Sharpening The Minds

Tired of the awkward first day back after winter break when students can’t settle in or focus on writing? This fun Winter Break Selfie activity gives you an easy, high-engagement way to ease back into routines while getting meaningful writing from every student. These editable winter break writing templates and phone craft pages make the perfect low prep activity for any elementary classroom. What’s Included Full page and half page selfie templates Big line and small line writing pages Multiple

Struggling to find a meaningful 100th Day activity for upper elementary that isn’t too babyish? This 5th-grade math challenge adds a surprising twist students love while helping them practice real problem-solving, modeling, and place value thinking. This editable resource guides students through discovering how many total days of school they’ve actually completed by the 100th day of 5th grade, 1,000! Yes, with 180 days Kindergarten through 4th grade (900) and another (100) for 5th grade, 5th gra

Tired of end-of-year math review worksheets that students aren’t excited about? Turn your review into a hands-on, engaging math board game project where students create their own board game while reviewing key math skills in a fun and meaningful way.This low-prep create your own math game activity is perfect for the last weeks of school, post-testing days, or anytime you want students to create board games that keep them thinking, creating, collaborating, and reviewing standards without the usua

Teaching adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators can feel overwhelming for students when they jump straight to the algorithm. This unit helps students make sense of the math first modeling fraction before transitioning to the standard algorithm. This complete model-based unit walks students through fraction bars, area models, and then the standard algorithm for both adding and subtracting unlike fractions. Each strategy is explicitly modeled, practiced, and reinforced so studen

Looking for an easy way to stay visible and connected with teachers all year?This Instructional Coaching Newsletter Toolkit includes editable monthly templates designed to help instructional coaches, academic coaches, and teacher leaders communicate clearly and consistently with staff.Stop staring at a blank page. These low-prep Canva newsletter templates give you built-in prompts, examples, and structured sections so you can quickly share coaching updates, instructional strategies, and staff hi

Struggling to help students understand what’s really happening when multiplying decimals? This teaching uni makes decimal multiplication visual using three clear, student friendly models. This Canva-editable resource includes a teacher slide deck, student practice pages, and answer keys to support instruction, small groups, and intervention in upper elementary math.Each model includes a guided example, a “Your Turn” problem, and independent practice, making it easy to support gradual release. Th

Take the guesswork out of coaching with a structured, yearlong system of ready-to-use tools designed to keep you organized, focused, and consistent from start to finish.Whether you're a new instructional coach or a seasoned leader looking to streamline your work, this all-in-one bundle gives you everything you need to plan, support, and sustain impactful coaching across the entire school year. With built-in phases, differentiated coaching cycles, and monthly systems, you’ll always know what to d

Save time and strengthen your impact with this Instructional Coaching Growing Bundle! Designed for instructional coaches, this editable collection includes ready-to-use tools, templates, and activities to help you build relationships, plan with purpose, support teachers, and reflect across the entire school year. Includes over 160 editable coaching pages across 14 resources (and growing!)Here's what’s included:Coaching Cycles & Teacher Support ✔️ Core Coaching Cycle Toolkit ✔️ Student-Centered

Want to make an impactful coaching impression but don't know where to start? Discover the power of an Instructional Coaching Toolkit to help you build relationships, establish visibility, and support teachers at any point in the year with this staff-facing bundle.This low-prep + editable toolkit features a clean, professional black & white design that prints beautifully and fits any school setting. While most pages are ready to use, some require customization. All pages are fully Canva editable!

Need a quick way to review fraction equations? This hands on fraction activity is a great fraction review! This is a set of 24 fraction problem task cards cover all operations of fractions. They are printable, ready to use task cards are a wonderful fraction operation review, test prep, or beginning of 6th grade review/assessment. Add them to your math centers, small groups, for a problem of the day, or even a fraction exit ticket.What's Included:⭐24 cards total cards ⭐Adding and Subtracting fra

Unlock your potential as an instructional coach with this comprehensive Instructional Coach Starter Kit. Featuring no-prep and editable coaching forms and teacher observation templates, that can be organized into a binder, this resource helps you cultivate strong teacher relationships and streamline your coaching process throughout the year.This resource includes over 20 printable and editable templates, like a coaching menu editable template guide, organized into three coaching phases: Start S

Support your coaching all year long with this Instructional Coaching Toolkit Bundle designed for instructional coaches, academic coaches, and teacher leaders. This ready-to-use bundle includes beginning of year coaching tools, midyear reset activities, and end of year reflection resources to help you stay organized, build strong teacher relationships, and keep coaching cycles focused on impact.With over 20 editable, low-prep templates, you’ll have everything you need to plan, communicate, reflec

Are you struggling to set up and facilitate coaching cycles with your teachers? Save time, energy with these no-prep, easy to implement coaching forms. These 4 complete sets cover coaching teachers at every stage in their career. Build teacher portfolios with a hands on professional development.This bundle includes 4 complete toolkits: Core, New Teacher, Veteran Teacher, and Student-Centered. Guide intentional, empowering coaching cycles through clear stages, guided prompts, and unique “lenses”

Are you struggling to set up and facilitate coaching cycles with your teachers? Save time, energy with these no-prep, easy to implement coaching forms. This Toolkit gives you everything you need to support teachers through a complete coaching cycle, all in one organized no-prep resource. Also comes with a fully editable option! Designed with six clear stages, this toolkit is ready to use, keeps you focused, consistent, and intentional from start to finish. Here’s what’s included:6 coaching cycle

Need an organized way to spiral math concepts your students have learned all year? This 8 week collection of math spiral sheets helps 5th Graders practice and review all 5th grade math skills. These no prep spiral sheet have a column for each day (Monday-Thursday) and each week covers all standard domains. Every printable has an answer key included! You can use these for homework, morning work, or small group review! This product is perfect to spiral math skills and review each week. What's Inc

Boost staff morale all year long with this seasonal “Pass the…” Staff Appreciation Bundle, a collection of fun, low-prep team-building activities designed to celebrate educators and build positive school culture from fall through spring.Inspired by staff morale boosts like You’ve Been Booed and Secret Santa, each themed kit encourages collaboration, appreciation, and connection among teachers and staff. These print-and-go, editable activities make it easy to spread kindness, recognize hard wor

Looking for a simple way to stay visible and support teachers all year long? This Instructional Coaching Menu Toolkit includes done-for-you monthly templates that make it easy to offer consistent, meaningful support without spending time planning what to say or do.Designed for instructional coaches, academic coaches, and teacher leaders, these print-and-go coaching menus give you a clear, structured way to share coaching options, highlight support, and stay connected with staff each month. Just

Looking for support with strong, inclusive Tier 1 instruction but don't know where to start? This all-in-one Tier 1 Instruction Toolkit is packed with low-prep instructional coaching tools, teacher planning templates, student engagement strategies, and data tracking forms designed to strengthen high-quality core instruction.Perfect for teachers, instructional coaches, PLC teams, and school leaders, this editable teacher binder helps support lesson planning, student participation, differentiated

Build stronger, more organized PLC meetings with this PLC Toolkit Growing Bundle. Designed for instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and administrators, this collection of editable tools helps PLC team data meetings, teams plan meetings, analyze data, track collaboration, and stay focused on student learning.This growing bundle includes multiple PLC resources that support every stage of collaboration, from planning meetings to leading discussions and organizing team goals. As new PLC tools

This 5th Grade Fractions Unit builds strong fraction understanding through mixed numbers, improper fractions, equivalent fractions, simplifying, benchmark reasoning, and comparing and ordering fractions. Designed as a complete 10-day unit, it’s perfect for review, intervention, or building foundations before fraction operations.This unit uses a consistent daily routine to help students develop conceptual fraction sense, not just procedures. It works well for 5th grade whole-group instruction, in