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Ask the Authors: Mike Anderson and Margaret Berry Wilson

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In In the Media, Interviews
Q&A with the authors of the books in the What Every Teacher Needs to Know K–5 series Responsive Classroom Newsletter: November 2011 Whom did you have
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Ask the Author: Mike Anderson

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In In the Media, Interviews
Margaret Wilson talks with Mike Anderson about his new book Responsive Classroom Newsletter: November 2010 Margaret Wilson: I know that your own struggle with staying balanced and
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Keep Learning Going During Holiday & Vacation Times

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/article/keep-learning-going-during-holiday-vacation-times Adapted from Responsive blog posts by Mike Anderson and Margaret Wilson Responsive Classroom Newsletter: November 2010 Suddenly, it seems like the class
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A Comfortable Way to Work

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/comfortable-way-work I remember one third grader who really struggled with sitting still. If I’d required him to sit while he worked, it would have been really hard for him to get anything done. This child needed to move to
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Make Learning a Moving Experience

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/make-learning-moving-experience So you want to reduce the amount of time that your students are required to sit and to give them more chances to move. Could you build more movement into your lessons? Here’s one idea. Let’s say you’ve
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Move Around the Room

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
What are strategies for helping students be more physically active during the day, and how do we keep control of the group if they’re sitting less and moving more? Try having lessons take place in one area of the room,
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Lecture Less

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Great Academic Work, Teacher Talk
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/lecture-less So we know students need to sit still to accomplish some school tasks, but we don’t want to keep them sitting for too long. How can we minimize the amount of time we require children to sit still?
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Sitting Too Much?

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
“My students have such a hard time sitting still! They call out all the time! They’re constantly out of their seats!” After hearing this refrain over and over again from teachers, I decided to do a
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A Well-Balanced Read – Wonder of Children

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, In the Media
Original Article: https://wonderofchildren.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/a-well-balanced-read/ # Previous blogs this summer focused on ways to keep life in balance with Lessons from a Yogi and Securing Your Oxygen Mask Before Helping Others.  I certainly don’t have all the answers but I do know that
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Archived webinar: The Well-Balanced Teacher, ASCD, September 29, 2010

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In In the Media, Webinars
Archived webinar: The Well-Balanced Teacher, ASCD, September 29, 2010
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Ask the Author: Mike Anderson

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In In the Media, Interviews
This interview appeared on the Responsive Classroom blog in September, 2010. Questions for Mike Anderson, author of three books in the What Every Teacher Needs to Know series, including What Every 4th Grade Teacher Needs
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Fall Testing Tips

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/fall-testing-tips It’s fall! For many of us that means cooler temperatures, crisp leaves on the playground, thoughts of pumpkins and frost, and . . . testing. Yes, the beginning of the school year has become standardized testing time for
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New ASCD Book Helps Stressed-Out Educators Take Ownership of Personal Wellness

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In In the Media, Interviews, Press Releases
Original Press Release Link: http://www.ascd.org/news-media/Press-Room/News-Releases/New-ASCD-Book-Helps-Stressed-Out-Educators.aspx Alexandria, VA (09/22/10)—Combating teacher burnout can seem like an endless battle, but author Mike Anderson outlines practical steps for teachers to take ownership of their physical, mental, and emotional wellness in his new ASCD book,
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Every Teacher Tips: Displaying Student Work

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/every-teacher-tips-displaying-student-work In any classroom, displays should consist primarily of the children’s work, rather than teacher-made or store-bought pieces, no matter how beautiful those pieces might be. Displaying student work sends several important messages: As teachers, we value what students
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The Whole Teacher – Panel Discussion Podcast

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In In the Media, Interviews
Original Interview Link: http://www.wholechildeducation.org/assets/content/mx-newsletters/43350.html How is it that some educators are able to address the health and safety of their students; remain supportive; engage and challenge each student; and then head home at the end of the day with enough
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Be a Well-Balanced Teacher: Tips for the New School Year

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Health and Balance, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
The school year is about to start! It’s an exciting time of year, but it’s also pretty hectic. There’s the physical space to set up, lessons and units to prepare, students and families to get to know, and meetings to
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Classroom Connections: Community Supplies

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Classroom Management
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/article/classroom-connections In my first couple of years teaching fourth grade, I was surprised by how much my students argued about who owned which supplies. “Nicole, can I borrow your black marker?” Carradine would ask. “No. My mom bought these
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Technology in the Classroom

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
With new technologies arriving on the scene constantly, it can be hard for teachers to keep up. Which devices will improve the learning environment in your classroom? Which will gather dust? Here are some basic guidelines to help you decide
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Every Teacher Tips: Parents and Other Volunteers in the Classroom

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Classroom Management
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/every-teacher-tips-parents-and-other-volunteers-classroom Inviting parents and other adult family members into the classroom gives them a chance to experience some of their child’s school life. It can also be a way for you to get some help with clerical work (photocopying,
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Every Teacher Tips: Community Supplies

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Classroom Management
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/every-teacher-tips-community-supplies Just like adults, children of all ages need sufficient quantities of good-quality supplies if they’re going to do their best work. At the start of the year, teachers (or schools) often give out lists of supplies for each
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Classroom Tension Tamers: Three More Ideas to Use Now!

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
I wrote last week about things you can do to ease classroom stress during testing and other high-anxiety times. Here are three more tips for keeping the atmosphere of your classroom calm and productive! Have a
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Classroom Tension Tamers: Three Ideas to Use Now

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
It’s spring, and end-of-the-year-testing looms. The children are stressed. You’re stressed. You need to ease the tension—but how? Well, you’re not alone! When we asked Responsive Classroom fans on Facebook if they’d like to read about
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Behavior Challenges in the Homestretch? Interactive Modeling Can Help.

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Classroom Management, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/article/behavior-challenges-homestretch It’s April. It’s tempting to think that by now students understand our expectations and know how to behave, so we can all just coast to the end of the year. But, in most classrooms, that’s probably not true.
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Handling the Holidays (Part 5): Morning Meeting Message

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Original Article: http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/handling-holidays-morning-meeting-message Tips on using Morning Meeting Messages and the last part of Morning Meeting, reading the message together, to set a positive tone during the build-up to winter holidays and vacation. Winter themes. As with sharing, you might include
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Handling the Holidays (Part 4): Morning Meeting Group Activity

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Original Article: http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/handling-holidays-morning-meeting-group-activity Tips on using  Morning Meeting group activity, to set a positive tone during the build-up to winter holidays and vacation. Consider levels of movement and activity. How does your class respond (especially right now) to activities that get
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