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Eduprotocols Field Guide: Elementary Edition

Catlin Tucker

Ben has also been featured in The New York Times and has appeared on MSNBC for his work in his kindergarten classroom. She is an original member of Equity in Action CA , which strives to create learning spaces rooted in diversity as well as implement strategies to design welcoming spaces for belonging and inclusion. She has her M.A.

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5 Steps to Gamify Your Elementary Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Heather Marrs shares how to get started with gamifying your classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How could you take your whole elementary classroom year and gamify it? What if everything students learn could gain them XP (experience points?)

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National Poetry Month: Elementary Classroom Activities & Picture Books

Waterford

For elementary school teachers, this month is an opportunity to practice early literacy skills and foster a love for poetry and language. Curious how to teach poetry to early elementary students? Plus, discover how learning about poetry can help young learners strengthen their reading and writing skills.

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Offering Electives to Elementary Students

User Generated Education

Electives are typically chosen based on interests, passions, a need to learn something new, and/or because of future goals. It is not clear to me why elementary students are rarely offered elective courses. I never understood why elementary students aren’t shown the bigger picture of a lesson, unit, or course.

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50 Back to School Activities for Elementary Students

Waterford

However, it’s worth making time for fun student back-to-school activities in your elementary classroom. As an educator, you can use these 50 first day of school games, activities, and printables for elementary students to help your class get to know each other and find things they have in common. This or That? : with your class.

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6 ways to create engaging elementary learning spaces

eSchool News

Our goal is to shift pedagogy toward a “culture of thinking” that supports more student agency and more effective use of the learning space itself. As part of that mission, we knew we needed innovative furnishings for the learning environments, which would go hand-in-hand with that work. Here’s how we did it: 1.

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How to Differentiate Instruction in Elementary Math

The CoolCatTeacher

Understandably, kindergarten and elementary teachers need to reach every student where they are on their learning journey, but it isn't always easy. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. eSpark is free forever for teachers.