Teacher Schedules: New Normal, New Opportunities

Routines, schedules, and consistency are the guiding principles in the life of a teacher. Teachers plan their bathroom breaks to the second, their planning period work time to the minute, and create time-stamped lesson plans. The coronavirus pandemic has thrown that into a loop. Many teachers are at home without their productive, student-focused, and comfortable …

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Five Ways to Motivate Your Child

What do I need to do to motivate my child? A very important part of social-emotional learning is helping students own and control their own motivations and behaviors towards work. Getting students to be intrinsically motivated and energized by any work, especially schoolwork, is already a challenge for most teachers in a classroom. Now it’s even …

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Will Schools Reopen? “What Happens If…”

Parents everywhere are asking that question about school. What happens if it’s closed again next year and it doesn’t reopen? And what happens if my school does school intermittently and I don’t have childcare? What happens if school starts back? Will my child be safe? The amount of “what ifs” could drive you crazy. Most …

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Celebrating Senior Graduations and Milestones

As we all know, COVID-19 has changed our world and will definitely be impacting how you plan for graduation and end of year ceremonies this year. In our weekly Possip parent pulse checks, parents are asking about how to celebrate our seniors and other “end of year” milestones that students are really looking forward to. …

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Engaging Children Under 5 in Learning at Home

80% of children’s brain growth occurs in the first three years of life. A lot of this includes learning at home. Here are a few quick tips on how to interact with your Pre-K child and make it a learning experience! The first two strategies are going to be more focused on parent-child interactions where …

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Building a Community During School Closures

Building a strong community is more important now than ever during these school closures. Students, parents, teachers, and leaders all need the support system of a strong community to get through this time. Possip surveyed parents all around the country about needs they have during the school closures- and we found that interestingly, what parents …

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