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Teaching Middle School ELA, 612 episodes. Page 6 of 7.

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Stations Are the Key to Getting Your Students to Enjoy Poetry - 114

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How to Make One-Pagers Rigorous and Meaningful - 113

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Are Your Assessments REALLY Assessing the Standards? - 112

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Our Favorite Activities to Help Students Master ELA Standards - 111

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Are You Making This Mistake At the Beginning of Your Units? - 110

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How to Meaningfully Celebrate Women’s History Month in an ELA Classroom - 109

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Why Your Writing Units Aren’t Giving Your Students the Results You Want (and What You Can Do About it) - 108

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Finding Your Teacher Community Will Make You a Better Educator - 107

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How to Actually Get Students Excited at the Beginning of a Writing Unit - 106

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How to Channel Students' Valentine's Day Energy and Excitement Into Great Writing - 105

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A Reluctant Batch Planner Shares Her Success Story - 104

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Our Favorite F Word In the Classroom - 103

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Move Past Overwhelm and Start Batch Lesson Planning TODAY - 102

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How to Protect Your Peace in 2021 - 101

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Celebrating Our 100th Episode With Stories From Our EB Teachers - 100

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Is Your Narrative Unit Really Improving Students’ Writing Skills? - 099

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Why Being a “Perfect” Teacher Isn’t What Your Students Need - 098

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How One Writing Teacher Got Her Life Outside of School Back - 097

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How Empowered Educators Find Solutions Instead of Setbacks - 096

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A Life-Saving Holiday Activity That Will Get you To Winter Break - 095

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Playing to Win Matters More Than Curriculum - 094

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Empowered Educators Know the Power of Baby Steps - 093

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How to Make Every Lesson a Success With the Daily Plan That Caitlin and Jessica Swear By - 092

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Why Taking the Time to Reignite Your Passion for Teaching Will Make You More Effective - 091

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The Difference Between a Good and a GREAT Lesson Plan - 090

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3 Reasons to Prioritize Grammar Instruction Now - 089

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How to Cut Your Time Spent Grading Essays in Half - 088

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A Mini Narrative Writing Activity To Spiral Into Your Curriculum - 087

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The Real Reason Lesson Planning is Taking Too Long - 086

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Teachers Who Use Engaging Lessons Get the Best Results for Their Students - 085

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What's Preventing You From Having Your Best School Year Yet - 084

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Shake the Dirt Interview with Michael Arterberry - 083

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3 Easy Ways to Keep Your Students Engaged Remotely - 082

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More Quick and Easy Tips to Get Your Students Mastering the Writing Standards - 081

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Quick and Easy Tips to Get Your Students Mastering the Writing Standards - 080

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4 Things The Bachelor Can Teach You About Creating Engaging Lessons - 079

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4 Easy Tips for Leaving Meaningful Digital Feedback with Shana Ramin of Hello Teacher Lady - 078

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How to Differentiate Your Writing Instruction Without Any Extra Work! - 077

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How We Cut Our Stress Levels in HALF During the School Year - 076

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How Breaking the Rules Just Might Improve Test Scores - 075

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What Can Beverly Hills 90210 Teach Us About Improving Students’ Success in Writing? - 074

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Are You Still Teaching Writing This Way? Enough Already! - 073

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A Clear Timeline for Spiraling Narrative Writing Throughout the Year - 072

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Does Narrative Writing Have Middle Child Syndrome? - 071

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A Counterintuitive Tip to Uplevel Your Narrative Writing - 070

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An A-ha Moment from a One-Room Schoolhouse That Will Change the Way You Teach Narratives - 069

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Why You Have to Throw a Publishing Party - 068

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Two Changes to Make Right Now for Teaching Narrative Writing - 067

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Why Our Way of Teaching Narratives Gets Results - 066

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We're Celebrating Our Birthdays! A Get-to-Know-Us Episode - 065

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A Special Narrative Writing Project For The End of The Year - 064

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The 6 Must-Do Habits of a Kick-Butt Lesson Planner - 063

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Three Tips to Start Batch Planning Your Lessons Now - 062

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Breaking Curriculum Traditions with Amanda and Marie - 061

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Where Do We Go From Here? - 060

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Why You Need to Bring Creativity in the Classroom with David Rickert - 059

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The Power In Classroom Libraries with Kristy from 2 Peas and a Dog - 058

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Essential Tips to CRUSH Your Teaching Interview - 057

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Engaging Grammar Ideas with Lauralee Moss from Language Arts Classroom - 056

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Help Eliminate Classroom Behavior Problems with This Easy and Engaging Activity - 055

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Case Study with Chelsey Cabarrubias - 054

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The Best Way to Start and End Your ELA Class - 053

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Case Study with Alexa Borota - 052

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Surviving Valentine's Day in Middle School - 051

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EB Teachers' Club Case Study with Monica Jayasinghe - 050

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How to Shave Off Time Spent Lesson Planning - 049

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Are You Someone's Ms. Neilan? - 048

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Why Rigorous Lessons Are Not Enough - 047

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Let's Have More Fun in the Classroom, Shall We?! - 046

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Is It Good Teaching Practice to Use Sentence Starters? - 045

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Your Limiting Beliefs Are Holding You Back - 044

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Two Big Decisions I Wish I Had Made Sooner and Why You Should Make Them Now - 043

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BONUS Episode: From Elementary to Middle School Writing - 042

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How TAG and the EBW Approach Changed Everything for One Teacher - 041

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BONUS Episode: Case Study with Amy Cawthon

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Growing as a Teacher During Your First Years - 039

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How One Teacher Stepped Into the Mindset of What's Possible - 038

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Caitlin and Jessica: Our Teaching Stories - 037

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Why Student Writing Sometimes Sucks and What We Can Do About It - 036

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A Common Mistake You Might Be Making - 035

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Mini Literary Analysis Writing PD - Eliminate Writer's Block - 034

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Mini Literary Analysis Writing PD: Hooking Your Students - 033

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Picture Books in Middle School ELA with Jenna from Doc Cop Teaching - 032

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Making Vocabulary Meaningful with Melissa from Reading and Writing Haven - 031

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A Look Inside Another Teacher's Classroom with Ashli Cassidy - 030

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Bringing Podcasts into Your Classroom with Ashley from Building Book Love - 029

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Simple Steps for a Better Year: Mindfulness with Kailey from Educalme - 028

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Games in ELA: Part 2 of 2 - 027

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Games in ELA: Part 1 of 2 - 026

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Easy Lunch Ideas - 025

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Incorporating Informational Text in Easy and Meaningful Ways - 024

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First Day of School Activities - 023

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23 Pieces of Advice for the First Year Teacher - 022

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Make the Most of the TpT Sitewide Sale - 021

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3 Simple and Easy Classroom Organization Habits - 020

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Habits You Can Form Now to Build Classroom Community - 019

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The Benefits of Using a Writing Framework - 018

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Elevate Your First Chapter Fridays - 017

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The Instagram Classroom - 016

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Why We Left the Classroom - 015