Back to School Activities at the start of the school year can be a fantastic opportunity to start a growth mindset in your students! You can start
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Humanagrams! FREE Class Teamwork Group Activity
Need a quick activity to do with your class? Why not play Humanagrams? Activity overview: Students try to combine letters in different ways to make words. There is a class set of 31 letters on regular paper (8.5” x 11”): 26 letters in the English alphabet, and each vowel has 2 copies. Learning objective: Practice […]
LOST AT SEA – FREE Critical Thinking Mini Lesson Group Activity
Lost at Sea is a fantastic team-building activity. This is a classic activity that can be found all across the Internet, but we’ve adapted it to help you focus on CRITICAL THINKING. Plus, we made the activity look visually appealing for school. Check it out! Psst. It’s FREE! 2 HOURS and 101 SLIDES / PAGES […]
Why aren’t you giving away FREE teaching resources?
Sharing is caring. Why don’t you give away all of your resources for free? This is an excellent, and important question. Let’s talk about why we charge a nominal fee for some of our lesson plans on our Educircles Teachers Pay Teachers store. As teachers, we care about our students, our program, and our school […]
Growth Mindset Lesson Plans and Resources to teach 6 Cs of Education
Do you need Growth Mindset Lesson Plans and Resources to help you teach the 6 Cs of Education (21st-century learning skills): Character, Citizenship, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking? No problem, we got you! I don’t have time to read this. Jump to the Growth Mindset Lesson Plans / Resources catalogue Too long. Didn’t read. (Ironic […]
We are growing and learning all the time…
This page isn’t quite ready just yet. So why did we publish a blank page holder? Why not wait until it was completely done? Because sometimes, you just have to start. (Like this strategy here.) Every journey starts with a single step. And this is our first step. Every mighty tree starts from a single […]
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Effective Communication Lesson Plans: strategies, barriers, process and skills
Effective communication lesson plans help teachers provide effective communication strategies to elementary, middle school, and high school students. We need to provide our children and students with 21st-century transferable learning skills to cope wi …
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Collaboration Skills lesson plans: How to teach collaborative strategies
Collaboration skills and Teamwork skills are often used interchangeably, but they’re not the same thing! I used to think (and tell my students) that collaboration skills meant the same thing as teamwork skills and group work skills, but now that I’ve d …
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GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS (Version Française)
Download Entire Lesson English Version THIS IS THE FRENCH VERSION of our GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS: Character perseverance strategies that empower. We have translated our ENGLISH posters so that our French Immersion and Core French colleagues can use them …
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GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS PDF: Perseverance Bulletin Board Ideas
Version Française UPDATE Aug 13, 2019: Back to School is around the corner and with it comes a fresh opportunity to use Growth Mindset Posters (PDF) perseverance bulletin board ideas to inspire your students. Your students are coming in with a chance t …
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Good CITIZENSHIP lesson plans: equality vs equity diversity debates
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Character Education Lesson Plans: Life skills, Advisory, Homeroom ideas
UPDATE Sep 12, 2019: Sign up for our newletter updates to find out about our next BIG SALE. Figuring out how to grow a growth mindset is cool. Saving money while doing it is even cooler. Click Here Character Education lesson plans are not just for thos …
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Exploring the Six Cs – Lesson 1 Fun Activities and Icebreakers Intro
This lesson is a great way to introduce the 6 Cs of Education learning skills to your students and to set the tone for a year of growth mindset and perseverence: The Six Cs are a bunch of transferable skills that you can use at school, at home, at a jo …
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Exploring the 6 Cs of Education Unit – Overview Lesson
Exploring the 6 Cs of Education is a great way to kick off the new school year or school term. UNIT BIG IDEA By the end of this unit, students will be able to Understand / Explain the six Cs of Education and Deep Learning (Learning Skills): Character, …
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