Take a Minute: Daily Intentions

Daily Intentions

Question: How do you help students build good habits around goals?

By making small goal setting part of the everyday routine, teachers help students build the skills they need to achieve larger and longer-term objectives.

Take a Minute: Traverse Talk

Traverse Talk

Question: How do you teach kids to argue well?

This 60-second straregy demonstrates a  fun classroom activity that helps students find their voice by teaching the basics of debate in an accessible way.

Take a Minute: Community Circles

Community Circles

Question: How do you make sure every student feels seen and heard?

This 60-second strategy offers an opening and closing exercise where every student contributes to ensure that they all feel seen and heard in a classroom.

Take a Minute: Heat Warm-Ups

Heat Warm-Ups

Question: How do you differentiate warm-ups to support all learners?

In this 60-second strategy, differentiated levels of ‘heat’ mean every student starts class feeling both challenged and accomplished.

Take a Minute: Snowball Toss

Snowball Toss

Question: How do you get students to open up and connect?

This 60-second strategy offers a quick, fun classroom activity that fosters open dialogue while releasing pent-up energy.

Take a Minute: Teacher Queue

Teacher Queue

Question: How do you manage all the requests for help in a student-centered class?

This 60-second strategy offers an easy, fair way to manage multiple students' needs when they're working independently or in groups.

Take a Minute: Ask 3 Before Me

Ask 3 Before Me

Question: How do you teach kids to help themselves?

When students help each other in the classroom, they gain confidence and independence—and you get to keep on teaching. Check out this 60-Second Strategy below: