Month: February 2021

How to Engage Your Students at the Start of Class

By Cindy Schwartz, Co-Founder and Director of Secondary Education This blog post is an adaptation of “Class Starters,” an episode of the Attentive Teaching Podcast. Our podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and other major podcast platforms. It’s a Sunday night and you are wondering how you can make tomorrow’s class more interesting. How can you get your …

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How To Create a Visually Appealing Classroom for Better Learning

By James Rossi, Classroom Coordinator Today’s post is part of a series on using the five senses to create an optimal learning environment. You can find all of those posts here. In the same way that smells engage a response based on evolutionary pressures, the things we see can affect our states. Unlike smell, however, …

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How to Have Positive Experiences with Your Students’ Parents

By Cindy Schwartz, Co-Founder and Director of Secondary Education This blog post is an adaptation of “The Parent Connection,” an episode of the Attentive Teaching Podcast. Our podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and other major podcast platforms. Let’s discuss the Parent Connection. That’s the connection that teachers and parents have, a connection that isn’t always …

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