Check out this incredible project that is inspired by Shark Tank. Included in this large packet, you will find directions for the teacher, directions for the students, challenge sheet with an explanation hook, templates for each stage of the invention and advertisement process and a clear rubric to convey expectation. Presented in a fun and student-friendly format, students will create an invention, whether real or not, will discuss the need for the invention and then create an advertisement to hook buyers. It is intended to take five days, with clear expectations for each day, as each lesson scaffolds on the next. Students will love applying their learned concepts of supply and demand, needs and wants, and helping people make their lives easier through their inventions. One of our favorites :)

Add a level of accountability to your group work by simply infusing this student friendly assessment each time. With up to five peers, (or four if you want to including students reflecting on themselves) students will evaluate their peers in four key areas. Each area has a 1, 2, and 3 totaling a possibility of a max of 12 for each partner. These areas include participation, behavior, on task, and work. This is a great way for the students to feel responsible for their actions as well as for the teacher to gain insight into each student's contribution.

Check out this graphic organizer that students of any age can use to facilitate their note taking. This skill is one that students often lack direct instruction on, and this clear and student-friendly format is mimicked after the Cornell note-taking format. Separated into clear sections for topic, notes, questions and summary, this worksheet will push students to being extremely purposeful with their note-taking while streamlining their thoughts. This template also comes in different formats to best meet the needs of your students. Be sure to check out our alternative versions as well!

Check out this fun and engaging template that will promote social and emotional positivity in your classroom. With the idea of paying it forward, this worksheet presents 16 options for students to good things in their school and community. These things include helping clean up, sharing snacks, leaving a nice note and many more. There is also a spot for students to fill in their own idea! This is a great way to engage students in being good citizens in their community and spreading positivity! Students can check off the tasks they complete and create a record of all of the great things they have done for others!

Being transparent with students on the standard of assessment and grades is a great way to implement high expectations as well as set them up to be successful. This rubric includes four major components of oral fluency in any regard, whether it be an oral presentation, reading, group work or any other context. These components include expression and volume, phrasing, smoothness, and pace. Each component includes a possibility of four points totaling 16 points total. That number can then be multiplied by 6.25 to place it out of 100. This is a great way to hold your students accountable and document assessment to allow for reflection and improvement and a skill that is highly necessary and often neglected.

Check out this awesome template that can easily be infused in your classroom to promote critical thinking, goal setting, and reflection. This can easily be adapted for any subject, grade, age, or ability. Students set their own goal for each day. At the end of the day they either reflect based on the three emojis or on the higher level templates by elaborating with an explanation. John Hatties has ample research out there that points to the importance of students knowing where they are coming from and where they are going. This is great way to transfer accountability and responsibility to the students! Let us know how your implementation goes!

Check out this amazing behavior tracking form that is meant to be a progress monitoring system that adds to your pre-existing system. This is based off of a simple three color system (red, green, yellow) in which one of the colors is checked for each day. its the ability to create documentation quickly on up to 20 students, this system clearly identifies the color level for each student for 5 days. Fill out one of these a week, and you can start seeing patterns and apply intervention. Additionally, there is a key at the bottom that annotates why the student received a yellow or green such as calling out, missing homework, cheating, and so much more!

Take your behavior management to the next level by transferring the responsibility onto the students to reflect on their own conduct for the day. This simple and well-organized packet has one designated sheet for each month. Within the month you will find four weeks. The students give themselves a letter or number grade for the day and then a rationale for their grade. This kind either be private for the students or shared with teachers and parents. This reflection is used to promote ownership and accountability. It can be used per subject or per day.

Expedite getting to know your students through this self-reflective process of thinking through strengths and weaknesses. Separated into four color-coded sections, this inventory looks into academics, morals, social components, and future potential. Presented in a likert scale format, students will choose from four responses for each prompt that is either a smiley face, frowning face, straight face or a question mark. This is a great way to promote ownership over strengths and weaknesses as well as offer valuable insight into your students on the front end. Be sure to check out other get to know you surveys as well!

Check out this awesome graphic organizer that can be used to facilitate your conversation roundtables. Set up to support a conversation between four people. It is clearly labeled and structured with colors to help students organize their thoughts, ideas, and conversations. Embedded in the template is a section for the topic, essential question, notes from peers, and summary. This template is presented in a variety of formats to best fit students' needs including blank space, lines, bullets and more. Be sure to check out our other templates including our version 2 that is set up for different sized groups!

Check out this fun system that can take your classroom culture to the next level. Holding students accountable in the classroom and ensuring participating, is so important. Providing wait time and secondary wait time pushes students to think and talk. This sytem provides an out, or life line if students don't know the answer. They can either phone a friend, get help from a group, or get support for the teacher. These cards are phsyical and are distributed to each students (3 total) per month. They can be rewarded if they don't use their cards, but alos feel safe not knowing the answer. Directions and templates are included, but please adjust accordingly to fit into your other classroom systems and procedures! Have fun!

Promote problem solving and positive self image with this template. While pushing students to reflect on their feelings and actions, this form is broken into three main parts. The first component has students make a promise for what they are going to do if someone hurts their feeling. The second part prompts them to think through the importance of talking about their feelings. This is heavily aligned to Conscious Discipline and communicating feelings. The third component has student think through why they know they are great. Ending with a signature, this is a great way to be proactive for problem solving behaviors and feelings!

Check out this simple and student friendly behavior reflection form. This is meant to be implemented daily, which allows students to think through their day, reflect on wha they did well, and plan for the next day. Each of the simple questions is presented with a simple frowning fact, straight face, and smiling face. There are also three questions at the bottom. This serves as a great documentation form but also a meaningful way to push students to think critically about their behavior! Be sure to check out our other behavior tracking and reflection forms as well!

Check out this differentiated variety pack that transfers the ownership of learning to the student. Supplement your class-wide KWL chart to having students keep their own KWL template that they can track their own learning. This pack include 5 different formats which include alternative spacing, bullets, open spacing and more. This can easily be used with different grade levels and can be implemented seamlessly to meet individual student needs. Be sure to check out my alternative KWL templates as well!

Take your classroom communication to the next level with these accountability posters that pushes your students to challenge each others thoughts and ideas in a respectful and responsible way. Whether it be adding on to thinking, pushing back against ideas, questions understandings, or echoing and summarizing thoughts, these posters can do wonders for the oral communication development for all grade levels. Whether they are printed and laminated, hung around the room, or the mini versions attached are distributed to children, accountable talk posters will turn your classroom into a bunch of higher level thinking and talkers!

Check out this simple and student friendly form that serves as a great independent facilitator for problem solving, venting, reflection and so much more. This is meant to be used for students who break a classroom rule. This form allows them to decompress and think through what they did and why. It includes a component for their feelings so they feel validated as well as a next steps section. This serves as a great reference and documentation for the teacher will seamlessly promoting positive behavior for your students at an independent level.

Check out this fun and simple template for star student. This can be used weekly, monthly quarterly or whatever fits you and your classroom. Separated into seven sections, this poster can be converted to a poster, used on a bulletin board, or made copies of after filled out and distributed to the students. The various boxes prompt students to talk about themselves and offer insight for their peers. it serves as a great way to incentives and reward kids, and can seamlessly be implemented in your classroom!

Facilitate students’ reflection on misbehavior with this organized flowchart template. Students are prompted to reflect and identify the reason for their behavior, the description of what the behavior is and what are the consequences of the behavior in class. There are then lines to describe the next steps plan for improvement as well as lines for the student, teacher and parent. This is a great way to transfer ownership of the misbehavior to the student as well as equip them with the skills to problem-solve said behaviors.

Check out this fun and creative way to diversify methods of studying. This printable cube can be cut and glued or taped together to make a large die-style template. With size sides, students can put vocabulary words on each side, topics on each side, facts and more. This interactive cube has so many possibilities but will be fun and engaging regardless. Let us know what you end up doing with it :)