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Teaching Through March Chaos: Planning for the Disruptions You Know Are Coming
How teachers can plan for surprise disruptions before they occur.
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Teaching for the Test Without Selling Out Your Classroom
The problem with panic-driven test prep isn't just that it's unpleasant. It's that it doesn't work. Here are some things that will work for teachers.
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How to Keep Students Engaged Before Spring Break
Learn how teachers can make the most of the time leading up to Spring Break.
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The February Crisis: Finding Evidence That Teaching Still Matters
These aren't signs of weakness. They're signs of February.
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Mid-Year Routine Reset: Fix February Fade Without Starting Over
Here's what most teachers get wrong about mid-year routine breakdown: They assume students are choosing to be sloppy. That they're testing boundaries or being deliberately difficult.
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Building Classroom Community in February: Two-Minute Connections
Your classroom feels transactional. You give directions, they follow them (or don't). You assign work, they complete it (or don't). Everyone is just going through the motions until the bell rings. What do you do?
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Creating Engagement in February: The Micro-Milestone Method
You look at the calendar. Spring break is 6 weeks away. That might as well be 6 years. There’s nothing to work toward. No holidays. No breaks. No "classroom community" energy.
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February Behavior Management: Understanding Dysregulation vs. Defiance
You’re standing there trying to decide—do you address this as a behavior problem or something else? And you’re exhausted, and February has already been hard, and you just need the class to function for the next 37 minutes.
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Teacher Energy, The Budget Approach
And here’s what most teacher wellness advice gets wrong: It treats energy like it’s unlimited. Like, if you just had better time management or a better morning routine or a more positive mindset, you’d have enough energy for everything.
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New Year Goal Setting for Students: Teaching Kaizen Instead of Resolutions
There’s a better way to teach goal-setting. And it starts with rejecting resolutions entirely.
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Teacher Burnout Prevention: How to Manage Your Energy (Not Just Your Time)
Here’s the truth: Teaching is an inherently energy-depleting profession. You spend six to eight hours a day regulating other people’s emotions, making hundreds of micro-decisions, performing cognitive and physical labor simultaneously, and operating in a state of constant vigilance.
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Building The STRONG Year in Public: February Module Nearly Done
Here's another STRONG Teacher update. February is almost complete in The STRONG Year.