Mother’s Day Activities
*Affiliate links are included in this blog Mother’s Day Ideas in the Classroom With Mother’s Day around the corner and excited children who fill your classroom ready for the summer…
5 Tips for Developing Positive Rapport
Written by Danielle Rivera, TS cofounder & Educator Rapport. What do you think about when you hear this word? To me, this word is the key to being a successful…
4 Spring STEM Activities You Won’t Want to Miss
Guest Blogger, TheVirtualTeacher Happy SPRING! I am so excited to be a guest blogger on TS this week. I have some great Spring and Easter STEM activities that I’m eager to…
Building Classroom Communities
Written by Josh McCusker – TeacherSherpa Blogger The morning bell rings and you open the door. You’re ready to introduce yourself to the students on the first day of school.…
From English to Spanish in Minutes!
Guest Blogger, Lucy Castellano – 2nd grade Texas teacher I’ve been an elementary teacher for 6 years, and year after year I look for new ideas. I try my best not…
Wonder why some students constantly break the rules? Why not ask them?
Written by Josh McCusker, TeacherSherpa Blogger He bent another rule. Something innocuous. More of a delaying tactic than anything. Standing by the pencil sharpener, taking his time as the rest…
“Why do we even have to take the stupid test?”
Written by Josh McCusker, TeacherSherpa Blogger I’m a parent before anything else, including being a water drinker. You could make the case that if I were dehydrated in a desert…
Kindness in the Classroom: Modeling the Behavior We Want to See From Our Students
Written by Josh McCusker, TeacherSherpa Blogger Billy (not his real name) stood with a smirk. Half the class looked at him, knowing all about his antics from previous years. The…
How Learning With My Students Made All the Difference
Written by Josh McCusker, TeacherSherpa Blogger I graduated school. I completed K-12, then a decade of college. I took all of the core classes and tried most electives, even cooking. Why…
Choosing To Succeed vs. Planning to Fail
Written by Josh McCusker, TeacherSherpa Blogger Do you ever set out planning to fail? Trying something and then deliberately failing at it? Do you try to drop plates, miss shots,…