Cult of Pedagogy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Listen to my interview with Claire English ( transcript ) Sponsored by Alpaca and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? The year started off beautifully: You had your routines in place, made your expectations clear, and for a while, your students were behaving just fine.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. We want to make sure that we are serving our students to the best of our abilities and, thereby, creating inclusive, engaging, and meaningful learning experiences. As part of this journey, we might consider incorporating high impact practices in our classrooms.

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Teacher Mood

DECEMBER 8, 2024

As elementary teachers, one of our key challenges is helping students become proficient readers. Reading fluency is essential for comprehension, yet it often remains a hurdle for many students. Today, I want to share an effective strategy to address this: incorporating repeated reading into our instructional routines, with a focus on the engaging and effective activity of decodable sentence pyramids.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. We want to make sure that we are serving our students to the best of our abilities and, thereby, creating inclusive, engaging, and meaningful learning experiences. As part of this journey, we might consider incorporating high impact practices in our classrooms.

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Cassie Stephens

DECEMBER 8, 2024

I know what it's like this time of year.constant interruptions for programs, field trips, classroom parties and the like. It's nearly impossible to keep the kids engaged let alone.keep them on track or start new projects. I found that THIS drawing activity was perfect for my early finishers and for some Winter Centers that keep all kids happy and creating.

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Hey, Mike Alpert!

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Hi friends, Happy December and welcome to another monthly installment of For Your Staff. Each month, we include a short video featuring a full-time classroom teacher discussing some of their best strategies. Use them in your staff meeting, as content for your PLCs, or with individual teachers. Even though paid subscribers have access to all of this content already through our membership site, we’ll continue to send out a monthly email highlighting one of the videos and the featured teacher

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