Meet Shawn Young, creator and CEO of Classcraft. Shawn shares how his passion for building positive relationships with students inspired him to create a behavior management tool that celebrates students’ success and focuses on positive interventions.

Sometimes the smallest tweaks to your classroom management plan can make the biggest difference! Learn 7 simple, yet effective classroom management hacks that not only help keep students focused and engaged, but also help build a stronger classroom community in the process.

In college, you learn a lot about how to run a classroom. But - there are many things that you only learn about teaching through experience. Johnny Tiersma, 6th grade teacher and children’s author, is sharing 10 truths about how to build a classroom community - all of which he’s learned from experience!

Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, has been around for a while, but it has become even more apparent that we need it in the months following the pandemic. But, too often SEL becomes just something “trendy” to talk about or slap on our school blueprints. It’s time to make it more than just a educational buzzword.

How you end your lessons shouldn’t be an after thought, although for many elementary teachers — it often is (at least when we are not being observed!). When you’re spending so much time planning a lesson for your students, be sure to end it on a high note. In this podcast episode, I’ll show you 10 simple, yet engaging ways to end your next lesson.

Students can’t learn in crisis mode. The foundation for any learning is a students’ social emotional health. Help set the stage for learning by implementing simple calming strategies that will allow students to manage and regulate their own feelings so that they can be more successful in the classroom and beyond.

Increasing student participation and a strong classroom community are two sides of the same coin. One leads to the other...and back again. Tune in to the Classroom Commute podcast to learn simple strategies that will help you achieve both!