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Classroom Strategies that Develop Speaking Skills

April 11, 2025 Erin Leave a comment

Explicitly Teach “Being the Speaker” When you teach these skills and practice them, you can even use a rubric to…

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Posted in: Communication Skills, Developmental Growth, Teaching What Matters Most

Boosting Executive Function Skills: Tools, Tips, and Freebies!

July 25, 2024 Erin 6 Comments

🌟 Attention, educators and parents! 🌟 If you’re on a mission to nurture executive function skills in your little learners,…

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Posted in: Beginning of the Year, Developmental Growth, Executive Function Skills, Teaching What Matters Most, whole child

Unlocking Growth: Tools for Developing Motor Skills in the Elementary Classroom

April 28, 2024 Erin 1 Comment

As educators, we play a vital role in nurturing young learners’ physical development. Motor skills—both fine and gross—are essential for…

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Posted in: Classroom Management, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Fine Motor Bins, Teaching What Matters Most, whole child

4 Basic Steps to Inquiry Based Learning

February 12, 2024 Erin Leave a comment

Our students are so curious! Using their natural curiosities to lead your instruction is the first step to planning a…

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Posted in: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Inquiry Based Learning, Teaching What Matters Most, whole child Filed under: classroom pedagogy, IBL, inquiry, student engagement

Active Listening in the Classroom

August 8, 2022 Erin 5 Comments

How many times a day do you think you redirect your students because it seems they are not listening? “Eyes…

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Posted in: Beginning of the Year, Classroom Management, Developmental Growth, Executive Function Skills, Summer Break, Teaching What Matters Most, whole child Filed under: active listening, classroom, communication, listening, listening and speaking, speech and language

Back to School Brain

July 8, 2022 Erin 1 Comment

It’s July 4th! Teachers, parents, and students everywhere are finally in Summer mode and then when they return home from…

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Posted in: Beginning of the Year, Developmental Growth, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Summer Break, Teaching What Matters Most Filed under: back to school, Elementary Administrators, Summer Blog Series, Summer Break, teachers

Developmental Growth

September 1, 2021 Erin 1 Comment

What is Developmental Growth? Developmental growth is the changes that we experience through time as we develop physically, emotionally, and…

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Posted in: Beginning of the Year, Developmental Growth, Teaching What Matters Most, whole child Filed under: developmental skills, elementary, learning, Slow Down! Children Are Learning!, teaching

Morning Routines

June 28, 2021 Erin 7 Comments

There is value in a morning routine! What is your morning routine? Do you have one? Are you the kind…

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Posted in: Developmental Growth, Executive Function Skills, Teaching What Matters Most, Uncategorized Filed under: achievement, habits, making your bed, Morning Routine, power of habits, productivity, routines

Play Dough Every Day!

April 26, 2021 Erin 2 Comments

Teachers and parents of young children need to know this!!!! Your student’s motor skills are still developing. Whether they seem…

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Posted in: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Fine Motor Bins, Teaching What Matters Most, whole child

How to use The 5 Love Languages in your Classroom.

February 15, 2021 Erin Leave a comment

Do you teach your students about LOVE? February is funny time in classrooms. So often students get embarrassed when we…

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Posted in: family, Teaching What Matters Most, whole child Filed under: conversation hearts, love, Love Languages, valentines at school

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