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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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I love each and every one of these books, not only for the beautiful messages embedded throughout, but for their glorious art and thought provoking themes. This year, I plan to read one each week during morning meeting and complete the same four tasks each time, as shown on the anchor chart. ⬇️ 

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