As the summer season approaches, we gather with family and friends to enjoy more of the things we love, it’s important to teach the young learners in our lives the importance of counting our blessings.
Activities like gratitude journals, joy jars, and thank-you notes are all wonderful classroom activities. But one of the most powerful ways to create a grateful classroom is for teachers to simply live with gratitude. Here are four easy ways that teachers can integrate a grateful mind-set into their teaching that’s perfect for inside and outside the classroom during summer break.
Makers create, tinker with old technology, and invent new things. It's do-it-yourself at its best. Maker teachers inspire their students to dream up their own inventions, experiment, fail and experiment again until they've made something personally meaningful. Maker education is a combination of hands-on learning and project-based learning. —USC Rossier’s Guide to Maker Education
Kendall Hunt is a proud platinum sponsor of the 2023 Educators’ Convention. We cannot wait to talk face-to-face with teachers and educators to learn more about their experiences using their customized faith-based programs and what we could do or help to provide in order to make their 2023-2024 school year the best it can be!
“Kendall Hunt has long enjoyed working with the NAD Office of Education and look forward to continuing to provide the right resources for teachers and students alike” says K-12 Vice President Charley Cook.
“Build it and YOU Have Come!” became the mantra for the 2023 Educators’ Convention in Phoenix AZ on August 6-10th where over 6,000 educators merged to discover Something Better on their Journey to Excellence in Education. The setting was perfect and the positive buzz throughout the convention center was so contagious, that one didn’t even notice the 104 degrees plus temperatures outside…it was dry heat!
This time of year, we make plans for the late fall and winter seasons and there is no better time to inspire and introduce your students to the positive benefits of journaling. Overall, journaling can be a valuable tool for personal development and academic success in school-age children.
