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Setting Up Your Classroom for Back to School the Easy Way

Posted on July 11, 2022December 18, 2022 by Michele Luck

When you are handed the keys to your classroom for the coming year, you have an incredible urge to decorate for classroom perfection. In your head, you truly believe that if your classroom design and set-up are perfect, your student...Read More

Creating an Interactive (and Engaging) Classroom for Effective Behavior Management

Posted on February 20, 2020July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Middle and high school teachers often state that their greatest challenge is finding effective classroom management strategies. Classroom management is usually taught in education preparation programs, but it is skimmed over or introduced from older manuals and programs that worked...Read More

I Have a Dream: Teaching Unity for Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month

Posted on January 17, 2020July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Over five decades ago, the inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr., summed up our purpose as teachers. "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of...Read More

Teamwork and Collaboration in the Classroom: An Exercise to Assess Direction Following

Posted on December 2, 2019July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

How do you feel when a hundred different directions are thrown your way? Maybe your principal comes into your classroom after a stressful class period, listing off five things to-do within the next week? Or a student asks questions about...Read More

The Truth about Teaching Controversial Topics in the Secondary Classroom

Posted on October 7, 2019July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Especially in the current climate of political correctness and divisive tactics, teaching controversial topics in the secondary classroom may seem like asking for trouble. Though it may test your patience, teaching controversial topics in the classroom actually encourages empathy, improves...Read More