Classroom Spring Cleaning

Will you soon be starting to clear out your classroom for the summer?  Spring is the season for cleaning and simplifying. As you cleaning and pack up your classroom for the summer, consider simplifying for next year when you set up your room. 

Professional organizers encourage anyone doing a big clean-up to ask themselves a few critical questions as they sort through their stuff.  There are many variations on the questions, but these four can be used as a guide:

1.  Do I use it often?

2.  Do I love it and the energy it gives me?

3.  How easily could I replace it?

4.  What is the worst thing that will happen if I don't have this?

Borrowed from Brenda Power

Editor, Choice Literacy

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Middle/High School Teachers Check This Out

Cris Tovani Podcast!    http://www.choiceliteracy.com/public/1486.cfm  Some great ideas about how she runs her block through a workshop model.  Please take the time to listen! 

TC Students Have Entered the "Blog World"

Take some time to check out the amazing blogging coming from our students!  They have some very profound things to say! 

Just a thought....

"Readers must analyze and think, producing their own understanding, not simply remember information provided by teacher or textbook."   --Robert E. Probst, 1994,  English Journal

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