Ignite Your Teaching
A podcast to help inspire elementary teachers to improve their pedagogy, simplify their systems, and find time-saving tools for their classrooms.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 136
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
174: Keeping Science Interesting with Simple Experiments
Are you having fun in your science classroom yet? You should be!
Science is supposed to be full of problem-solving, exploration and discovery. Yet too often we simply skip all that i…
173: Inquiry Can Be Simple
Sometimes when teachers think of using inquiry in their classroom they think of the most impossible situation. Something that most teachers would struggle to accomplish.
But Inquiry …
172: Strategies for Teaching a Split Grade
Hello, hello!
I wanted to share with you a little about my time teaching split grades (which has been the majority of my teaching career!). Unlike probably the majority of teachers I …
171: Leveling Up Your Science and Social Studies Programs
Hello, hello!
Today I wanted to share some ideas about leveling up your science and social studies lessons using four different methods!
Let’s get to it.
These subjects can be two…
EP 170 - Differentiating With Your ELL Students
Hello, hello!
Let’s talk today about differentiating. Specifically with ELL students. We’re gonna look at the planning, implementing, and assessing stages of your regular classroom and …
EP 169 - Windows, Mirrors, and Prisms
Hey, hey!
Today I wanted to talk a little about books.
Particularly picture books. Or really any material we are reading in our classroom.
My challenge for you is to think about fitting…
EP 168 - 3 Essential Ways You Can Use Choice Boards in the Classroom
Hello, hello! I hope everyone is having a fantastic week so far!
Sooo raise your hand if you use choice boards… 🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️ And if you hadn’t before the pandemic, chances are you’r…
EP 167 - Assessing Student’s Digital Work and How to Save Yourself Time
Hello, hello!
I hope you are all having a fantastic week so far! Today I wanted to talk a little about assessing student’s work in this digital world.
Most of us are probably mark…
EP 166 - 4 Strategies to Simplify Your Remote Teaching Journey
Hello, hello!
So, it looks like we’re in this whole remote teaching thing for the long haul. Whether that’s a month, two months, I’m not sure. But I don’t want you to wait a second lo…
EP 165 - Free and Cost-Effective Ways to Set Up Your Remote Classroom!
This week I want to talk all about your home teaching space! Because the reality is, I think we’re going to be doing this whole remote-teaching thing for just a little bit longer.
There…
Ep 164 - Work Smarter, Not Harder - How Remote Teachers Can Set Limits
Hi, Teachers!
I hope you’re having an awesome week so far. I wanted to talk to you today about setting realistic goals and aligning priorities.
For most of us, the new challenge in our …
Ep 163 - Just Teach! - 7 Tips to Help You Survive Remote Teaching
I hope you have all had an okay start back into the second half of the school year. Now, I know this is not what we signed up for. In fact, it is VERY different than what we signed up f…
EP 161- Student Teacher Writing Conferences: Why They Help & What To Cover!
I’m popping in today to talk all about student teacher writing conferences!
Whether you already have these one on one sessions with your students or not, I wanted to share the structu…
EP 159 - Literature Circles vs. Literature Centers - Which is Right for You?
Hi friends!
It seems to me that there are two distinct types of teachers. Those that use Literature Circles and those that use Literature Centers.
Now over my career, I’ve used both Lit…
EP 158 - Top 5 Time Saver Tips For Lesson Planning
Raise your hand if Lesson Planning feels like the biggest time thief. 🙋🏼♀️
Yes? Then boy am I glad I popped in your inbox. I know firsthand just how much time (not to mention stress) l…
EP 157- Madly Learning's Top 5 Teaching Tips
Today I wanted to take a little trip down memory lane. I’ve dug back through the Madly Learning Archives to gather the very BEST teaching advice for the junior grades.
So let’s jump rig…
EP 156 - Transforming Your Science Classroom in 5 Categories
Know something we don’t talk about much around here?
🧬🦠SCIENCE 🧫🧪
Science class is a time that can be SO much fun for our students.
But have you been busy just handing out worksheets? T…
EP 154 - Create An Emergency Supply Plan Binder
I want to start off this week with a quick story. Recently, my daughter woke up with a runny nose, congested, sore throat, and a sore stomach.
This meant she would not be going to schoo…
EP 153- An Introduction to AirTable
This week I wanted to tell you about a FREE program that I have been LOVING. I use it to track
student assessments and communicate with parents. 🥳
If you’ve ever thought of using spread…
EP 152 - Modifying and Accommodating for Students Reading At or Below Grade Levels
There are SO many factors that can impact our students and their ability to read.
The reality is, we may be teaching in Grade 5, but not every student is going to be at that Grade 5 rea…