IT’S TRUE…YOUR MORNING MEETINGS CAN BE PACKED WITH PURPOSE—

without any guilty feelings that you should be doing something else with your precious classroom minutes…

without having to come up with new games, handshakes, greetings, and “get to know you” questions each day…

without the fear that an administrator will walk in and question how you are spending your students’ time…

because you can implement morning meetings (or other social-emotional routine) WHILE teaching the standards you are required to teach - - -

YEP. You CAN give your students cake AND let them eat it, too! 🍰

…with theme-based morning meetings!

INTRODUCING THE MORNING MEETING MASTERCLASS WHERE I’LL TEACH YOU THE FRAMEWORK FOR THEME-BASED MORNING MEETINGS.

I’ve taken my failures from a first-attempt at upper elementary morning meetings and turned them into solid lessons in how to make morning meetings more impactful and purposeful while increasing your commitment to holding them consistently.

If your morning meetings have been full of starts and stops, ball dropping, or you just plain haven’t ever implemented them, this is for you!

If you’ve LOVED morning meetings but are curious about how you can make them even more purposeful, this is for you!

If you want someone to lay out your back to school, community building plans…also for you. 😊

In 4 bite-sized videos, I’ll walk you through a framework that has allowed me to implement morning meetings at the upper elementary level without making my students feel like little kids and without sacrificing classroom time for (what could be perceived as) fluff…

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Wondering how you can set you classroom up for success from the start? Hoping to implement morning meetings or social-emotional lessons?

In this Morning Meeting Masterclass, you’ll learn:

💛 8 Reasons to schedule in a morning meeting routine + 5 benefits of using themes in literature as the foundation for your morning meetings

💛 The 5 phases of a theme-based morning meeting unit and what morning meetings that are appropriate for upper-elementary could look like

💛 How morning meetings can enhance the curriculum and standards that you are required to teach

💛 17 + possible topics for your morning meetings

AND, WALK AWAY WITH lesson plans and materials for your first morning meeting unit—you’ll be prepared for BACK TO SCHOOL and ready to CREATE A STRONG CLASSROOM COMMUNITY FROM THE START!

I’ve spent over 10 years teaching through a theme-based morning meeting framework and perfecting the routines that have allowed my students to transform into caring, thoughtful, responsible individuals who have strategies and skills for being successful in life.

But, you don’t have to just take it from me, check out these teachers’ stories.

"As a first year teacher I know how important building a classroom community is. However, implementing a classroom meeting for my students had been near impossible in my student population with my still developing teaching skills. In addition to that, I'm at a school that really needs to have a social emotional curriculum and does not. As the year has gone on and my 5th graders are getting ready for middle school, I am seeing a lot more "drama" and disrespect within the classroom. This was really hard for me because I didn't want this to be how my classroom operates and I knew something had to be done!

I saw your morning meeting resources a bit ago, but finally took the plunge and purchased the whole series.

It's amazing to see my students engaging with the ideas and having something concrete to think about as well as giving them words to express their feelings and a deeper understanding of the importance of being respectful to yourself and others.

I wish I had started this sooner and I look forward to using these lessons year-round next school year! It has given my students the social-emotional curriculum they need. " 💕

and...it's not just new teachers that have experienced this transformation...Take it from Jennifer, a 21 year veteran teacher who took over a maternity leave right before winter break.

Jennifer could tell that her students needed to go back and address the quality of their community and "reprogram" (her words) a few things. After going through the morning meeting framework PD, she emailed to say, "I just finished the morning meetings training and I am so excited to give this a go. This is giving me the confidence to tackle issues that I did not quite know how to address." 

Well, you don't have to wait until December or January to start planning and creating the kind of community you want for yourself and your students! Join me today!