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Purpose: To slow the heart and breathing rate, calm the amygdala, and improve focus.

1. Discuss with the students the importance of controlling their breath and the benefits that repetitive deep breathing has on their ability to focus and control their emotions.

2. Demonstrate finger tracing and its use in mindful breathing. (Watch the JusTme finger tracing video)

As you breathe in and out, trace around your fingers. On the in-breath, trace up the outside of your left thumb with your right index finger. On the out-breath, trace down the other side. Repeat for the next four fingers. Notice how you feel afterwards.

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Purpose: To slow the heart and breathing rate, calm the amygdala, and improve focus. 1. Discuss with the students the importance of controlling their breath and the benefits that repetitive deep breathing has on their ability to focus and control their emotions. 2. Demonstrate finger tracing and its use in mindful breathing.

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Education conferences give teachers, administrators, and other education professionals a chance to explore new ideas and strategies, network with their peers, and recharge their excitement for teaching. Plus, there's always a lot of fun free swag! There are meetups across the country and all throughout the year in 2023, including some virtual options. (Tip: Book early to get the best rates.) Here are our picks for the best education conferences for the year ahead.

The National K-8 Literacy & Reading Recovery Conference is the place to be for leaders in childhood literacy. Designed by and for educators, LitCon sessions focus on best instructional practices for classroom teachers, literacy coaches and specialists, Title I teachers and coordinators, Reading Recovery professionals, and more.

The ISS events offer you access to four education conferences, each with their own individual focus, all for one price. Attend sessions for the Wired Differently/Trauma-Informed Schools Conference, Innovative Teaching Strategies Conference, School Climate & Culture Forum, and At-Risk Students Conference. It's a terrific way to put together a conference experience that's truly meaningful to you.

Dates and locations:

This conference is all about what educators really want! Participants vote on thousands of proposals submitted by fellow educators, choosing the final lineup for what promises to be one of the most exciting conferences around. For 2023, the initial lineup highlights an increase of content supporting Indigenous voices, student agency, gamification, teacher retention, and more. The majority of sessions are in Practice & Pedagogy and Equity & Justice, followed closely by Work Reimagined, Community Initiatives, and Arts & Storytelling.

In this three-day science and STEM education event, educators will share experiences, learn from collaborators, catch up with colleagues, and meet new friends. There will be engaging presentations focused on developing scientific literacy in the STEM classroom, as well as a vibrant Exhibit Hall featuring the latest teaching tools and materials, plus so much more!

Learn, celebrate, connect. Don't miss this action-packed event with hundreds of educational movers, shakers, and changemakers. Supercharge as an educator ready to shape the future of education. This year's speakers include Brandon P. Fleming, founder of the Harvard Diversity Project.

March 31-April 3, 2023

Denver, Colorado

The 2023 conference celebrates NAFSA's 75th anniversary of promoting international education and exchange. The majority of attendees work on college campuses, but K-12 schools with a strong commitment to foreign exchange programs or international education will find benefit in sending attendees too. The 2023 meetup is all about "Inspiring an Inclusive Future."

The Online Teaching Conference is a gathering of faculty, staff, and administrators who are leading the way in developing innovative and effective online education. This conference is focused on curriculum, pedagogy, and technology to improve online instruction, learning, and student success. The Online Teaching Conference is an opportunity for educators to network with colleagues, connect, share knowledge, impart and receive best practices, and develop professionally.

June 21-23, 2023

Long Beach, California

Small changes can have big results. Learn how purposeful, consistent actions have a major impact on student success. Be inspired by the featured speakers, dynamic sessions, and the Model Schools and Innovative Districts that are successfully transforming culture and student achievement. You'll also get the chance to connect with fellow educators in a collaborative learning community and take away hands-on, actionable ideas for your school.

June 25-28, 2023

Virtual kickoff, followed by the ability to attend conference sessions online or in person in Orlando

For more than four decades, ISTE has been recognized as one of the world's most influential education conferences. It's where educators and education leaders gather to engage in hands-on learning, share best practices, and hear from the brightest minds in the world of education and beyond.

June 25-28, 2023

Virtual or in person, Philadelphia

Need to reignite your passion for teaching? This might be the education conference for you. Spend time with Team Get Your Teach On as they share their enthusiasm for education and share their tips, tricks, best practices, and teacher secrets to building a successful and engaging classroom. You will leave feeling empowered, motivated, and prepared to create dynamic lessons that will challenge your students and leave them hungry for more.

The Visible Learning Conference will help you explore and improve student growth and achievement in the context of post-pandemic teaching. This conference will support you leveraging your expertise as an educator to make decisions about what content, ideas, and skills you want students to know, understand, and do. During these conference sessions, you'll embark on these elements of Visible Learning: teaching, leading, learning, and equity.

If you are looking for education conferences for math teachers, then the NCTM Annual Meeting is the one. It is considered the "Super Bowl Event of the Year." This event brings together thousands of mathematics educators from all over the world to collaborate, network, learn, inspire, and much more. With hundreds of education sessions to choose from and attend, you can expect to walk away with more knowledge and inspiration to implement into your classrooms.

What other education conferences should be on our radar? Share in the comments below!

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The best education conferences help you recharge, network with peers, and come home with exciting new ideas for your school and classroom.

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A Framework for Anti-Bias Education

The Social Justice Standards are a road map for anti-bias education at every stage of K-12 instruction. Comprised of anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes, the standards provide a common language and organizational structure educators can use to guide curriculum development and make schools more just and equitable.

Divided into four domains-identity, diversity, justice and action (IDJA)-the standards recognize that, in today's diverse classrooms, students need knowledge and skills related to both prejudice-reduction and collective action. Together, these domains represent a continuum of engagement in anti-bias, multicultural and social justice education. The IDJA domains are based on Louise Derman-Sparks' four goals for anti-bias education in early childhood.

Each of the IDJA domains has learning outcomes and school-based scenarios organized by grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.

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Get your reading workshop ready to go with this free collection of ideas and resources.

This is a free collection of ideas and resources from The Curriculum Corner.

If you are new to reading workshop or just on the lookout for new materials, we have created a guide to help you get started.

Welcome to The Curriculum Corner!

We are so happy you stopped by to learn more about getting started with your reading workshop.

If you are new to our site, welcome! We are so glad you found us.

Everything you find on our site is created by us, Jill and Cathy.

We are two teachers who created this site in hopes of providing free, quality resources for teachers. As teachers, we all know we don't make enough to be constantly buying the newest and trendiest resources!

We often receive questions from new teachers or teachers who are looking at testing out a workshop approach in their classroom. On our site we have a variety of resources to help with this but if you are new to reading workshop, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. For this reason, we have put together this guide to help you get started.

We have included links to the coordinating resources on our site (all free) when appropriate.

Click on the dark blue text below to be taken to each free resource.

What is Reader's Workshop?

First of all, it is important to know what reading workshop is. Below is a short description of what workshop looks like in many classrooms. Time frames can vary depending on your school and expectations.

Reading Mini-Lesson - A true reading workshop begins with a 5 to 15 minute mini-lesson. This mini-lesson focuses on a specific concept or skill. Sometimes you might reference a read aloud. Often, it is a good idea to read this book before the lesson. Maybe as a time filler the day before as you are waiting on dismissal. You don't want the whole mini-lesson to be your read aloud. This allows the students to enjoy the story before being asked to focus on a specific concept or purpose.

Independent Reading and Teacher Conferencing - Following the mini-lesson, students move to self-selected or independent reading. During this time students should be given a task to complete. The idea is for them to have the opportunity to practice the skill taught in the mini-lesson. They should not be spending the entire time writing instead of reading. Think simple! Maybe a post-it note response or an exit ticket. As students read independently and practice the new skill, the teacher conferences with individual students. (You will find conferencing forms in our reading management binder - link below.)

Lesson Wrap-Up - At the conclusion of independent reading, the class returns to a meeting spot. Here they will review the lesson and discuss what students did to practice a new skill on their own.

Literacy Centers - In our classrooms, we then immediately follow Reader's Workshop with our Literacy Centers. This is the time where students can complete Word Work, Vocabulary & Comprehension Building Activities or other reading skills practice. It is also the time that we meet with our small leveled guided reading groups.

Now that you have an idea what your reading block will look like, it is time to think organization. We have a collection of binders that fit well into a workshop approach.
Click here for our free binder: Reading Management Binder
This binder contains an assortment of planning forms to be used in your reading workshop. You will also find some forms to track classroom data. There are an assortment of reading conferencing forms.

Our Reading Conference Guide is a good addition to the conference forms you will find within the binder.

Part of an effective reading workshop is tracking student growth. We like to have students involved in the process.

Our Editable Student Data Binder can help with this.

If you are looking to implement a Reader's Notebook, this post contains growth tracking, goal setting and a variety of response pages.

It feels like the first week back to school is always filled with assessment after assessment as you start to get to know your students. One assessment we like to include (depending on your grade level and students) is a Fry Word check.

We use these Fry Word Progress Lists to track growth. If you aren't sure what to do with the information you have gathered, this quick video on Creating Fry Word Stacks might be helpful.

Additional Fry Word activities are available within our Fry Resource Collection.

Getting your students reading for your reading workshop requires a focus on teaching classroom procedures and expectations. Use our Launching Reading Workshop Unit of Study or try our Growing Readers Launching Unit of Study with a garden theme. It includes mini-lessons, anchor charts, graphic organizers and other resources that will be needed to get your workshop going.

One of the challenges teachers often face when beginning their workshop is how to wisely use small group instruction time with your students. We have created a Small Group Toolkit that is designed all you need to get effective instruction time started. Included are resources for fluency practice, word work, comprehension and more.

In upper grades, you may be looking to try . This post contains resources planning pages for you, anchor charts and printable pages for students.

We have a large collection of graphic organizers designed to meet standards for each grade level and area of focus in reading:

Literature for Kindergarten Informational Text for Kindergarten

Literature for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Informational Text for 1st, 2nd and 3rd

Literature for 4th and 5th Informational Text for 4th and 5th

Other complete reading units of study that are written to fit into a workshop approach can be found below:
Reading Informational Text Unit of Study for Primary Classrooms Reading Biographies Unit of Study for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grades Biographies Collection for 4th and 5th Grades
Responding to Reading: Helping children construct short answer responses

Close Reading Collection (text structures, thick & thin questions, making connections, THIEVES plus additional resources)
Elements of Literature Unit of Study for 1st - 3rd Grades Character Traits Unit of Study for 1st - 3rd Grades Character Traits for 4th and 5th Grades Retelling Unit of Study for Kindergarten Fairy Tale Unit of Study for 1st - 3rd Grades Point of View Mini-Unit for 4th and 5th Grades
If you would prefer a collection of anchor charts to put together your own mini-lessons, we also have a Reading Anchor Chart Collection.

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Home / Our Series - K-2 Reading

The new primary Units of Study in Reading offer teachers concrete ways to bring the best of science of reading research-including explicit teaching of 'slider power,' engaging decodable texts, and an emphasis on knowledge generation-into vibrant workshop classrooms.

Please Note: Some components are only sold separately, outside of the core unit kits.

Decodable Books Overview

The Jump Rope Readers series consists of sixty-six high-interest decodable books, and six accompanying read-alouds that are just right for kids who are learning how to read. The titles in this series gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction. Jump Rope Readers are engaging and meaningful books that help beginning readers develop their foundational word recognition skills.

Digital Content Overview

Online Resources (included with the core units sets) offer digital access to:

anchor charts

assessment tools

demonstration texts

small group and conferring tools

instructional videos

Spanish-language video introductions for every session across all units

Spanish translations of teaching points, anchor charts, and assessment resources

Premium Digital Content (available by subscription as an optional purchase to users of the core units sets) includes:

videos of staff developers teaching all minilessons (ideal for teacher professional learning and for remote teaching)

digital access to all of the books in the core units set

Both the Online Resources included with every core set and the Premium Digital Subscriptions for the new units will be hosted on a brand-new platform that will organize digital content all in one place and allow administrators to monitor and manage teachers' access.
Check back for more information about the new platform.
The minilesson videos in the Premium Digital Subscriptions for grades K-2 are designed to serve as valuable exemplars for effective, concise, and engaging minilessons, exemplars that can help teachers lift the level of their teaching. Each minilesson is modeled by a TCRWP staff developer and can serve as powerful professional learning for individual teachers and for teams as they plan instruction. Additionally, teachers may share these videos directly with students to support remote teaching.

Ordering Information

The online ordering links below list all the purchasing options for the new K-2 Reading Units of Study. Be sure to reach out to your local Heinemann sales rep for guidance with purchasing.

Contact Your Rep

New K-2 Reading Units

Required Trade Book Packs (English)

Related Resources

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Math Flips are flashcards with a problem on the front and a similar problem on the back (instead of a problem and an answer) to encourage relational thinking rather than answer-getting.

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This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!

Which One Doesn't Belong?

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Math.K.CC.B.4

Common core State Standards

Math: Math

K: Kindergarten

CC: Counting & Cardinality

B: Count to tell the number of objects

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Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

b. Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

c. Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

Download Common Core State Standards (PDF 1.2 MB)

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Thought starters

1. How does Ms. Gaxiola use counting collections to help students build an understanding of addition and subtraction?

2. What differentiation strategies does Ms. Gaxiola use?

3. How could you make counting collections a part of your classroom routine?

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Math.K.CC.B.4 Common core State Standards Math: Math K: Kindergarten CC: Counting & Cardinality B: Count to tell the number of objects 4: Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

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They're back! Last time they were on, our guests Aija Simmons, Sara Rizik-Baer, and Savitha Moorthy were in the early days of piloting Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors, a community-focused effort from Tandem, Partners in Early Learning that uses children's books as resources to expand the capacity of families with young children engage in critical conversations about diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Now that they have completed the pilot program, they're back to share what worked, what didn't, what they've learned, and the important questions that remain. We think that their experience can helpfully inform the work many of us do with the young ones in our lives. Learn about the strategies this group of teachers and parents have developed for reading race in pictures books with preschoolers.
The transcript of this conversation will be posted here soon.

Resources

Tandem's Book Resources - Find here an overview of Tandem's book collection, and book resources aplenty, including a storytime video playlist categorized by language, theme, or by skill-building focus. Also check out the first of their booklists (more to come):

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NEWLY ADDED: MATH MODELING WITH CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS (GRADE 3-5 TASKS): https://bit.ly/ElementaryMathModelingTasks

Illustrative Mathematics (K-5 Problem-Based Tasks):

https://www.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards

NC Department of Public Instruction Elementary Math K-2 (CGI Worthy Problem-Based Tasks):
http://tools4ncteachers.com/
NC Department of Public Instruction Elementary Math 3-5 (CGI Worthy Problem-Based Tasks):
http://tools4ncteachers.com/
Math Modeling with Three Act Tasks:

https://gfletchy.com/3-act-lessons/
NEWLY ADDED: Institute for Learning Tasks (IFL) created for Common Core Math Standards:
https://www.edutoolbox.org/tntools/menu/grade/819/6128

NEWLY ADDED: K-8 Math Milestones by Student Achievement Partners:

& https://www.mathmilestones.org/ https://bit.ly/SAPMathMilestones (easy access by grade level)
UCLA Center X Math Project:
Early Childhood (EEC-K): https://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/math-project/early-childhood/

Elementary: https://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/math-project/elementary/

DREME (Development and Research in Early Math Education):
https://dreme.stanford.edu/CGI Math Teacher Learning Center: https://www.cgimath-tlc.org/Project for Elementary Mathematics:
https://www.projectmath.net/
Teaching Is Problem Solving:
https://teachingisproblemsolving.org/
Transforming the Task with Number Choice & Contexts That Connect to the Lives and Experiences of Your Children http://bit.ly/TransformingTaskwNumberChoice CGI Problem Solving Task Form Templates
CGI RELATED ARTICLES for Professional Learning Communities (PLCs):
Articles by Math Leaders about the Issues of Teaching Standard Algorithms Teaching Standard Algorithms Articles Basic Background for CGI Teachers
CGI and Related Topic Articles
Article about Teacher's Role in CGI Classroom Teacher's Role in CGI Classroom What's Next Fact Fluency, Multi-digit Word Problems, Place Value Concepts, & Fractions Collaborative Inquiry Stories of CGI Teachers (Suggested for Reading and Discussion in Teacher Team PLCs)
NUMBER SENSE & REASONING ROUTINE WEBSITES

Number Strings: A Community for Number String Design: https://numberstrings.com/

Same or Different: https://samedifferentimages.wordpress.com/

Which One Does Not Belong: http://wodb.ca/

Number Talk Images: http://ntimages.weebly.com/ & https://kristenacosta.com/number-talk-images/

Would You Rather?: https://www.wouldyourathermath.com/

Visual Patterns: https://buildingmathematicians.wordpress.com/visual-patterns/

Berkeley Everett Math Visuals & Number Sense Routines: https://mathvisuals.wordpress.com/ & Number Sense Routine Resources

Math Learning Center: Math at Home (Which One Doesn't Belong, How Many?, Today's Number, Same Different): https://mathathome.mathlearningcenter.org/search

Splat! for Elementary Teachers:

Steve Wyborney Site: https://stevewyborney.com/2018/09/splat-for-google-slides-40-lessons/

Organized Splat Resources Curated by Jamie Garner: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q_8j1rILDWxBeRrpef95D9fbj2h_np1-sGsHKI-PQLU/mobilebasic

Choral Counting: Creative Math Choral Counting Planner & Choral Counting Tool (You need to create an account to access. Once you see a description of the tool click on BEGIN CHORAL COUNTING to use the tool)

Teacher Education by Design (TEDD.org): CGI Math Warmups (Mental Math (Number Talks), Number Strings, True-False Sentences, Quick Images, Choral Counting, Counting Collection): TEDD.org: Elementary Math

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Mathematics / Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) Math TK-6 Teaching & Learning Resources

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NEWLY ADDED: MATH MODELING WITH CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS (GRADE 3-5 TASKS): https://bit.ly/ElementaryMathModelingTasks Illustrative Mathematics (K-5 Problem-Based Tasks): https://www.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards NC Department of Public Instruction Elementary Math K-2 (CGI Worthy Problem-Based Tasks): http://tools4ncteachers.com/ NC Department of Public Instruction Elementary Math 3-5 (CGI Worthy Problem-Based Tasks): http://tools4ncteachers.com/ Math Modeling with Three Act