Helping All Students Gain Success with Brainteaser Puzzles
It’s Monday morning. Most of your students are at their desks, pencil in hand, happily working through their Puzzle of the Day challenge. Some students…
Teaching Perseverance to Students
Have you noticed that kids give up too easily these days? Yeah, me too. In this fast paced world we live in, everything comes quick…
5 Ways to Use Invisible Ink in the Classroom
When Spring Fever sets in, it’s time to pull out the bells and whistles. AND…by bells and whistles I mean invisible ink, of course! If…
Partner Your Students With Ease
I’m always looking for creative ways to manage my classroom. I find that things just operate more smoothly when there is a system in place.…
Improve Student Work Quality
If your students produce quality work all of the time, then read no further. This post is for teachers like myself with students who have…
How to Fund a Lockbox
So, you are ready to take the plunge and try a Lockbox Challenge in your classroom, but the cost of materials is preventing you from…
Yarn Tassel Garland DIY
Have you seen all the beautiful bulletin boards these days? Amazing fonts, colors, pom-poms, and garlands have me swooning. I had been looking to purchase…
Lock Code Tags
Using Lockbox Challenges in my classroom has been a serious game changer. I absolutely love what these challenges offer to my students, but I must…
Lockbox Tour
It’s fair to say that I have become kind of totally obsessed with lockboxes lately. Where have these things been my whole teaching life? After my…
DIY Number Function Box
Function boxes, or “in and out machines”, are a great way to introduce basic algebraic thinking to young learners. Students analyze the input and output…