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How to Help Your Child Find His Study Groove: Setting Up a Distraction-Free Space

How to Help Your Child Find His Study Groove: Setting Up a Distraction-Free Space

Guest post by Susan Good from Retired Educator Kids today have more to fascinate and entertain them than ever before. Gaming and virtual reality technologies provide youngsters (and adults) with endless hours of entertainment and indulgences in fantasy. Television has evolved into a device for streaming an endless array of channels and providing access to media in previously unimaginable ways. Kids communicate in real time...

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Time to Celebrate Teachers With a Teacher Appreciation Giveaway

Time to Celebrate Teachers With a Teacher Appreciation Giveaway

Hooray for Teacher Appreciation Day! To show you how much we appreciate teachers like you, we are having a SPECIAL GIVEAWAY.   Teachers Pay Teachers is having their Teacher Appreciation Sale on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 4th and 5th. Fill up your shopping carts with some of our favorite science and social studies bundles and you can SAVE BIG! Don't forget to use code: THANKYOU21 when you check out to save 25% on everything in my store....

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STARS: A Student Recognition and Reward System That Really Works!

STARS: A Student Recognition and Reward System That Really Works!

One of the most important decisions you will make when setting up your classroom is what type of recognition and reward system you will use. Over the last 15 years, I have tried many different types of reward systems. But the one that I have had incredible success with is called STARS. STARS is a student recognition and reward system. It's easy to implement and cost very little...

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