Classroom Management - Build Classroom Community - Back to School

Our approach to classroom management is building a positive classroom community. This bundle contains our top classroom management strategies. It provides valuable tools to help transform your classroom into a positive, productive environment. This bundle promises to help EVERY teacher, first year or experienced.   

As 3 veteran educators, we've reflected on our own successes and failures in classroom management over the years, identified our most effective strategies, and compiled them to share with you! 

This bundle contains:
Brain Breaks- These whole-class activities give students opportunities to pause, move, and take a break in structured ways.

Transitions- These songs and rhymes will help you smoothly shift students from one activity to another and will save valuable instructional time. 

Attention Getters- Create a structured and energetic way to get students’ attention. These attention getters start with an action initiated by the teacher that is followed by a reaction from the students.

Compliment Cards- Use Compliment Cards to spread kindness, encouragement, and positivity throughout your classroom.

Team Building Activities- These engaging activities help students learn to work together, listen carefully, practice perseverance, and communicate. 

Discussion Strategies- Use these structured protocols to practice speaking and listening skills and to teach students to work together. 

Diversity and Inclusion Discussion Cards-  Use these prompts to have conversations about honoring differences. 

Grouping Cards- Quickly and creatively group your students. 

in 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s or more. 

Shout-Outs-  These class cheers celebrate your students’ positive behavior and academic achievements. The teacher can give a Shout-out to a student or entire class and students can give Shout-outs to each other. 

Morning Greeting Signs- Greet your students in the morning tol set a positive tone for the entire day. Post these morning greeting choices on your classroom door to warmly welcome students. 

Greeting, Sharing, and activity cards for Morning Meeting- These Morning Meeting cards make planning a breeze! Print, grab, and go. 

Students Led Morning Meeting- You will be AMAZED at what your young students are capable of. This resource scaffolds the entire process and provides everything you need to start STUDENT Led Morning Meetings. 

Student Data Tracker-  Students take ownership of their learning by setting goals and tracking their own progress in a data folder or portfolio. Students can use their data to discuss their progress in parent conferences.  

Exit Tickets- These tickets are super creative and offer a huge variety of ways for students to reflect on and demonstrate their understanding of a concept or learning target. Plus, we've included a FREE bonus file with Exit Ticket Bin Labels.

Formative Assessment Strategies- These are quick engagement strategies to use during and after lessons. They are great for offering more students an opportunity to respond and to check for students’ understanding of lesson concepts.

Behavior Buddies- Introduce desired behaviors with behavior buddies. Each buddy has a fun read-aloud story, activity, puppet, and writing prompt. Behavior buddies help teach lessons that you can refer to all year. Kids will strive to be a "listening llama" or a "respectful rooster."

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