First Year Success Toolkit

💎 Fall (August-October) 

✅ Have I thought of everything for the first day of school?

✅ Lay the ground work for your first week/month of successful learning

✅ How to handle behaviors with special occasions like Halloween

✅ Building a strong foundation of expectations

✅ How to prep your physical classroom for maximum learning

✅ Balancing planning lessons and meeting all student learning 

💎 Winter Quarter - (November-January) 

✅ How to handle the schedules of ALL the holidays

✅ How to schedule in learning with the constant breaks

✅ How to learn right up to Christmas break and have fun.

✅ How to successfully come back to school in January ready to learn

✅ How to motivate your students to maintain learning behaviors

✅ How to not burn out yourself, balancing the holidays in your private life and the school demands.

💎 Spring Quarter - (February-April) 

✅ How to prepare for state or end of the year testing

✅ How to keep learning when you’re burnt out

✅ Springtime sharpening of the tools for a calm classroom 

✅ How to maximize spring break: before, during and after.

✅ How do I feel about testing and how does that drive my instruction.

✅ How to keep students' morale up and ready for showing off their knowledge.

💎 Summer Quarter - (May-July) 

✅ How to continue learning after testing

✅ How to end the year strong

✅ How to  prepare for the next year

✅How to maximize your summer plans and rejuvenate

✅ What to do to close up the year to be most efficient when you get back

✅ How to balance home life, summer requirements and self care.

✅ Review of your use with the tools to prepare for next year.