School wide activities

Engaging Team-Building Activities for the High School Classroom - Engage your students in a fun, new routine: Team-Building Tuesday! Bring your class together and create a positive classroom culture by sharing these activities with your students. I use these team-building activities in my high school journalism and yearbook classes. Classroom Activities | Team Building Activities | Team Building for Teens | Yearbook Activities | Journalism Activities

If your school wants a school wide PBIS incentive, here are some ideas for what to do! Reward students with this easy, fun, and cheap incentive.

Inside: Learn how easy it can be to improve wellbeing and community. Two amazing teachers help you succeed by sharing their kindness club ideas for elementary school. Free kindness club checklist included too!Be inspired to start a kindness club to create an inclusive school community!It's heart-warming to see so many teachers embracing kindness and having

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Collaborative projects! Collaborative projects are one of my favorite things. I love them at the start of the year and the end. I love doing them with the whole school or just a grade level. I love using songs, themes, artist-inspiration...you name it. I just love collaboratives! We've done a TON over the years and I thought I'd put them all together in one big ole blog post. So, here you go: my 20 Favorite Collabortive Projects. Be sure and click on the links, many of these have how-to…

The beginning of a new school year is exciting but can also be a little bit nerve-racking for children and teachers alike! The first days need to fulfil several objectives including allowing everybody to settle in, to begin to re-connect/make new connections and to be filled with enthusiasm for the year ahead. Whole school or class projects are a great way to start the year with a bang, so here are 16 ideas to inspire and make everybody feel part of the team.

Explore 34 exciting school club options that help students branch out, make friends, and develop essential social skills. From art and drama to science and coding clubs, discover a wide range of activities for every interest and personality. Each club boosts confidence, creativity, and teamwork, transforming the student experience

Use the book "Only One You". This would be really cool as a school-wide project!

It began with one nicety, one kindness, one random act.

Classroom community building activities and free ideas and lesson plans to kick off the school year or implement at any time.

Use these 101 after school club ideas for kids to help you form your own club. School clubs are a great way to help kids develop a number of skills such as social, problem solving, and critical thinking. Whether you are looking to start a math club, science, club, theatrical club, or even a sports based club this is

Plan fun and amazing activities before and after school. Letting them join clubs can help them set their goals. Check out this list if great club ideas.

A lot of my buildings really build on the concept of community with students and how much it means to be a valuable part of, and contribute to, a healthy community. One of the ways that I contribute to that idea with my students is by doing school wide themes or units. Unfortunately, the themes are just my own across K-6 and don't match with core classes (YET!) but, I still believe it makes my students feel a little more connected with each other. Once I did the theme idea a few times I…

If you read forums for teachers, job satisfaction surveys, or listen to conversation in the teachers’ lounge you will often hear a common theme in the complaints of teachers. Teachers who are unhappy feel unappreciated and unrecognized for their hard work. Although a raise would put a smile on teachers everywhere, this may not be possible with the current state of economics. Have you read Malcom Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point? One of the examples he gives in his book is the NYC subway…

An engaging back-to-school writing activity. Use Skittles to help students brainstorm things to introduce themselves during back-to-school.

Classroom team-building games are a must at the start of a new school year! Here are 16 of my favorite icebreakers and classroom team-building activities!