Raise your hand if you’ve spent time planning a lesson, but it flopped when you taught it in front of your student. We’re raising our hands high! It can feel deflating when a lesson doesn’t keep the interest of your students. However, there are things you can do to increase student engagement when presenting a lesson. So, in today’s episode, we’re sharing five techniques that will ignite active student engagement during any lesson.

For all the resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/active-student-engagement

Resources:

• Jargon Journal Year-Long Bundle
• Fluency in a Flash
• Phonics and Word Study - Word Play
• Oregon Trail Game
• Online Stopwatch
• Lord of Maps Draws a Map
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You’ve made it to the end of the day smooth sailing but hit the rough waters of chaos right before your students leave. You’re tired, exhausted, and unsure why there’s turmoil at this every day. If this sounds like you, there’s a disconnect in your daily routine. So, in today’s episode, we’re sharing how to troubleshoot this routine and giving four teacher-approved tips for streamlining your dismissal routine.

For all the resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/dismissal-routine

Resources:

• Classroom Procedures and Routines Planning Guide and Checklist
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As you all know by now, we love having efficient and effective procedures and routines. We believe they’re the backbone of your classroom management and the key to having everything else in your classroom run smoothly. However, there’s one routine we’ve neglected to discuss, which is setting up your centers. The complexity of successfully run centers is why we’ve never discussed them before. In today’s episode, we’re sharing strategies for how to set up centers at the beginning of the year.

For all the resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/how-to-set-up-centers-at-the-beginning-of-the-year

Resources:

• Daily 5 Work on Writing Station
• Daily 5 Work on Writing - Monthly Resources
• Bostitch Office Hole Punch
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One of the biggest struggles as a teacher, especially when you’re new to the profession, is managing your classroom. With so much going into classroom management, the main component being student behaviors, you want to find ways to keep students motivated and exhibit positive behaviors in your classroom. And one of those ways is through class rewards. So, in today’s episode, we’re sharing how to make your back-to-school classroom management system work in your favor and not against you.

For all the resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/back-to-school-classroom-management

Resources:

• December Teacher Planner
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
• Skylight Calendar
• Dr Scholl’s Women’s Sneaker
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Every Thursday this summer, we've been bringing you a weekly bonus episode highlighting new and favorite teacher-approved tips you can apply in your classroom as soon as today. And today is our last Thursday tips episode for the summer!

This week's tips are:

[00:49]: Tip #1 - Ways for teaching class consequences to your students.

[06:22]: Tip #2 - Plans for dealing with and managing classroom behaviors.

To hear more about these tips, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/teaching-class-consequences

Resources:

• Classroom Procedures and Routines Bundle 
• “How to Create Community with Classroom Rules” Responsive Classroom Article
• Episode 155, Mastering the Teacher Look for Nonverbal Classroom Management
• Episode 102, Classroom Behavior Problems: How to Plan Ahead to Handle Them Effectively
• Episode 101, 10 Easy Ways to Prevent Behavior Problems Before They Start
• Episode 92, Teacher Approved Tips: Teaching Recess Games and How to Save Time
• Episode 75, Classroom Procedures and Expectations: How They Differ and How to Teach Them
• Episode 21, Guided Discovery
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If you are anything like we were, one of our main goals at the beginning of the year was to build positive relationships with our students. We know the countless benefits having positive relationships can have on your students and classroom, so we always did the typical getting-to-know-you activities at the start of the year. However, we needed to find ways to keep those relationships growing with more than just those activities all year long. This is when we began to incorporate surprise and delight. So, in today’s episode, we’re sharing our five easy back-to-school surprise-and-delight ideas that you can use in your classroom this school year.

For all the resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/back-to-school-surprise-and-delight

Resources:

• The Happier Ladies Podcast, Episode 37: Romanticize Your Lunch
• AFMAT Electric Pencil Sharpener
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Every Thursday, we're bringing you a weekly bonus episode highlighting new and favorite teacher-approved tips you can apply in your classroom as soon as today. 

This week's tips are:

[00:52]: Tip #1 - How to master the art of the “teacher look.”

[05:04]: Tip #2 - How to have effective classroom management using attention signals.

To hear more about these tips, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/teacher-look

Resources:

• Classroom Procedures & Routines Editable Slides
• Episode 98, 5 Reasons Your Attention Signal Isn’t Working and How to Improve It
• Episode 81, 20 Teacher Approved Back to School Tips from Listeners!
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If you’ve been listening to us long enough, you know how much we love procedures. We’ve covered the importance of establishing them, how to teach them, how to plan them, and how to fix them. However, we’ve never discussed putting all that information together with a few simple steps. So, in today’s episode, we’re sharing how to make classroom procedure planning successful and effective this school year.

For all the resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/classroom-procedure-planning

Resources:

• Classroom Procedures and Routines Planning Guide and Checklist
• Guided Discovery of School Tools Resource Bundle
• Procedure Teaching Slides
• Procedure Review Slides
• Electric Scissors
• Sukeen Cooling Towels
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Every Thursday, we're bringing you a weekly bonus episode highlighting new and favorite teacher-approved tips you can apply in your classroom as soon as today. 

This week's tips are:

[01:16]: Tip #1 - How thriving at back-to-school starts with a clean slate.

[06:00]: Tip #2 - Give yourself the space to live in your season during back-to-school.

To hear more about these tips, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/thriving-at-back-to-school

Resources:

• Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
• Ready for School Checklists
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We’ve talked a lot over the last few weeks about how to effectively plan your first week of school. We like to think of these first few days as a launchpad for a successful school year. With so much you need to think about, we’ve decided to help you create and organize a way to manage it all. In today’s episode, we’re sharing the three lists you need to make to plan your first week of school.

For all the resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.secondstorywindow.net/podcast/plan-your-first-week-of-school

Resources:

• Back to School Readiness Checklists
• First Day of School Planning Guide and Lesson Plan
• First Day of School Pattern Blocks
• First Day of School Lego Mats
• Guided Discovery
• AFMAT Pencil Sharpener
• Headphone Stand
• Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan
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