How many of us have great intentions when it comes to placing on our "To-Do" list making a positive call, email, text, etc. to one of our students' parents to communicate with them something great their child has achieved. While we have great intentions, all too often, it "slips to the back burner" and doesn't happen as often as it should. Use this resource to make sure this happens, and use it as a tool to make sure that within a given amount of time most all of your students have received that magic "bellsouth" call expressing something that everyone can be proud of... we know that many times the not-so-positive phone call, email, text, etc is received so much better and more positive when a positive piece of news has been shared as well along the way. Use this log to keep track of your communication as well as a tool to utilize at parent conferences-- great tool to begin the year with not to mention how much students will love your efforts!

Springtime is here! Everybody is gearing up for baseball and softball season! And… what student doesn't want to be complimented on his/her great traits or a job well done. Use this resource packet of numbered baseballs to place on a large glove when a student does a great job or compliments another student for a job well done! This resource set includes baseballs numbered from one to forty-eight as well as twelve baseballs that are not numbered that can be used multiple ways. Set up a system with your classroom that when students earn a certain amount of baseballs or a certain amount of points, they are rewarded as a class! This can be a great system to encourage family and community in your classroom!

Start the school year off right with a creative, top-ten countdown activity! Your students will love it! Students are able to introduce themselves to you and their classmates with a list of ten things to learn about them. Have fun and use this as an ice-breaker activity to get the year cranked up!

This resource is great for any math teacher needing a reference tool for the divisibility rules… so calling all third, fourth, and fifth grade math teachers… this resource is for YOU! This set includes a divisibility poster for each number from two through ten. Each poster is very colorful and will fit perfectly on a bulletin board as well as right above the whiteboard in your classroom!

This resource packet will serve one well all year. Enclosed you will find each day of the week in uniquely different designs. These can be used for many different activities such as: learning the days of the week, understanding the order of the days of the week, and working with a big group with the calendar. These day of the week plates might also be used in a writing center in learning to write each day of the week. Finally, these day plates might be helpful in a literacy center in learning how the calendar works!

This is an awesome Powerpoint training for general education teachers, special needs educators, administrators, and all other educators alike. It consists of one hundred slides that progress from definitions, descriptions, myths, how it is diagnosed, causes, deficits and gifts, executive functions, medications, strategies and interventions, and places to seek more help and resources. This is an awesome all-day training that has the opportunity to be very interactive with many visuals and graphics. It is also a great resource for a Parent University setting. As well, it can be used in a smaller faculty group such as a Professional Learning Community. Finally, paraprofessionals will also benefit greatly from this knowledge base!

This is an awesome PowerPoint training on classroom management. This resource contains forty-seven slides and is appropriate for all teachers, administrators, and other educators. This can be used in a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, or even a small professional learning community! This training is full of strategies that are researched and recommended by Harry and Rosemary Wong! You don't want to miss grabbing this resource for a back-to-school session with your colleagues!

This is an awesome training PowerPoint for a great discussion with teachers to prevent teacher burn-out and stress! Everyone knows how challenging the teaching profession can be! It is important more now than ever to take care of great teachers and keep them in the profession and continue to enjoy what they do! This training presentation is sixty slides and ranges from causes of teacher-burnout to be aware of and then many, many strategies and examples to implement to avoid “teacher-burn-out! Use this training presentation in a focus faculty meeting, professional development session, or in a smaller professional learning community!

This resource is a must have for administrators. The training consists of approximately fifty-five slides that brings to light empowered teachers! In this training, administrators will gain insight on the true definition of teacher empowerment, the changing roles and responsibilities of leadership, characteristics of empowered teachers, benefits of empowered teachers, rethinking professional knowledge, and the role of administrators in empowering teachers. In examining the role of administrators empowering teachers, leadership/ownership, professional development, culture, and appreciation will be examined and analyzed. Administrators will walk away with their "A"game in how to empower teachers for increased student achievement.

For all of you owl lovers out there getting ready to start back to school, this resource is a set of approximately fifty name plates that can be utilized for each student that follow an owl theme! Brighten your classroom with these versatile name plates that will make each one of your students feel special and important. Each name plate can be laminated to each students’ desks and lockers. They can also be used to personalize announcements and schedules! Have an awesome school year!

For all of you beach, ocean, and fish lovers out there getting ready to start back to school, this resource is a set of thirty name plates that can be utilized for each student that follow an fish, ocean, and beach theme! Brighten your classroom with these versatile name plates that will make each one of your students feel special and important. Each name plate can be laminated to each students’ desks and lockers. They can also be used to personalize announcements and schedules! Have an awesome school year!

What child does not love sock monkeys? This resource is a set of seven classroom rules with a sock money theme! You may only want to use four or five of the rules or change the rules out to suit the needs of your classroom and the challenges that it presents!

What a better way to start the school year! This resource is an Interest Inventory to help you to get to know your students! Students are able to list their favorites… such as their favorite subject, food, movie, person, place, and book, etc. Response to Intervention, a federal mandate, states that in Tier I we take the opportunity to get to know our children in every way possible! This inventory allows you, as a teacher, to have another tool to get to know your students well and engage the unmotivated with a topic they are interested in learning!!

This resource is a set of critical academic vocabulary words that all fifth graders should know to master the Common Core State Standards! 85% of achievement and criterion referenced assessments are based on the vocabulary of the standards! Students from poverty, ELL students, and other at-risk students are particularly in need of learning these words in ways that meet their specific learning needs and styles throughout the year! Included in this set of Tier II academic vocabulary are the high frequency words of the CCSS and the words present in the exemplars provided in Appendix B. This awesome resource consists of over 100 slides with academic vocabulary specifically for fifth grade. These words are the perfect size to add to your word wall and spiral back to all year long. This set of fifth grade vocabulary consists of over two hundred words! Check it out!

This set of slides contains over 200 festive Christmas lights that can be used for a multitude of reasons! There are over six different colors in the packet. They can be used to help headline the different bulletin board statements such as: (1) Let Your Light Shine Brightly!; (2) We All Shine Bright in English Class; (3) Let Your Light Shine Before Men; (4) In This Class, We Light Up Our Lives; (5) I Shine When I Am Kind; (6) Bright Students Light Up Our Classroom; (7) Our Work Shines Bright… and many, many more! These lights might also be used in December to showcase “bright” work. As well, these Christmas lights can be utilized to manage center rotation and classroom management during the month of December!

Okay my teacher friends! This is for you! It’s time to think about what YOU want to do this summer to rejuvenate! Increase that dopamine and serotonin! It’s a must to be your best and be able to return in August with your “A-Game!” Use these bucket list cards to choose and write down goals for the summer – professional and personal! Go out have a great day and locate an awesome bucket to “house your goals”! Get a pack of clothespins and clip your goals to your bucket! As you accomplish them, unclip them and drop them in the bucket! Remember that you MUST have professional and personal goals… all work and no play is not healthy! But, most importantly, have fun and relax -- this time is about you and your family so that in August you can be your absolute best!

This resource is a set of training slides that serves to educate young teens, young adults, and adults on how to finish what you start. This presentation contains eleven strategies to help finish tasks! You can’t go wrong in utilizing this presentation with middle schoolers, high schoolers, young adults in college, and parents in a “Parent University” setting!

This resource consists of sixty-eight slides to serve as training and support materials for rejuvenating your passion for teaching. Many of the strategies discussed originate from the book, Unshakable, by Angela Watson. All educators will enjoy being a part of this training in helping themselves to rejuvenate at a grade level meeting, a professional development session, or a professional learning community!

We are all so completely busy! And... I am not sure if you have the same type of problems as myself; however, I am a procrastinator! In saying this, this resource is a printable that includes a strategy for managing your time. In this resource, the "Einstein Urgent Important Principle" is utilized and will prove to be a huge asset! Try it! Specifically, it allows you to prioritize your "to-do" list into four different categories which include: (1) Important and Urgent-- do it now; (2) Important, But Not Urgent-- Plan It; (3) Not Important, But Urgent -- Delegate it; and then (4) Not Important and Not Urgent -- Dump It! Try this printable-- hope you enjoy!

What child does not love sock monkeys? This resource is a set of seven classroom rules with a sock money theme! You may only want to use four or five of the rules or change the rules out to suit the needs of your classroom and the challenges that it presents!