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Promoting Good Classroom Citizenship

Blog, Character Development, Classroom Culture, Educator Insights, Spiritual Formation, Teaching Strategies | March 15, 2023

“Make the right choice” is a phrase that you would hear often if you walk by my classroom and listen in. I have always felt a responsibility to encourage students to be the best version of themselves in the 180 days that they are with me. Like most teachers, I do not...

Resilience

About Us, Blog, Character Development, Networking/Collaboration, Teaching Strategies | January 26, 2023

Examining the past enables improvement. Considering the future sparks motivation. These are the building blocks of strategy for the present. “I haven’t really started yet. I mean, I have done some research, but I haven’t started writing anything.” Most teachers would...

Making Time for Curriculum Mapping

Blog, Curriculum Mapping, Curriculum Trak, Efficiency, Teaching Strategies | January 24, 2023

Making time for curriculum mapping is a challenge at almost every private Christian school. In recent years, with short staffing and teacher shortage, so much of a school’s leadership’s time is spent on the everyday operation of the school, that it’s difficult to find...

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Announcements, Blog, Curriculum Development, Decision-Making, Educator Insights, Teaching Strategies, Why Mapping? | December 16, 2022

Decisions have consequences. Educators live and die by this maxim. While there might be some inconsequential decisions (i.e. – what side of your toast do you butter), most of the decisions we make (even as minute as decaf or regular), have the potential to change the...

Classroom Management in a Post-Pandemic World

Blog, Classroom Culture, Educator Insights, Effectiveness, Pedagogy, Social-Emotional, Teaching Strategies | December 13, 2022

In Quantitative Analysis, they teach you to stick with one independent variable to assure validity and reliability in your results. In real life, change often occurs due to a confluence of variables. Not only is today’s student population unlike that of previous...

Risks in the Classroom: No Use Crying Over Spoiled Milk

Blog, Educator Insights, Encouragement, Teaching Strategies, Tips & Tricks | December 6, 2022

Most days, I am a savory-style breakfast person. When I get a hankering for a good breakfast cereal, I typically find myself drawn to relatively bland varieties in that department: Special K, plain Cheerios, Rice Krispies… you know the kinds. But every once in a...