When it goes well, a parent call can be a transformative moment in your relationship with the student, and by extension in your classroom.

The actual call can be scary, because you never know what you’re gonna get. 

Calling your students’ parents can be intimidating… but it’s also a central component in meeting your students’ needs.

No more wasted class time. Sponge Activities soak up those lost minutes of learning so every class is bell-to-bell instruction!

Working with difficult students requires us to model what we want our students to become: Calm. Confident. Knowledgeable. Caring. Unflappable. Here’s how.

Firm structure and thoughtful classroom practices can help you meet the needs of challenging students.

Deep in their hearts EVERY student has the same question: “What are you going to do about it?” Effective teachers provide a quick, calm, and fair answer.

It’s incredibly hard to teach when your students wont behave. It’s demoralizing, and there are no easy answers. Here are 18 suggestions to - not fix it, but to help make it better. (Part 1)

(or, why I hauled in the sofas and beanbags… and then hauled them right back out again).

I wanted to see if Chat GPT could replicate a believable student voice. Here are the results of my experiment… and what it means for teachers.

Having students demonstrate their learning through gross motor activities can help with attention, engagement, and classroom management.

In Part 2 of our series on cooking with World Language students, we look at ways to solve the challenges of cooking in a classroom.

Begin the School Year by answering students’ questions and communicating clear expectations

3 practices that discourage speaking proficiency - and how to avoid them

How you can help students overcome Foreign Language Anxiety to improve their speaking proficiency

Or, why you can’t be on your phone or play computer games during this class!

How I declared war, and made peace with cell phones, social media, and video games in my classroom

4 Activities to Facilitate Collaboration While Encouraging Individual Accountability

Ideas to foster a supportive classroom atmosphere, laying the foundation for collaborative learning and world language speaking proficiency