written by Luke Reynolds, teacher, and author of The Looney Experiment After being a student for many years, and now in my 12th year of teaching, I am in a state of constant amazement at what students e-mail to say they remember after years away from our classroom. It makes me recollect what is most vivid […]
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Help Your Child Develop a Lifelong Love of Reading
Raising a Rock-Star Reader: 75 Quick Tips to Help Your Child Develop a Lifelong Love of Reading by Amy Mascott and Allison McDonald arrives to well-deserved fanfare November 10, 2015 and is available for pre-order now! Parents, this book is for you. It’s easy-to-read, well-written, and filled with expert advice for cultivating your child’s lifelong love […]
Continue ReadingClassroom Strategies for Sensory Processing Disorder
Despite the DSM 5’s (poor) decision not to recognize Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) as a disorder, it exists. And it affects many of our children. (One of mine included!) Fortunately, in the classroom, more teachers are becoming aware of SPD and the unique needs of children who have it. So what are helpful classroom strategies teachers are […]
Continue ReadingInspiration for Innovative Educators
I’m excited to share about an innovative education conference here in Denver, CO that will help teachers and administrators (you?) get their mojo back. It’s a conference that will renew your energy and give you inspiration, even if you have to take it back to a constraining environment. It’s 5 Sigma Edu Conference. You’ll learn, talk, and […]
Continue ReadingRead This If Your Child is Unhappy at School
written by Natalie, mom and blogger at Afterschool for Smarty Pants I am very honored to be posting on Imagination Soup today, but I am going to talk about a difficult topic. When our children go to school, we all want them to be happy and motivated. We want them to love learning, make friends, and […]
Continue ReadingBe a Teacher for a Day
Blue plastic-backed chairs wait on desks in the empty room. It won’t be like this for long. I know that the parents and students I trailed to the building are arriving at the playground from the surrounding streets and soon at the classroom. I’m spending the day shadowing third year, second-career teacher, Mrs. Jennifer Nelson, […]
Continue ReadingSummer Reading List – 5 Books for Thinking Parents
One morning while channel surfing, I stopped on a morning show to listen to a woman talking about my daughter. Well, not exactly . . . but exactly. She described kids who preferred to observe, who didn’t like to make eye contact, who get overwhelmed in social situations, who enter new situations slowly . . […]
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