that focuses on both cultural and academic features. If you missed that one, you can find it here. But what about the feeling of the classroom? What? Classrooms have feelings? Well, not exactly, but students certainly do. We all have an… Read more
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Responsive Teaching Mindset: Setting Up a Physical Classroom Environment for Learning
The year has started! Hopefully you (or your teachers) have already fallen in love with your students! I hope you have the kid that makes you laugh, and the kid that makes your heart bleed, and the kid that is trying to please you so badly. I’m sure you have the kid who is already… Read more
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Reteach or Refresh? 2 Strategies to “fill the gap” quickly!
As the 2022/2023 school year gets underway, the academic gaps that we know have been deepening over the past few years will begin to surface quickly. Out of the goodness of their hearts and their passion for teaching, many teachers will be tempted to want to reteach the entire last year! While I completely understand… Read more
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The Need for Teacher Clarity, and Why It’s Missing In So Many Classrooms…
Like in all aspects in life, when there is a clear target to hit, we are much more apt to make progress. If you simply set out to “get healthier”, there is a much lesser chance that you will actually make sustainable progress than if you were to say, “I want to lose 10 pounds,… Read more
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5 Ways Parents Can Keep Students on Track this Summer!
I originally wrote this blog during the COVID shut down, but the practices are absolutely true for summers as well! I know it’s hard to keep students engaged during summer, but it’s worth it! There are 5 things I want you to remember that will keep your students moving forward during this time: Read to… Read more
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What is a Responsive Classroom?
And why is it so very important? As we are finishing up the 2022-2023 school year, and starting to think about the next school year, we can’t deny that this year was incredibly hard, for teachers and students alike. Did you feel like you were constantly putting out fires this year? As you are trying… Read more