We know that offering choice to students is a powerful motivator. Choice boards provide a simple way for teachers to encourage students to ownership of their learning and helps develop students’ abilities to make key decisions. In this episode we explore how to use choice boards with meaning and purpose in the classroom.

Our students are digital natives, leaving behind digital footprints that track their online activity. As 21st century teachers, we can help our students learn the impact of their digital actions and help them learn to be positive, responsible digital citizens.

Do your elementary student really know what privacy and security means when it comes to their interactions online? This episode in our digital citizenship series offers elementary teachers guidance on how they can help their students behave safely online both at school and home.

Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, has been around for a while, but it has become even more apparent that we need it in the months following the pandemic. But, too often SEL becomes just something “trendy” to talk about or slap on our school blueprints. It’s time to make it more than just a educational buzzword.

Students can’t learn in crisis mode. The foundation for any learning is a students’ social emotional health. Help set the stage for learning by implementing simple calming strategies that will allow students to manage and regulate their own feelings so that they can be more successful in the classroom and beyond.

Increasing student participation and a strong classroom community are two sides of the same coin. One leads to the other...and back again. Tune in to the Classroom Commute podcast to learn simple strategies that will help you achieve both!