8th grade classroom

Welcome your 8th graders back to school with these ideas! Classroom decorations and get-to-know-know you ideas can help set the tone for the year and give them a glimpse of what they’ll learn this year. I’ve gathered some of my favorite resources for the first day and the beginning of the year f

Are you looking for ways to increase classroom community in your 8th grade class? Here are three strategies that have worked really well for my students.

How to manage student absences for middle school without any of the stress!

Fantastic ideas for setting up a middle school classroom. Ideas are easy to implement and to keep going all year long from 2 Peas and a Dog.

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). However, making a classroom appeal to middle and high school students doesn’t HAVE to involve serious crafting or expensive, time-intensive projects. Check out these tips from me and Bonnie from Presto Plans as you prepare your classroom for the fall (or at any time of year that you want to give it a…

Marie Kondo Your Classroom – Kellie Bourque

Agenda board

Ideas for elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

Create a classroom "fridge" where students can hang papers on the wall.

virtual classroom

Managing Make-up Work in the Middle School Classroom If there is one thing that we can count on as educators, it is that not every student will be in your classroom, every day, for the entire year. So, how do you manage the work students miss while they were gone? Have you ever had a student come to you and ask, "Did I miss anything when I was gone?" Or, even worse... "Did I miss anything important when I was gone?" These are my LEAST favorite student questions! However, I love that my…