Meghan Mathis



8 Activities to Make the Last Days of School Memorable and Fun
Here are eight fun and unique ways to spend the last few days of the school year. The activities will leave your students with fun, positive memories of their experience in your classroom that they...
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Honoring Hispanic Heritage on Cinco de Mayo
Here are a few ideas for teaching your students that Cinco de Mayo is about more than taco day in the school cafeteria. Help students separate Cinco de Mayo fact from fiction, all while introducing...
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Young Adult Fiction You Should Read This Summer
Mix business with pleasure this summer by getting some great ideas for motivating your students to read while enjoying some excellent young adult literature.
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Non-Fiction Doesn’t Have to Mean Not Interesting:  5 High-Interest Non-Fiction Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
With the Common Core State Standards stressing the need for a drastic increase in the amount of nonfiction texts our students interact with throughout their school career, I’ve decided to “mix...
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Strategies for Dealing with Sleepy Students
The majority of teachers have had to deal with students sleeping in the classroom. But how do we correct the behavior without wasting a ton of class time or sending our students the message that we...
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How to Help: Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries
While many educators think of March as Women’s History Month and may offer a lesson or two encouraging their students to recognize the many accomplishments and contributions women have made in our...
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Gods and Monsters: Teaching High School Mythology
When I first became a middle-school teacher, I was thrilled to learn that a brief Greek/Roman Mythology unit was part of my curriculum. My students loved learning about the different Gods and...
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Having spent time as both an Emotional Support teacher and a regular education teacher with identified students in my class, here’s a list of dos and don’ts that have helped me to best accommodate...
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Teachers are People, Too! 5 Things I'd Love My Students to Know About Me
Now that I’m the one standing in front of the class instead of sitting in it, I imagine that there are things my teachers would have probably liked me to know that I didn’t understand at the time....
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5 Common Fears Teachers Have about Communicating with Parents
While it was common in the past for a teacher to only speak to parents during Back-to-School Night and Parent-Teacher conferences, teachers nowadays are expected to communicate much more frequently....
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