When students are taught the rules and the expectations and know the consequences, management of student behavior will be smooth sailing.

My first job at a school very much believed in the power of Morning Meeting. I was able to meld my Morning Meeting time into a tradition.

Community building in the classroom is one of the most important things we do as teachers! Here are some awesome community building activities.

One thing that I never did much of until this year was focus on building a strong classroom community. I felt like I had good relationships with my students, but I realized I wasn’t very good at fostering my students’ relationships with their peers. How important that is! If students aren’t valuing and respecting each other, then it can be really hard to get much accomplished during the day. So this year, after learning more about Responsive Classroom and building classroom community, I…

There are so many amazing options when you go to choose a morning meeting activity. How do you pick?! So, I have morning meeting preplanned for the whole year, but we know sometimes even the most well intentioned lesson plans need to be adapted for our students! I am going to help you navigate this...

Morning Meeting Activities will help students fall in love with school! Help students become life longer learners by implementing morning meeting!

Morning meetings can support social-emotional learning in all the best ways! Use some of these morning meeting ideas to work on social-emotional skills and community building to give your day a positive start. (morning routine, elementary, SEL, class meeting, classroom community, morning meeting routines)

Starting your day off with morning meeting games is a sure way to get your students feeling positive, energized, and ready to learn! It is also the BEST way for them to have fun while not even realizing they are practicing those oh so important social emotional skills. WIN WIN! There are hundred of games...

Closing Circle in the classroom The end of the day used to be chaotic for my students and me. I would be teaching, and suddenly the bell would ring. We would rush to pack up all our belongings. Students would forget to stack their chairs, leave homework on top of their desk, and leave the […]