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    4 Tips to Survive Teaching as an Introvert
    Shea LaFountaine
    • 5 days ago
    • 7 min

    4 Tips to Survive Teaching as an Introvert

    Advice to help introverted teachers avoid feeling like they need to curl up in a hole and hide at the end of each school day. I consider...
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    6 Lifesaving Tips for Managing Behavior in The Classroom
    Shea LaFountaine
    • 5 days ago
    • 15 min

    6 Lifesaving Tips for Managing Behavior in The Classroom

    When I first started teaching, my behavior management was truly horrific. It actually physically pains me now to think about how chaotic...
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    5 Tips For teaching Math Word Problems
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 29
    • 9 min

    5 Tips For teaching Math Word Problems

    Teaching math word problems is, well, a problem. Why? The issue here is that you aren’t teaching students to do a certain thing, you’re...
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    10 Easy Science Experiments Using Materials Found In Most Kitchens
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 29
    • 6 min

    10 Easy Science Experiments Using Materials Found In Most Kitchens

    Teachers don't make a ton of money, that's no secret, so shelling out big bucks for science materials isn't really an option. I mean...
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    6 Ways To Learn With Sidewalk Chalk
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 28
    • 4 min

    6 Ways To Learn With Sidewalk Chalk

    I've spent countless hours this summer watching my son, Adrian, play with sidewalk chalk. He's obsessed! If there's one thing I've...
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    Get Organized! Tips For Setting Up a Functional Classroom
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 26
    • 11 min

    Get Organized! Tips For Setting Up a Functional Classroom

    This past August my district was blessed with almost two straight weeks of teacher work days before the first day of school. My calling...
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    4 Easy Ways to Make Any Math a Game
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 24
    • 7 min

    4 Easy Ways to Make Any Math a Game

    It’s no secret that math is the most feared subject of most students. It can be confusing and incredibly boring. At least, I always...
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    Get Up! Incorporating Movement In Your Classroom
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 23
    • 11 min

    Get Up! Incorporating Movement In Your Classroom

    If you could walk into a classroom from 50 years ago, I imagine it would look something like this: Wooden desks are aligned in tidy rows....
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    4 Ways to Make Instruction Meaningful and Banish The "I Don't Care" Attitude In Your Classroom
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 13
    • 10 min

    4 Ways to Make Instruction Meaningful and Banish The "I Don't Care" Attitude In Your Classroom

    Picture that guy you know with very little general knowledge. Everyone knows one. He keeps you absolutely baffled. How is it possible...
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    Let's Talk About the Coke Ad
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 12
    • 4 min

    Let's Talk About the Coke Ad

    I cannot ignore my deeply seeded concern for this latest of social phenomenons. When the teacher’s lounge conversation turned to the...
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    Why Common Core Math Is Not The Actual Devil
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 12
    • 6 min

    Why Common Core Math Is Not The Actual Devil

    You don’t even have to be part of the education world to know what people think about common core math. It’s like suddenly everyone is an...
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    7 Secrets For surviving Your First Year Of Teaching
    Shea LaFountaine
    • May 12
    • 8 min

    7 Secrets For surviving Your First Year Of Teaching

    Here's the thing about teaching, it's not so much a job as it is a craft that you have to hone and perfect over many years. For most...
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