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Help prepare students for standardized ELA tests wirh escape rooms. This blog post includes four ways to include escape rooms in the secondary ELA classroom. Engage your middle school ELA and high school English students in escape room activities by incorporating them into your instruction as ELA Test Prep, a class novel review activity, a way to introduce lessons, and a back-to-school ice breaker. Middle School Escape Room Activities | High School Escape Rooms | ELA Escape Room

There are three kinds of teacher-decorators: those who were born for Pinterest, those who can’t, and all the ones in between (such as the broke, the tired, and the I-have-no-time-to-decorate). Howe…

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Teaching Secondary ELA: Practices to Stop Immediately and What to do Instead - Teaching is tough. When teaching middle school and high school, teachers are juggling a lot of things at once. Here is a look at harmful teaching practices that we should be stopping immediately and what we can be doing instead to best help our students succeed. Teaching Advice | Teaching Tips | Howe to Improve as a Teacher | Teacer Advice | New Teacher Tips | First Year Teacher | Classroom Management

I’m a strong believer that your environment, whether that be your home or your classroom, can influence your daily energy, imagination, and joy. Because of this, I set out to design my high school classroom decor to reflect the overall goal I want to achieve in my classroom. Since I’m a high school English teacher, I ... Read More about High School Classroom Decor: Semi Flexible Seating in a Secondary ELA Classroom

Before you decorate your high school classroom, there are a few things you should know. Read all about them in this blog post!

Happy August! We got home from our six day road trip last night, and now it’s time for me to buckle down and start thinking about BACK TO SCHOOL. Our first teacher work day is August 17th, so I’m less than two weeks away now… In honor of that, I thought I’d bring back “Teaching Tuesday”...Read More »

Assessing individual student skills at the beginning of the school year is important for teachers to establish a baseline from which to monitor student growth. This is especially important at the secondary level where we have an influx of students from diverse educational backgrounds all c