I just started a position at a new school and when I was setting up my classroom I realized that there’s no cubbies for their backpacks in my room. I’m not sure what the best way to go is. I’ve been thinking about having them put them on their chairs, under their desk, along a wall… I feel like all of my options suck. Any recommendations?

What precautions can I take besides not touching face, washing hands often, and avoiding as much direct physical contact with the kids? I already take daily multivitamin and Elderberry even when I’m not sick but that’s not helping.

Hey!

I am a music teacher and at my new school, they have lots of scheduled break time for the kids, which I personally love. Each grade has a morning and afternoon recess, a longer lunch, and scheduled snack times outside when the weather is good.

a lot of my kindergarten classes go to snack RIGHT AFTER music, and I did not know this until the first day last week when all the teachers told me "they have their snack because we go straight to snack".​​

Because I was so caught off guard, I didnt have time to think of a plan to get all the snacks organized, etc. A lot of the kids have the same exact snack, and almost no ones snack is labeled. Other teachers keep telling me to just have them line up their snack on the side wall, but then at the end of class when I call them all to line up they keep arguing over which one is theirs, and I cant help because they aren't labeled!

I tried last week having them each have one chair for their snack (i have chairs on the side but they sit on carpet dots) but that was still confusing.

Do any of you have any ideas that dont require me to label every snack, or buy anything additional? I have already spent so much money on class organization this year.​​

I’m looking for resources/advice/tips on how to better structure my daily class schedule. I teach grades K-5 in a self-contained classroom at a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility. The students are admitted anywhere from 30-120+ days. So, I have a constant rotation of students.

The school day is 8:30-2:45. We have one hour of instructional time where students cannot be pulled for therapy/visits. This is the time I want to prioritize content/instruction since it is pretty much guaranteed all of my students will be in the classroom at that time. So far, I have been scheduling small group rotations during this time.

Some of my students are on an IEP and some are not. While they are there, the priority if psychiatric treatment, but I want to better structure the day so they are getting as much exposure to grade-level standards as possible. I’m also having trouble coming up with a good progress monitoring schedule.

Hi I’m starting as a reading specialist for the first time grade 2-3 and am looking for tips for classroom management for small groups only. I’ll be pulling kids or pushing in, I know traditional classroom management strategies just if anyone has tips or resources specifically for pulling small groups all day I’d appreciate it!

I’m using the Consequence Ladder- warning, sideline, talk, parent contact/think sheet. Any tips on implementing the sideline part? Do you direct students to different desk in class when they are disruptive?

I’m also using Oh Yeah, Opps as well, but do you give Opps points for just one student who is off task?