When I moved from teaching second grade down to kindergarten, I felt completely out of my depth, Niepodam.
So I leaned hard on my new teaching partner. She'd been teaching for more than 30 years, and was a legend at our school.
She'd mastered everything from the reading lessons to the behavior management.
She even taught a room full of five-year-olds to use the automatic-flush toilets without being scared of them.
I called it my ultimate PhD in teaching. If she could get kindergartners to trust a toilet that flushed all by itself, I figured she could teach me anything.
But the most important thing she taught me was that you don't have to figure it all out alone.
I think about that every time a teacher tells me she's tried to run literacy centers before and watched them fall apart.
Maybe you know exactly what that looks like…
The listening center turns into a tangle of headphone cords by Tuesday.
One group finishes their sight word game in three minutes and starts wandering the room.
Two kids start arguing over whose turn it is, and they need you right now.
And the kids at your small group table get about half of the lesson you planned.
That isn't a YOU problem, and it isn't your class. It’s a SYSTEM problem.
You were handed the idea of centers, but nobody ever showed you how to set them up so they actually run on their own.
Supercharge Your Small Groups is me pulling up a chair next to you.
It's a FREE 30-minute training with 5 simple tweaks that make your centers run smoothly, so the small group sitting in front of you finally gets your full attention.
You can watch it on your lunch break or on the couch tonight. Pick one tweak, and try it tomorrow morning.
You get a plan you don't have to invent, and your kids get centers they can actually run without you.
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