If you’re a new teacher or your classroom management system hasn’t been working, here are three simple classroom management systems that will work and two that never did. 

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Are you struggling to find a balance between teacher life and your home life? If you’re like most teachers, your work-life is getting so much love but your home-life might need a little bit of TLC. Now, if you’re like me and struggle with getting balance, start by asking yourself why you became a teacher in the first place? You became a teacher to help your students grow and learn not only academically but also as people. However, we do not set great examples for that. We work, work, and work some more to the point where students think we live at the school! Teachers all over the world let being a teacher become your identity, but you’re more than a teacher! Finding a teacher work-life balance will help you at school and at home.

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Math and literacy centers can be your favorite tool during your small group instruction or they can be the thorn in your side that makes you want to pull your hair out!  In our year-long bundles, we have done the hard work for you to create easy math and literacy centers that ACTUALLY WORK and provide your students with the review and enrichment your students need.

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This week I sat down with Jamie Sears from Not So Wimpy Teacher to share some tips and strategies for taking writing instruction in your classroom from CHAOS to CALM! She shares her WILDLY SIMPLE approach to teaching writing and an opportunity for a FREE TRAINING you can get in on if you act fast!  Check out the shownotes for links: https://farrahhenley.com/episode315 

This year has been tough rockstars...but we are here to celebrate YOU! I have teamed up with Katie and Holly this summer for The Teacher Road Trip and we are here to share all the details!  Sit back, grab your calendar, and then jump over and grab your tickets!  Best of all, the EVENTS and participation are TOTALLY FREE!  Check it out here: https://theteacherroadtrip.com

Follow Katie and Holly on their journey on Instagram: @teacherroadtrip

Shownotes: https://farrahhenley.com/episode314

This week I sat down with former fifth-grade teacher turned first-time kindergarten teacher to talk about how she has successfully implemented small group instruction with math and literacy centers in her kindergarten classroom while teaching first virtually, then HYBRID, and now preparing her students for returning face to face!  She did it using the Easy Centers Framework I teach inside our program Learning Centers Made Easy!

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This week I sit down with third-grade teacher, Alexis Atwood, as she shares how her math classroom, specifically her small group math block, has been transformed with a simple system that she learned in my signature program Learning Centers Made Easy!  

Want more information? Click HERE to join in our FREE TRAINING that is coming soon!

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Centers are only for lower elementary grades, right? Busy work. That’s all centers are! I have heard it all before, and I am here to tell you it’s a pack of lies! There are so many misconceptions about math and literacy centers. So why are these misconceptions heard all the time? Easy, they are believable. In fact, they are so believable that I thought all these misconceptions were true, but not anymore! Today, I’m going to bust the misconceptions and bring centers into all your classrooms!

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When you need to add the cherry on top of a concept, what are you going to do? Go to centers! When you are trying to test prep for the upcoming state testing season, how are you going to review? Go to centers! Centers are one of the most versatile tools that we have in our arsenal. They can be perfect for reviewing new and old concepts. Using centers for enrichment can take your students' mastery to the next level.

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Are you afraid to use centers right now because it’s just not safe? Centers are great for so many things! Review! Test prep! Enriching material! Collaboration! The list really goes on and on. However, there are times when we want students to be on their own to see specifically what that student knows. In order to do that, you need independent center activities for elementary students that will keep them engaged, and, in today’s world, healthy.

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