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How To Create a Meet & Greet for Back to School

Posted on July 31, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

The first days of school can be rough on teachers and students alike. Finding strategies to help break the ice can be time-saving in building a positive learning environment and can help you step into your content in a creative...Read More

How-To Use Topic Cards in Your Classroom

Posted on June 6, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Are you working toward giving students more autonomy and independence in your classroom? Have you used Topic Cards for your Genius Hour projects? Or are you stumped on how to use generic resources for complex learning? Here's a simple how-to...Read More

Traveling from the Classroom

Posted on April 25, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Toward the end of the school year, student focus can be a great challenge. I always found that my students started looking more through the windows than they did toward the board as the spring months rolled around and summer...Read More

Teaching Prediction: Looking to the Future in the Secondary Classroom

Posted on March 21, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As a history teacher, it can be quite the challenge to teach prediction. Even more challenging can be the task of encouraging our students to look to the future and to begin living a life that can contribute to the...Read More

The Importance of Similarities: Teaching Modern Issues in the Secondary Classroom

Posted on March 14, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

At the secondary level, students are often aware of modern world events and issues as they step into the classroom. Along with that knowledge often comes questions and concerns, and sometimes confusion and anxiety. Yet teaching modern issues in the...Read More

Management in the 1:1 Digital Classroom

Posted on February 12, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

When my district first went 1:1 with all students at the secondary level receiving Macbook Airs, I was super excited that I would have such amazing access to great resources for all of the interactive lessons I taught. I had...Read More

Teaching the “Social” in Social Studies

Posted on January 25, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

I can remember my first year of teaching quite well. I often heard one comment from students over and over: "You can't teach that!" Being a history teacher, and one that is adamant that it is important to tell all...Read More

Taking A Gamble: Preparing for a Sub in the Secondary Classroom

Posted on January 15, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As winter set in each year, so did sinus infections that filled me with fever, mucous, and dread. I could handle the sweats and chills. I could take on the drips and floods. But the thought of placing my classroom...Read More

Monday Mapping: National Poetry Month

Posted on April 6, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

"I think that I shall never see/ A poem as lovely as a tree..." In my 7th grade English class, I had to memorize the classic poem by Joyce Kilmer. Honestly, the first two lines are the only I can...Read More

Monday Mapping: A New Reading Guide with a Twist

Posted on February 2, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Helping students get the most from reading texts is every teacher's goal, but often a great challenge. There are a number of reading tools, graphic organizers, and anticipation guides out there, but it's important to find what will work best...Read More