What Do You Expect?
Your expectations for students can become self-fulfilling prophecies for success or failure. Here´s how to teach to the possibilities within every child.
By Ann Gazin
 
Opening Soon!
What´s behind the magic curtain? Tantalize and engage your students with a "revelatory" technique that promotes ownership and safety.
By Lynn Bechtel
 
Building Bridges: From School to Home
By keeping the child at the center of their relationship, parents and teachers can be one another´s best allies.
By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
 
Running Records Every Day
Easy, time-saving strategies to fit all-important running records into your daily routine.
By Connie R. Hebert, Ed.D.

Physics on the Playground
Hands-on activities that invite students to take a closer look at the swingset and seesaw science behind the fun.
By Nancy Finton
 
Families Count
Teach or reinforce essential math skills with these getting-to-know-you activities that celebrate all kinds of families.
By Katherine Burkett
 
CyberHunt: Deep-Sea Monsters
Journey with students to the darkest ocean depths with these interactive activities.
By Karyn M. Peterson
 
Motivational Mini-Posters
New! Inspirational classroom signs to clip and laminate show your students that you expect the very best from them.
 
"Reading the Room" With Pointers
Make the most of your print-rich classroom with playful pointters that motivate students to practice important literacy skills.
By Connie Leueneberger
 
The First Day!
These back-to-school icebreakers are sure to get students excited about meeting new friends, building community, and celebrating a brand new year.
By Pamela Chanko
 
Poetry Workshop
Get your writing projects off the ground with Ann Whitford Paul´s kid-motivating, construction-inspired poem, "Word Builder." Includes a poetry reproducible!
By Liza Charlesworth
 
Math Shapes Up!
Develop essential geometry skills with these standards-based, fun activities. Includes two reproducible pages for students.
By Cathy Massett & Rachel Scott
 
From Our Readers
Teachers share their best activities for starting off the first week of school.

Web Sitings: Helpful Homepages
Try these purposeful, user-friendly sites to help kids navigate the net with ease.
By Hannah Trierweiler
 
Education News and Trends
Quidditch in the gym, Chicago´s PURE program, Honda´s ASIMO robot,  Japanese internment camp project, celebrities remember their teachers, and much, much more!
Reported by Jennifer Prescott
 
New & Noteworthy
The best new classroom products and resources for heading back to school.
 
Teacher Talk
In our newest regular column, our readers share their top tips on preparing their classrooms for the first day of school
Plus: 5 ways to unwind before the first day.
 
Can You Help?
Child psychology expert Dr. Adele Brodkin and three teachers share strategies and tips on helping a student with separation anxiety.
 
Booktalk: 30 New Classics
Top titles for back-to-school — all perfect stories to set the stage
for a reading-filled year.
By Judy Freeman

End of the Day: My New Arrivals
One veteran fourth-grade teacher talks about the profound "imprint" that his new students have on him, year after year.
By Paul Tamburello