Save your time and money on buying items and experiences for your students as motivators when there are so many free opportunities out there! We have compiled a list of 50 ways to reward your kids without spending a dime. The first page you will find them all listed out while you will find them placed on tickets on the following two pages. The tickets can be cut and either picked out of a hat or chosen by students as their award. Whether it be individual rewards, group rewards or whole class incentives, this can be used year after year to motivate your students - hopefully transitioning them to an intrinsic motivation! have fun!

Add another level of accountability to your exit ticket progress monitoring with the simple and well-organized template to track student scores. This teacher-friendly format makes it so easy to see how students are doing over an extended period of time. This is great for student conferencing as well as transparent grades with parents and families. Simplified into a check format, 1/2 credit format, and X for struggling. Adapt as needed :)

Check out this 12 question reflective survey where students can express their feelings in regard to the culture of the classroom. With a focus on leadership, empowerement, and general teacher review. This survey holds great potential for teachers to gain insight into how students feel in your class, how they feel about you, and how they feel about themselves. This can easily be used as a benchmark throughout the year, so changes can be implemented. It provides a great opportunity to meet the needs of all students!

Separated into five categories with 2-5 subcomponents accompanied by explanations, this template is a phenomenal resource in clearly articulating and giving feedback on question quality. This can be implemented as a self-reflective process or as a checklist for developing assessment questions and in-class informal questions. This will push your practice and better align your questions to the rigor that is expected for all teachers and students. This will also push students to think more critically and higher on the Bloom Taxonomy if implemented with fidelity.

Check out this massive variety pack of To Do Lists. We recommend printing them on color paper, but each page is a different pre-assigned list such as the weekly planner, list for PLCs, list for beginning of the year, for the weekend, for open house, for parent teacher conference, for TpT items, and so much more. Each page also comes in a half page form for simple and convenient printing. We hope this adds some simplicity to your life and streamlines your efficiency! Happy planning!

Check out this simple classroom form that documents missed homework. This can easily be tracked by the teacher or transferred to the student and allow them to have the autonomy of tracking their work. The template is broken into a few categories including the student, date, assignment, reason for missing the assignment as well as a consequence. It is quick, and provides great documentation and tracking over time!

Equipped with 13 prompts to promote leadership problem solving, this worksheet pushes students to think through a variety of scenarios. Based on ideas for the Leader in Me program, this assignment is not meant to be a punishment for a misbehavior but rather a method to redirect the attention and promote leadership, critical thinking, and help students grow. It can be implemented after a misbehavior as a method of restorative practices or proactively.

Keep your observations, evaluations, and feedback organized in this simple and colored coded graphic organizer that tracks your data from the Danielson Evaluation Framework. Though these domains were not meant to be used for observations, it is often implemented with that purpose. This clearly labelled and well-organized template allows you to track your areas of growth, area os need, and change over time. Be sure to check out our “Danielson Evaluation Framework Reference Guide with Key Components” as well!

Check out this simple and color-coded guide to constructing really great questions that promote critical thinking. Organized into six sections with a multitude of stems to get your questions rolling, this reference sheet will take your questioning to the next level. But promoting deeper thinking questions, you will be able to scaffold more easily, differentiate smoothly and meet the needs of your students while holding them all accountable. This reference guide is provided for you in both color and gray-scale.

For those of us that still include teacher provided feedback on report cards, this is a great tool to take your writing to the next level. Presenting yourself professionally matters and with this extensive list you will find ample adjectives that can be used to describe any student that may cross your path. This can also be used for students as they develop their writing and speaking skills to use higher level vocabulary and switch up the same old words that they repeat often. Happy writing!

Check out this simple and color-coded graphic organizer for Danielson's Evaluation rubric. Breaking down the four major components into its various components, this guide simplifies the rhetoric and expectations for each possible rubric components. This serves as a great reminder, reference, and support tool as you navigate the rubric, its language and its expectations.