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Birthday calendar board wall hanging with colored clothespins - Personalize me! Hand painted, NO VIN

Hi everyone, I’m here to show you how I made my tissue paper border for my bulletin board. I posted a picture of it on Instagram last week and I was blown away with all the requests for a tutorial! So, as promised, I'm going to show you how it's done :) I know, I know... This border looks difficult! I guarantee that it will be the easiest thing you have ever done and you will LOVE all the compliments from your students, parents, and colleagues! Here we go... First, you need to choose 3…

Here is the information substitute teachers like to see in your binder. These ten pages are all you need to include!

You NEED to try these 8 GENIUS hacks for bulletin boards!

For an adult, the first day of middle school is rather terrifying. You’re sitting down, minding your own business, when you hear a horrid noise and you know that’s the first bell. Sud…

Small curtain for classroom door. For testing and Lock-Down Drills- It measures 9" x 46-47" when unrolled. It has two 18" straps to secure it in a rolled position. When rolled up, the shade will measure approximately 9" wide by 8" long.

Root word wall! Next year this will be a new goal of mine.

This is definitely a heated debate among educators to give or not give students a pencil when they arrive to your class without one. Read 10 different possible solutions to the classroom pencil problem.

Author Facebook Profiles: When I first started teaching, I purchased posters with biographical information about famous English authors and proudly displayed them on my back bulletin board. Sadly, no one looked at them. Okay, that’s not entirely true. I had the occasional, “Awesome! This dude’s last name is Bacon” comment, but it didn’t exactly get my students

A classroom seating chart strategy to help group your students into pods by ability that helps all learners maximize potential.

A lot of us teach in schools where the grading policy is set and there can be no changes to it. This was refreshing for me when I was a first year

Over the last four years, I have taught at two different schools, three buildings, and four classrooms. One of the rooms only had ONE bookcase and a rolling cart for storage (the desks didn’t have any storage either!)! I somehow got it to work. With all these changes, I have learned what I need and … Continue reading Top 7 Teacher Must Haves

Affiliate links may have been used in this post. FREE offers are often time-sensitive and may be limited time only.Up to 75% of the English language is derived from Latin and Greek roots, so an understanding of these languages aids in an understanding of the English language. This free, printable Greek and Latin Root Tree is aRead More

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Fostering a classroom reading community with a student driven Reading Graffiti Wall

Want to make this for my classroom!