One of the best ways to get a lesson off to a solid start is by activating your students’ schema. Okay, let’s just pause right there…schema? Seriously? Yeah, that was my first reaction to hearing that word, too. But it’s just a fancy term for an old concept. You probably know it best as “prior

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A few years ago I started selling healthy snacks to my students. Invention is the mother of necessity, as they say, and that’s how our Snack Shack got started. You see, we have over 800 students in our K-4 building. It takes a long time to feed that many students their lunch. As the oldest

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Growing dendrites?! It sounds like a bad science experiment, doesn’t it? It’s not. (Although I think my kiddos would give it a try!) Dendrites are the secret to helping your students learn. They are the connections in our brains that enable us to remember information. I’ll give you an example. Ever ask your students to

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