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Safety Corner vs. Calming Corner: What's the Difference?
A Calming Corner and a Safety Corner sit on the same supply list and get mistaken for the same idea. They are not. Here is what each one actually teaches, why a...
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Safety Corner Ideas: How to Set Up and Decorate
A safety corner is one small patch of wall that does a specific job, and most of them fail for layout reasons rather than...
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How to Teach Kids Personal Safety Without Scaring Them
The safety talk most of us grew up with was one sentence long and it was the wrong sentence. Here is what pediatric and...
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Geography Map Wall Setup Ideas for Classrooms
A layout guide for the classroom map wall: how world, US and continent maps compose against each other, testing readability from the furthest seat,...
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History Classroom Setup Ideas: Build a Timeline Wall
A build guide for the history wall: reserving one unbroken horizontal run before anything else claims it, keeping the founding documents as a separate...
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Classroom Setup Ideas: A Wall by Wall Plan
A practical layout guide for setting up a classroom: giving each wall a job, hanging at student eye level instead of adult eye level,...
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How to Teach Kids the 50 States and Capitals
Fifty states and fifty capitals is a big pile of facts, and the usual approach of working alphabetically makes it harder than it needs...
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Newborn Feeding Schedule: How Often and How Much
Newborn feeding runs on cues more than on a clock, which is disorienting when you are exhausted and trying to work out whether anything...
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Country Study for Kids: A Repeatable 5-Day Plan
A country study is one of the few geography formats that works at almost any age and never runs out of material. Here is...
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