Transfer the accountability and ownership to your students by giving them their own personal word wall books. This is a great way to supplement your pre-existing classroom word wall. Students can record the words on their own, track their own vocabulary, and add to it on their own. Whether it be new lesson vocabulary or words they identify in a text, this is a great way for them to take ownership over their own development and learning! There is a clear box for each starting letter as well as some blank spaces for flexibility!

Check out this variety pack that includes 10 different three column charts that are pre-labelled with some of the most common graphic organizers you would need in your class. Some of these include: (questions, answers, evidence), (What I know, What I don't know, What I wish I knew), (tool, function, drawing), and much more. Each page is presented in both bullet format and lined format. There is also a blank one for you to edit as you need. These can be applied again and again and implemented in a variety of ways. Be sure to check out my other graphic organizers as well!

Expedite getting to know your students through this self-reflective process of thinking through strengths and weaknesses. Separated into four color-coded sections, this inventory looks into academics, morals, social components, and future potential. Presented in a likert scale format, students will choose from four responses for each prompt that is either a smiley face, frowning face, straight face or a question mark. This is a great way to promote ownership over strengths and weaknesses as well as offer valuable insight into your students on the front end. Be sure to check out other get to know you surveys as well!

Check out this simple and visually stimulating graphic organizer that students can use in a variety of contexts. Whether it be organizing a writing piece or analyzing a story, the flow of the five boxes allows students to organize their thoughts and ideas. The template is provided in both color as well as black and white. Each of these templates also comes in three different forms including blank space, lines, and bullets to best meet the needs of you and your students. Be sure to check out our other graphic organizers as well!

Check out this awesome graphic organizer that can be used to facilitate your conversation roundtables with varying group sizes. Set up to support a conversation between anywhere from 2 people to 8 students. It is clearly labeled and structured with colors to help students organize their thoughts, ideas, and conversations. Embedded in the template is a section for the topic, essential question, notes from peers, and summary. Be sure to check out our other templates including our version 1 that is set up for differentiating to students' needs.

Check out this awesome graphic organizer that can be used to facilitate your conversation roundtables. Set up to support a conversation between four people. It is clearly labeled and structured with colors to help students organize their thoughts, ideas, and conversations. Embedded in the template is a section for the topic, essential question, notes from peers, and summary. This template is presented in a variety of formats to best fit students' needs including blank space, lines, bullets and more. Be sure to check out our other templates including our version 2 that is set up for different sized groups!

Simplify your monthly birthday planning with this simple form. It is intended to send home to parents to request various donations for birthdays. Streamline your birthday celebrations by celebrating them monthly and then ensure that parents that want to participate all dont send the same thing. This is a great way to ensure students are happy, parents are happy, and that your day is a bit easier! Happy birthday to all!

Check out this simple and clear graphic organizer that can be used to get to know your students at the beginning of the year. Either complete independently or used to facilitate a semi-structure interview, this outline includes seven questions that cover topics about interests, school, family, goals, after school activities, difficulties, pride and more. This is a great way to expedite the time in getting to know students at a more personal living and building a relationship and rapport with your kiddos!

Kick off the year with this simple and organized way of getting to know students. Whether it be 1:1 interviews or independent survey format, this outline will expedite the process of understanding who your students are, what they like, what their goals are and much more. The first page has 15 questions that include things like what their favorite candy is, their dream job, their least favorite class, their birthday and more. The second page offers more insight into who they are such as their self image of their intelligence. Have fun!

As we all know, independent reading at home has a huge impact on students' success in the classroom. Building stamina in our children while they read independently is extremely important. This simple bar graph template provides a great tracking system for the minutes of independnet reading per night. There are 15 columns for potential bars to track anywhere from one to thirty five minutes of reading. Students and parents are therefore able to track and take ownership over this growth and development. It also serves as a great resouces of documentation. The page is student friendly, includes a sample bar, and directions up top!

Check out this multipurpose organizer that has a fram at the top for students to place a visual and then lines down below for them to write. This can be a great way to activate students' prior knowledge about a topic in which they draw a memory or something they think of related to the topic, and then describe what they have drawn. By default, this gives students variety in the format they present their knowledge. It can alos be used for homework, an exit ticket, end of unit summary and so much more. It comes in four different formats for differentiation to different grade levels or ability levels!

Promote problem solving and positive self image with this template. While pushing students to reflect on their feelings and actions, this form is broken into three main parts. The first component has students make a promise for what they are going to do if someone hurts their feeling. The second part prompts them to think through the importance of talking about their feelings. This is heavily aligned to Conscious Discipline and communicating feelings. The third component has student think through why they know they are great. Ending with a signature, this is a great way to be proactive for problem solving behaviors and feelings!

Flip the discourse around by creating a positive environment around behavior. Praising the positive and focusing on the students doing the right thing is aligned to the PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions & Support). This is a great way to allow those students who often slip through the cracks for doing the right thing, receive the recognition they deserve. Formatted very similar to the tradition behavior report, there is a section for the location, character trait that was identified such as grit, honesty, humility, teamwork and much more. There is a section for the teacher comments, and then an administrators comments. This can then be sent home for parents to see the great things their child has done.

Check out this simple 5-question assessment that offers insight into students' understanding of scarcity and abundance concepts. Presented with 3 multiple choice question and 2 short answer drawing representations, this assessment can serve as a great quiz or exit ticket. It can also be adapted for independent work or homework.Through a variety of prompts of short stories, this worksheet ask students to identify a specific element from the story as a scarcity, and abundance, a supply, a demand, and more! An answer key is included for your convenience!

Check out this alternative brainstorming graphic organizer that pushes students to think through topics and ideas an a different way. The identified topic begins at the top, and then students think of different ideas related to it. Though students don't need to fill up the whole chart, the idea is that they think about different words starting with different letters. This forces them to diversify their answers. The template includes one line for each letter of the alphabet. Be sure to check out some of our other brainstorming templates as well!

Check out this differentiated variety pack that transfers the ownership of learning to the student. Supplement your class-wide KWL chart to having students keep their own KWL template that they can track their own learning. This pack include 5 different formats which include alternative spacing, bullets, open spacing and more. This can easily be used with different grade levels and can be implemented seamlessly to meet individual student needs. Be sure to check out my alternative KWL templates as well!

This 20-question assessment offers insight into students’ understanding the difference between fact and opinion. Presented in three parts, this assessment has 10 statements that students will choose if each is a fact or an opinion, followed by a short answer of defining each and followed by analyzing a passage. This can easily be used as a homework, independent worksheet and so much more. An answer key has been included for your convenience!

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!

Take your classroom communication to the next level with these accountability posters that pushes your students to challenge each others thoughts and ideas in a respectful and responsible way. Whether it be adding on to thinking, pushing back against ideas, questions understandings, or echoing and summarizing thoughts, these posters can do wonders for the oral communication development for all grade levels. Whether they are printed and laminated, hung around the room, or the mini versions attached are distributed to children, accountable talk posters will turn your classroom into a bunch of higher level thinking and talkers!

Facilitate your parent teacher conferences with this 8-question template. This is a great way to guide your conversations, push them to a deeper level, hold all parties accountable and making this time meaningful. Questions include things about students feeling about school, their favorite friends, difficulties in school, how can teachers help and much more. This is a great form of documentation for both you and the parents.