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A holiday gift for you
December 17, 2024
Our Brookes family wishes you a peaceful holiday season. To help you find joy throughout the new year, we’ve created a special gift for you: a free printable calendar full…
EXCERPT: Try This “Worry Bug” Activity to Help Students with Anxiety
December 13, 2024
Anxiety can be a major obstacle to school success for students. Here’s a creative activity you might want to try with your students in the new year to help them…
10 Joyful Activities that Boost Young Children’s Development
December 11, 2024
We could all use a little more joy in our lives—and the activities in today’s post will help you infuse more fun and positivity into your routines with young children.…
5 Reading Activities to Improve Your Students’ Fluency
December 5, 2024
Reading fluency is a vitally important element of reading success. As a teacher, you can help build students’ fluency with repeated reading activities—a great way for struggling readers to log…
8 Ways to Boost Social-Emotional Skills in an Inclusive Classroom
December 3, 2024
Inclusive classrooms should focus not only on nurturing students’ academic skills, but also on promoting the social-emotional skills all learners will need to make friends, work well with others, and…
ASQ:SE-2: Your Key to Meeting New Guidelines for Social-Emotional Screening
November 28, 2024
Over the summer, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule on Supporting the Head Start Workforce and Consistent Quality Programming. (Read a summary here.) The new requirements…
10 Principles for Teaching Phonological Awareness
November 26, 2024
Phonological awareness is an essential skill that lays a foundation for success in reading. Excerpted and adapted from the third edition of Speech to Print by Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D., this post offers…
6 Qualities of Meaningful Mealtimes for Young Children
November 21, 2024
Mealtimes in early learning settings are about more than just eating. They present rich opportunities for connection, learning, and positive food experiences. The new guidebook Meaningful Mealtimes shows early childhood…
15 Ways to Provide “Silent Supports” to Students
November 19, 2024
Today’s post was excerpted and adapted from the second edition of The Paraprofessional’s Handbook for Effective Support in Inclusive Classrooms, by inclusion experts Julie Causton & Kate MacLeod. Receiving support in the…
6 Questions with Joan Sedita, Author of The Writing Rope
November 14, 2024
Strong writing skills are an essential component of student literacy achievement. Today we’re excited to feature a Q&A on writing instruction with Joan Sedita, author of the instant bestseller The Writing Rope. She’s…