Building positive community starts with the first day of school and remains a priority throughout the school year. Here are four groups of ideas to help students feel welcomed and comfortable. They are not one-shot deals. Rather, they benefit from frequent (i.e. almost daily) repetition, particularly during the first six weeks of school, and then regularly thereafter as ongoing reminders.

Here are the top 25 picks of toys that one preschool teacher suggests should be in every preschool classroom. When choosing the toys for preschool classrooms remember that simple is best. Children learn better in an environment that is not cluttered with toys, but instead in a space that is clean, simple, and with room for their imaginations. This list includes toys for every area of learning.

TeachThought is a great website for practical information and thought pieces. Their mission “is to grow teachers,” and this is reflected in the site’s content. TeachThought organizes its content into four main categories—Critical Thinking, Learning, Teaching, and The Future of Learning—which offer everything from theoretical think pieces to practical tasks for application

It’s no secret that many tweens and teens don’t talk to their parents about their struggles because of the shame and embarrassment they know they’ll feel. But that isolation and secrecy only keeps them in bondage to their addiction and sin, something all parents wish they could help their children understand. So how do we break down that barrier and help them find freedom? Take 3-5 to minutes to read the post and glean practical insight from a mom in the thick of it.