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This blog post is PACKED with practical advice for new teachers, straight from experienced upper elementary teachers who have been exactly where you are.

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Practical Advice for New Teachers, Straight From Our Community

Here are my favorite smart classroom purchases that maximize the impact of every cent you have to spend as a teacher.

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8 Types of Smart Classroom Purchases

This Teaching With a Mountain View Resource guide is your shortcut to finding exactly what you need for your students separated by topic and season for easy navigation.

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Teaching With a Mountain VieW Resource Guide

Read our first year teacher tips and learn everything we WISH we had known! We'll cover classroom management, lesson planning, parent communication, and more.

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The Best First Year Teacher Tips

Whether you’re preparing for a scheduled observation or want to ace an unannounced walkthrough, this list of classroom observation tips will help!

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Classroom Observation Tips

These tips will help you minimize missing assignments and develop a time-saving system for organizing student work in upper elementary.

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Tips for Organizing Student Work

Use this bundle to prepare upper elementary emergency sub plans. Also includes practical tips to help you prepare for a guest teacher.

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Emergency Sub Plans and Guest Teacher Tips

The best teacher hacks, classroom organization tips, classroom systems, and classroom management strategies from upper elementary teachers.

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The Ultimate List of Teacher Hacks

Learn how to organize student supplies on the first day of school and keep them organized all year long too.

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How To Organize Student Supplies

Upper elementary classroom management tips. Put these essential routines in place NOW for success all year.

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Classroom Management Tips: Essential Daily Routines

If you are scratching your head wondering how you can best utilize your classroom parent volunteers, here is your guide!

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How to BEST Utilize Your Classroom Parent Volunteers

Tips for organizing your upper elementary literacy block. Includes daily routines, whole group lessons, and literacy rotations.

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How I Organize My Literacy Block

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It’s almost time for one of my favorite Valentin It’s almost time for one of my favorite Valentine’s Day classroom traditions — Compliment Bags for all of their cards and goodies! 🩷💕 Here’s why I love this so much 👇👇

Truth: I have never been a huge fan of having students bring in their own decorated bags and boxes because inevitably, some are the most elaborate creations you’ve ever seen, while others forget them completely. 😬😬 So, I started using this idea in 2009 after learning about it from my cooperating teacher, and it NEVER gets old. 

✍️ I incorporate it into my writing block in the few days before Valentine’s Day so that students can use excellent vocab and write beautiful sentences to one another then transfer them to the bags on Valentine’s Day!

💖 Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the details about how I implement this into my classroom, including how I get students to write genuine, specific compliments and which bags I use!

I have been sharing this on my blog and socials since 2011, and every single year, I look forward to seeing all the compliment bags YOUR students make. It truly brings me so much joy!
It’s a big weekend for football lovers!! 🏈 I It’s a big weekend for football lovers!! 🏈 I love using this quick math challenge in the few days before and after the biggest game of the year (even if my team isn’t playing this year 😭😜). Comment below, and I’ll send you this no-prep resource to bring the game into your classroom!
Listen, it’s in my genes, and I’ve just come t Listen, it’s in my genes, and I’ve just come to accept it. 🤷‍♀️
The games are finally coming this week, and I can’t WAIT to start incorporating them into my classroom!! 👏 We just wrapped up ELEVEN new podcasts (over 60 minutes of content) for the classroom focusing on winter sports, and I can’t wait to get started! These are always SUCH a huge hit with my students. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the info for ALL of my Winter Games plans over the next few weeks!
Take a look at the current state of my classroom a Take a look at the current state of my classroom absolutely COVERED in books and tell me…What is YOUR favorite book in your classroom right now? 👇

🌟 Last week, I looked around my room and took a moment to appreciate all the beautiful books we’ve read over the past few weeks or plan to read soon. I use these books during morning meeting, for literacy lessons, to focus in on personal growth goals my students have, etc. By putting them up around the room, I generate interest in the stories, remind students of the important lessons learned in certain books we’ve read, and expose students to many different ideas about life, the world, and the nature of humans. They are TRULY one of the single greatest tools I have as a teacher. 🩷💕
I teach high achieving, gifted identified students I teach high achieving, gifted identified students, and if they end their time with me understanding just one thing, I want it to be this. 💕🩷 

This poster is adapted from my lesson on perfectionism with the book Ish by Peter Reynolds and accompanied by other excellent books for overcoming this challenge. Comment below for the book companion, or save the anchor chart to create with your students.
Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift t Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift tags (lots of options!) and a link to these cuties. 🩷💕 #studentgifts #valentines
🤣🤣 This week I handed my students a paper cl 🤣🤣 This week I handed my students a paper clip to put a few strips of paper together and totally forgot that’s a skill I need to teach. What other random little things like this do you find yourself teaching students?
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