Teaching ideas & resources
Thoughtful teaching, ready for your classroom
Essays on the thinking behind lessons, plus classroom-ready materials you can adapt to the students in front of you.
What you'll find here
Three areas of practice
Ideas and materials organized around the moments that shape a school day.
Routines
Classroom routines
Transitions, warm-ups, and daily structures that give students a predictable rhythm to learn within.
Literacy
Literacy strategies
Reading and writing approaches that support students at different levels, with the reasoning explained.
Planning
Lesson planning insights
Notes on sequencing, pacing, and the small choices that help a lesson hold together in the room.
The approach
A resource should be clear enough to understand and flexible enough to adapt.
Every idea here is written to be considered, then shaped to fit the classroom in front of you. The aim is not a script to follow, but the reasoning behind a lesson, so you can make it your own.