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Teaching Middle School ELA, 612 episodes. Page 3 of 7.

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Monday Mindset: Finding the Solution Instead of the Problem

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Episode 295: The First Day of School Activity Your Students Will Go Home Talking About

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Monday Mindset: Attitude Is a Little Thing That Makes a Big Difference

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Episode 294: Use These Four Words Everyday With Your Students and Watch Your Test Scores Skyrocket

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Monday Mindset: Dream Big

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Episode 293: Not Enough Time in Your Class Period? Listen to This

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Monday Mindset: Opportunity is Risk

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Episode 292: Summer Lesson Planning Series: Rethink Your Weekly Lesson Plans (And Ditch What You Learned in College)

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Monday Mindset: Just Start

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Episode 291: Summer Lesson Planning Series: Taking it to the Next Level: Designing Effective "Beyond" Framework

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Monday Mindset: Forget the Mood You're In

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Episode 290: Summer Lesson Planning Series: Elevating Student Mastery with "Through" Framework

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Monday Mindset: How to Pour Into Yourself

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Episode 289: Summer Lesson Planning Series: Setting the Stage: Crafting Engaging "Into" Framework

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Monday Mindset: Your Purpose is NOT for you

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Episode 288: Summer Lesson Planning Series: Standards: Doctors Don't Wing it and Neither Should You

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Monday Mindset: The Only Person You Can Control is You

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Episode 287: Lesson Planning is So 2010 (Just Like Printing Boarding Passes)

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Monday Mindset: Serve Others

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Episode 286: 3 Must Do's to Close Out this School Year and Prepare for Next Year

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Monday Mindset: Take Time for Appreciation

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Episode 285: Why You Should Ditch New Lessons at the End of the Year

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Monday Mindset: Change the Way You Worry

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Episode 284: Team EB's Favorite Grading Hacks

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Monday Mindset: Forget What Time it Is

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Episode 283: Unleash Student Creativity with SCAMPER Sessions

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Monday Mindset: You Don't Have to Be Happy All the Time

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Episode 282: Early Finishers? Use this Game Changing Chat GPT Command

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Monday Mindset: Permission to Want More

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Episode 281: What You Need to Know About Effective Adaptations for ELLs and Students in Special Education

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Monday Mindset: Everything is Figureoutable

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Episode 280: Episode 280: What These Five Countries Are Doing to Support Their Teachers (Share This with Your Principal!)

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Monday Mindset: Open the Doors

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Episode 279: A Research Unit Your Students Will Actually Enjoy

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Monday Mindset: Celebrate Today

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Episode 278: A Simple Hack for Helping Students Find the Main Idea in Informational Text

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Monday Mindset: The Real Luxuries in Life

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Episode 277: Intentionally Bringing Joy Into Our Classrooms with Dr. Deonna Smith

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Monday Mindset: You Didn't Miss Your Boat

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Episode 276: A Simple Hack to Differentiate Your Lessons

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Monday Mindset: Pay Attention

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Episode 275: Teaching Beyond Tests A New Approach

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Monday Mindset: A New Way of Overcoming Obstacles

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Episode 274: How to Differentiate With Whole Group Instruction

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Monday Mindset: Stop the Judgement

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Episode 273: Research Behind Great Teachers

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Monday Mindset: Live Abundantly

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Episode 272: Learning to Admire Annoying Behaviors

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Monday Mindset: Prove Yourself Wrong

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Episode 271: "Funds of Feeling" - A Feeling-Based Approach to Literature with Stanford's Sarah Levine and Chris Mah

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Monday Mindset: Bending Time

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Episode 270: Science of Reading - Building Reading Comprehension at the Middle School Level

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Monday Mindset: Create Newness

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Episode 269: Easy to Implement Activities to Improve Vocabulary and Comprehension (Takeaways from The Ron Clark Academy)

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Monday Mindset: How Much Better Can It Actually Get?

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Episode 268: The Science of Reading in Your Classroom

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Monday Mindset: Judgement Will Kill Your Bravery

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Episode 267: Prepare for the Unexpected (when students are absent)

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Monday Mindset: Joyful Anticipation

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Episode 266: Interview with Grace Stevens on Setting Healthy Boundaries

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Monday Mindset: Positive Self-Talk

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Episode 265: Use Your Prep Period for Grading (Not Planning)

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Monday Mindset: Be Curious About Your Greatness

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Best of: Move Past Overwhelm and Start Batch Lesson Planning TODAY

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Monday Mindset: Be About It

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Best of: Transform Your Planning Process and Take Back Your Time: 2 Simple Steps to Start Batch Planning Today

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Monday Mindset: Decision Making

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Best of: Publishing Parties: A Critical Part of Your Writing Unit (That is Often Overlooked)

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Monday Mindset: Read More

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Best of: Engaging Activities to Add to Short Story Units

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Monday Mindset: Compassionate Emptiness

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Best of: Anticipation Stations: Your New Go-To Pre-Reading Activity

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Monday Mindset: Radical Generosity

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Best of: Set Yourself Up for Success During the Holiday Season

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Monday Mindset: Discipline

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Episode 254: Teach Student-Friendly Short Stories with this Simple Hack

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Monday Mindset: Quiet Quitting

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Episode 253: Master the Tricky Standard of Analyzing Conflicting Information with this Lesson

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Monday Mindset: A+ player

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Episode 252: Cut Back on Grading While Leaving Meaningful Feedback with Dr. Harper

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Monday Mindset: Be the Reason

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Episode 251: Tap Into Students' Halloween Energy with this Haunted Forest Escape Room

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Monday Mindset: Change Your Perspective

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Episode 250: The Fabulous Edgar Allan Poe Two Truths and a Lie Game

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Monday Mindset: Get an Accountability Partner

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Episode 249: Finally! A Way for Middle Schoolers to Write Effective Summaries

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Monday Mindset: Let's Romanticize the Mundane Things in Our Lives

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Episode 248: Stop Writing Sample Essays with Your Students; Do THIS Instead

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Monday Mindset: Rest is Not a Reward

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Episode 247: Your Burning ELA Questions Answered

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Monday Mindset: Seasons

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Episode 246: Get Your Students to Rock their Text-Dependent Paragraphs with this Strategy

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Monday Mindset: You're Not Good at Everything

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Episode 245: The Argument for Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom

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Monday Mindset: Stop Hitting the Snooze Button

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Episode 244: A No-Prep Grammar Activity Your Students Will Love

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Monday Mindset: You'll regret what you didn't do

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Episode 243: Interview with Frederick Buskey of the Assistant Principal Podcast

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Monday Mindset: Let Go of Expectations

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Episode 242: A Must Try Classroom Management Hack (So Your Students Can Actually Handle Group Work)