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August 12, 2014 by Ashleigh | 2 Comments

Tomorrow is open house for me, which means it has been crunch time in getting my classroom ready to go. It shouldn't have been that difficult, because I decided to keep the same look from last year. I still really liked the bright colors, and to be quite honest, I didn't feel

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Teaching Math Workshop Procedures

Teaching Math Workshop Procedures

August 6, 2014 by Ashleigh | 1 Comment

For your math workshop or guided math class to run smoothly, it is essential to explicitly teach your students the procedures you will use within your math instruction. However, before you begin teaching content area procedures, I recommend teaching general classroom procedures

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Planning For The Year

June 18, 2014 by Ashleigh | 11 Comments

One of the questions I'm most frequently asked is about planning for the school year. That's a big question without a quick or easy answer. It depends on the situation you're in at the moment. Planning For New Teachers Don't rush out and try to do all the things. It's not

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Organizing Math Manipulatives

Organizing Math Manipulatives

March 9, 2014 by Ashleigh | 2 Comments

I've always tried to use my time with my students as efficiently as possible. Any random moment of down time is usually when I see student misbehavior, and I feel like I'm losing out on valuable instruction time. I'm always looking for ways to streamline procedures to keep my day

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Math Work Stations

March 6, 2014 by Ashleigh | 1 Comment

Several years ago, I would have considered myself to be an anti-centers teacher.  I liked the idea of them, but I could not make them work in my classroom.  I tried really hard my first couple of years teaching, but they added so much work for me, and I wasn't confident that my

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Implementing and Organizing RTI

September 27, 2013 by Ashleigh | 6 Comments

In my school, classroom teachers are responsible for RTI interventions and progress monitoring for their Tier 2 students, and we have a couple different programs that we use for reading. However, for math we pretty much have to come up with our own resources. I've found resources

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Teaching After Testing

April 14, 2013 by Ashleigh | 2 Comments

By the time we finish testing, I've taught all, or most, of the standards, so I have a little more flexibility than normal. I certainly don't want student learning to stop, but it keeping our momentum can be a challenge. As the school year winds down, it's beneficial to both

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How to Organize Math Centers

January 24, 2012 by Ashleigh | 16 Comments

In this post I've shared how to organize math centers to help you save time and keep organized. Centers can be a great addition to the classroom, but it's not always easy to organize your center activities. And then once they're organized, it can be a challenge to KEEP them that

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Classroom Management Strategies

Classroom Management Strategies

August 3, 2011 by Ashleigh | 4 Comments

Classroom management strategies has to be one of the most important, and often challenging, parts of teaching. I substituted while I was in college, so I quickly learned that if I wanted to survive as a teacher, I needed to learn how to manage a classroom. My first group was by

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