Vanlightenment

If you have a Harry Potter themed classroom- or even just really like Harry Potter- display your classroom expectations with these Educational Decrees! There are several pre-made decrees, along with a template you can use to make your own. If you download and enjoy, please make sure to leave a review!

This printable PDF has everything you need for a cute and simple Harry Potter inspired Bulletin Board- or you can do what I plan to do and use it as decoration for the outside of your classroom door! It centers around this great quote: "Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now- students. If they can do it, why not us?" I love this quote because is uses the Harry Potter theme to motivate students and help them see how capable they are of greatness! Your downlo

The concept of having a Growth as opposed to a Fixed Mindset is revolutionary. Our goal isn't just to teach tiny humans, it's to help them become amazing adults who believe they are capable of anything! Growth Mindset is so instrumental in helping students form the way they think and of course there's no better way to teach it than by using examples from Harry Potter! This printable includes 8 thinking habits for a Growth Mindset and a Harry Potter quote that coincides with each of them, all in

Download these posters for Black History Month, or download them for year 'round use, because Black History IS American History, and we shouldn't forget that until February of each year! Includes 12 posters, 11 with quotes from influential black figures throughout history.

This cute shirt design is what I'm going to be wearing for this year's open house before school starts, you should too! Or maybe wear it for the first day. Either way, it'll be a magical start to the school year! This design should work whether you decide to print it onto a t-shirt transfer or use a cricut. You'll get access to my google drive folder containing: A printable .pdf file with the t-shirt design. It says, "I solemnly swear it's going to be a magical year!"A link to my Canva template

If you're teaching AP World History and you're using PIECES to help your students understand the major themes they'll see throughout the course, this Harry Potter themed version is super cute! This printable includes each of the 6 themes, their descriptions and abbreviations, as well as illustrations and terms to help students understand what the themes entail, all in Hogwarts House colors!

This Harry Potter themed planner can help you stay organized, or at least give you the illusion of having your life together! The digital download includes a .pdf of the monthly calendar, week-at-a-glance, and daily planner pages I designed, all in Hogwarts House colors! I've left space on the side so that you can easily bind your pages together into a cohesive planner or leave them loose (I like to keep mine on a clipboard!).

Intended as an activity for Halloween - or just to introduce your students to the Age of Exploration and subsequent colonization - your product includes the link to a Canva slideshow that allows you or your students to click through 6 rooms in a Haunted House, each of which including a short synopsis of how a European country colonized as well as three clickable links hidden within the slide that lead to pages giving a brief account of how the image relates to one of the horrors of colonization!

Intended as an activity for Halloween (or just any time you're in the market for a ghost story!), this is a short story written to give students insight into the Oregon Trail. Your download will include a file with the story as well as a link to a Canva slideshow with slides for each section of the story (broken down for students that may need the story scaffolded) + speaker notes to tell the story if you are projecting the slides for your students. The story is intended for middle/high school a

This template can help keep your students organized while taking effective notes! Each Cornell Notes Organizer has text boxes that can be edited by the student when they save the file to their devices, or you can choose to print them! They look good printed in color or in greyscale, so don't worry about using up all your color ink. :) If you don't like the colors I used (huge Harry Potter fan, here), feel free to send me a message with your preferred colors and I'll make a new listing with upda

This template can help keep your students organized while giving them the responsibility and ownership of keeping a record of their own learning! Bellringers and Exit Tickets are side-by-side so that students (and teachers) can see where they started and where they ended in the lesson. Each organizer has text boxes that can be edited by the student when they save the file to their devices, or you can choose to print them! They look good printed in color or in greyscale, so don't worry about usin

Bring your classroom review game to life and keep students the ever-illusive ✨ ENGAGED✨ the entire time with Score Wars, the game I just made up out of necessity because let's be honest, keeping these kids off their phones and bought into an activity is HARD! Score Wars is a high-energy, mystery point competition that keeps student buy-in when other games lose them because they're losing. Why? They have no idea whether they're winning or not! This is perfect for middle and high school classro

Use this template all week to display your Standards-Based Agenda! The PowerPoint includes the following: Cover A Slide for your Unit StandardsA Slide for Weekly RemindersSlide with Clickable Links for Each Day5 Days with Learning Target, Success Criteria, Bellringer, Lesson, Assignment, and ClosingChecklist SlideMy district requires that we post our Standard, Learning Target, Success Criteria, Bellringer, Mini-Lesson, Work Session, and Closing on Canvas each day. This template allows you not on

Have You Seen this Wizard? Well, now you have! These printable posters feature 6 highly infamous historical figures (3 "wizards" and 3 "witches") in frames inspired by the popular "Have You Seen This Wizard" posters in Harry Potter! I have a Harry Potter themed classroom and I love integrating my subject- history - with my favorite series! I hope you'll enjoy these as well!

This "Chillin' with my Peeps" themed bulletin board set comes with a set of 10 differently colored peeps for student names or decoration, a collection of Easter eggs, an adorable boho rainbow in three different color sets, an Easter egg banner, flag banner, grass border, and "Just Chillin' with my Peeps" in colorful, cute fonts. Mix and match and make it your own!

Download and print everything you need for a cute springtime bulletin board! The theme is "April Showers Bring Mayflowers," so you'll get printable ocean, a Mayflower, raindrops, flowers, a sun and clouds, and of course the phrase in cute, colorful lettering that's easy to print, laminate, and cut! Additionally, I've also included colorful umbrellas and rain droplets that would be amazing for student names if you're in an elementary classroom! The product preview is my interpretation, but you'll

This is a great template for your opening slide! You can get your students ready for each day and all you need to do is click the text box for each element. If you don't like the colors I used (huge Harry Potter fan, here), feel free to send me a message with your preferred colors and I'll make a new listing with updated colors for you! I would love to create something for you that others might love!

This set includes 2 posters describing Primary and Secondary Sources. They are done in Hogwarts House colors and are Harry Potter themed! Each poster has the definition of the type of source, a list of the kinds of things that count as that kind of source, and three examples from the Harry Potter universe. They're super cute and designed to be printed as large anchor chart posters!

Graphic Organizers can be an essential piece of student understanding. They help visualize information which in turn aids students in processing and retaining it! This is especially important when your students are reading a piece of text on their own and trying to figure out what the author is arguing! This set is intended to help educators point their students toward the best Graphic Organizer to use for a given reading, but they can really be used at any level for any number of things! It als

Graphic Organizers can be an essential piece of student understanding. They help visualize information which in turn aids students in processing and retaining it! This is especially important when your students are reading a piece of text on their own and trying to figure out what the author is arguing! This set is intended to help educators point their students toward the best Graphic Organizer to use for a given reading, but they can really be used at any level for any number of things! It als