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13 Manners My Mom Taught Me That Affect Behavior

By: Jon Konen | Nov 19, 2016

My mom, Pat Konen, helped me to understand that manners are essential. Being a classroom teacher for over 30 years (Kindergarten, second grade, fourth grade, and a traveling science teacher) she understood that weaving manners into her instruction supported her classroom management and even more importantly, she understood it was ...
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The Best Teaming Rubric Out There: How Would You Score Your Team?

By: Jon Konen | Nov 19, 2016

What does teaming look like in your school? Making this concrete for teacher teams may be difficult, but let’s put it into a rubric. Defining what good “teaming” looks like as a staff is powerful. Mix these criteria with high expectations from administration and you have the tools for a ...
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Have Times Really Changed?

By: Mary McLaughlin | Nov 4, 2016

Today is a lazy day here in my home. Went to early church, went to the grocery store, went to the local waffle place, went to the dollar store, ran a load of laundry, and then put on my p.j.’s to enjoy the rest of the sunny, warm, breezy, Southern ...
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Promoting Literacy Using Anchor Texts

By: Michelle Areaux | Nov 4, 2016

For most teachers, we spend countless hours planning and creating fun lessons for our students to enjoy. In reality, most of those lessons never see the light of day because we are forced to now design each daily lesson around a standardized test that, honestly, does not measure what our ...
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The Best LIVE PD, EVER: 7 People Who Supported My Elucidation of Education

By: Jon Konen | Nov 4, 2016

It’s funny that in the business world when you steal other company’s ideas, you may see yourself in a lawsuit. In education, we encourage our people to beg, borrow, and steal successful ideas in order to implement them in our own schools. Since I started in education back in the ...
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Top Technology Apps for Teachers and Administrators

By: Kylie Hall | Oct 19, 2016

Technology in the classroom is so commonplace at this point that writing a list about technology in the classroom actually seems cliché. In fact, just starting a piece about technology in the classroom by talking about technology in the classroom is probably cliché. Of course this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t ...
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8 Steps to Start a Power of Praise Program

By: Jon Konen | Oct 15, 2016

Do you spend more time calling parents on a student’s bad behavior or good behavior? If I could give one piece of advice for new teachers, new administrators, or other educators wanting to change the culture of their school or classroom, it would be to start a Power of Praise ...
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5 Components to a Great Weekly Lesson Plan

By: Jon Konen | Oct 7, 2016

What are the five most important components that should be in every lesson plan? Can you make your list with just five components? I think it can be done, even though Madeline Hunter may tell you there are more. In fact, a Madeline Hunter lesson plan includes these seven components¹: Materials/Resources ...
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9 Reasons Culture Trumps Strategy

By: Jon Konen | Oct 7, 2016

Back to the main Bully Prevention Guide. This last summer one of the most profound speakers I have ever heard was Dr. Bill Daggett from the International Center for Leadership in Education. His words of “Culture Trumps Strategy” have given me a resurgence and confidence into education and changed what I have ...
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9 Ideas You Can Use Without Taking Away Recess

By: Jon Konen | Sep 28, 2016

Missing recesses has come under fire recently and rightly so! All the latest brain research in the past decade proclaims increases of academic success are directly related to a student’s physical activity level. Some schools are even going to four recesses per day. In my school most students receive three ...
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