Category: Teachers
How To Be a Classroom Champion
We all need someone to lean on, and teachers are no exception. If you are frustrated that teachers are struggling to teach because of a lack of supplies, you can do something about it. Become a Classroom Champion! Classroom Champions are often the key to a classroom adoption. When you help raise awareness about a […]
Teacher Tip: Recruit a Classroom Champion to Help with Fundraising Needs
Fundraising! It’s why you got into teaching in the first place, right? Not so much. However, you know that a lot of your students don’t have access to the supplies they need for a variety of reasons. Fundraising has just become part of the job for many teachers. AdoptAClassroom.org helps you connect your classroom to […]
How to have the coolest classroom in school
The new school year is right around the corner. We hear that teachers are already busy decorating their classrooms for the year ahead.
Classroom Success Story: School Garden Grows Important Lessons for Students
What do you do with a low-income school, a few donated garden boxes, and no funding for plants or supplies? To this question, teachers Debbie Rutledge-Lockyear and Janet White’s response was confident. You make it work. When they received the garden boxes, the teachers began dreaming of creating a community garden where they could give their […]
In Queens, Ms. Hemans’ Young Men Need Pencils to Thrive
Vivett Hemans is an 8th grade language arts teacher at Eagle Academy for Young Men of Southeast Queens in Jamaica, NY. “There is one Eagle Academy in each of the five boroughs as well as one in Newark, New Jersey,” said Ms. Hemans. “They have been strategically placed in neighborhoods that have been identified as school-to-prison […]
5 Reasons you miss your students over the summer
As much as you joke about kids driving you crazy, and as much as you fantasize about a summer outside the classroom, let’s be real. About a week into summer, this happens:
Fashion Project could add an extra dimension to your fundraising efforts
It’s that time of year again: you pass out report cards, say your goodbyes to the students, and usher in a summer of rest and relaxation… Not quite.
The Innovative Teacher: Summer (Not-Quite-A) Vacation
We’re excited to roll out a new feature on our blog: The Innovative Teacher. We are constantly in awe of the great ideas and sharing nature of teachers on social media, and wanted a space to pull together some of those great thoughts. For the first installment, we asked you how you spent your summers—and […]
Sleeping past 6 a.m. (and 4 other end-of-the-year excitements)
Sometimes we pretend that the end of the school year is only exciting for students. But let’s just acknowledge that it’s exciting for teachers too. Here’s five moments we hope you experience as this school year comes to a close: 5. The exhausted excitement When you’re geeking out over sleeping until eight a.m. 4. The […]