Fresh Ideas for Creative Teaching
Have you heard of Knowledge Bound? Knowledge Bound is a teacher supply store located in Windsor, Colorado. I get to check out Knowledge Bound next month when I travel to Colorado to create a special “Imagination Station” in a section of their store. I’ve never been to Colorado before, so I am really excited! [...]
The month of May brings lots and lots of flowers! This is the perfect time to create beautiful bulletin board displays and projects with bright and happy blooms! Creative Teaching Press created the prettiest flower cut-outs in 6 inch and 10 inch sizes to make classroom decorating easy and fun! #5886 AND #5883 Add your [...]
Have you seen CTP’s new magnet books yet? We took some of these to IRA with us and they received a ton of attention from teachers! I thought it would be a good idea to give you a little magnet book lesson, so you can see how cool these little books are! I created several [...]
I just returned home from my trip to IRA in San Antonio! WOW!!! What an amazing week! I’ve never been to Texas before and enjoyed every minute of it. The weather was wonderful and there was just so much to do. Our hotel was located by the famous River Walk, so every night we would [...]
If you haven’t figured it out, I usually blog for Inspired In Style on Sunday nights. Instead of showing you a teacher or decorating tip, I decided to go personal on the blog tonight. I bet some of you wonder what I actually do for Creative Teaching Press! I thought tonight might be a great [...]
Creating a coordinated and organized classroom is all the rage in “teacher world.” From experience, I was always on the lookout for great storage solutions and items that would keep my room looking neat and tidy. How many of you purchase tubs to hold all of your “school stuff”? I know that when I was [...]
Adding curtains to your classroom is that extra special touch that pulls a coordinated classroom together. From experience, I know that teachers do not have an unlimited budget to create all of that cuteness that they would like to. Buying fabric AND then sewing the curtains can sometimes be the LAST thing you are thinking [...]
If you follow both my Schoolgirl Style blog and this blog, you know by now that I love coming up with creative ways to decorate classrooms. Since I know that teachers are always looking for storage solutions, I came up with the idea to use soup cans as classroom decor! SOUP CANS?!? It really can’t [...]
As a 4th grade teacher, the writing process is an important part of Abby Merrill’s daily curriculum. Abby created this super cute way to track student’s writing progress by using CTP’s library pockets. Abby created a visual display to track where her students are at in the writing process by using color coded 1 inch [...]
A Word Wall is so important in the lower elementary classroom. When I was designing Erin’s Stick Kids classroom, we knew that we needed to find a wall that would be perfect to display all of the words the children would be learning throughout the school year. The Word Wall needed to be close to [...]
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