As common readers know, I’ve been doing the Classroom Q&A column over at Schooling Week for 13 years.

And I plan to proceed doing it for fairly a couple of extra years.

I’ve so many contributors now, although, that there actually isn’t house there for my annual thematic compilation posts, the place I gather hyperlinks to all of the posts on specific matters.

So, I’m beginning to do it right here as an alternative, and that is the eighth one.

Right this moment’s theme is on Greatest Methods To Start The Faculty 12 months:

Wish to Begin the 12 months off Proper? Lecturers Share Their Greatest Ideas
 

A contract, a biographical poem, identification portraits—among the some ways educators are partaking their college students from Day 1.

 
3 Educators Provide Their Greatest Concepts for Beginning the 12 months Off Proper

The primary two weeks of college may also help set the tone for all the pieces that can comply with.

Don’t Waste Educational Time on the Starting of the 12 months

Use these first weeks to explicitly educate listening, talking, and considering expertise that can assist construct relationships as effectively.

*Begin the 12 months With a ‘Major Focus’ on Relationship-Constructing

4 educators share concepts on easy methods to begin a pandemic-effect college yr, together with by organizing scavenger hunts and having college students share and write captions for his or her favourite photographs.

*Steps to Make Your College students Really feel Welcome This Fall

Three lecturers clarify how they will begin the COVID-19-affected new college yr, together with by sending movies or letters to college students earlier than lessons start.

*Classroom Actions to Begin Your On-line or Hybrid New 12 months Sturdy

Katie Hull Synieski and I share a ebook excerpt providing concepts on constructing relationships as our on-line or hybrid college yr begins, together with query starters and “show-and-tell” actions.

* Giving College students ‘a Place to Belong’ When Beginning a Faculty 12 months

Tricia Ebarvia, Maia Heyck-Merlin, Debbie Diller, Erik M. Francis, and Jennifer Orr write about their experiences and suggestions on this fourth and ultimate publish on methods to efficiently start a brand new college yr.

* Start the New Faculty 12 months With a Optimistic ‘Mindset’

Jen Schwanke, Kevin Scott, Pia Lindquist Wong, and Otis Kriegel present their concepts on good methods to start a brand new college yr.

* Beginning the New 12 months by ‘Constructing Relationships’

Jeryl-Ann Asaro, Anabel Gonzalez, Karen Nemeth, Kristina J. Doubet, Jessica A. Hockett, Stephen Lazar, and Timothy D. Walker contribute their concepts on the perfect methods to start a brand new college yr.

* Methods ‘to Launch a Profitable 12 months With College students’

Roxanna Elden, Dave Stuart Jr., Ekuwah Moses, Matt Wachel, Pam Allyn, and Kevin Parr supply recommendations on easy methods to begin a brand new college yr on the fitting foot.

* “A Good Starting Is Extra Than Half of the Complete”

Writer/educators Joanne Rooney, Harry and Rosemary Wong, and Peggy Campbell-Rush present their recommendations on easy methods to begin a brand new college yr effectively.

* Methods to Begin Off the New 12 months on a Optimistic Be aware

This publish is a special-guest response from writer and educator Julia Thompson.

* A number of Methods to Get the New 12 months Off to a Good Begin—Half One

Two of the perfect thinkers and writers on schooling points right this moment, Rick Wormeli and Roxanna Elden, reply to this situation.

* A number of Methods Lecturers & Mother and father Can Begin the New 12 months Nicely—Half Two

Lecturers Neil Wetherbee, Marsha Ratzel, Jessica Lahey, and Robyn Shulman share their recommendations.

* Don’t Wait Till Christmas to Smile

Writer/educators Annette Breaux and Neila A. Connors contribute their ideas.