These Academic Behaviors and Learning Habits Posters give you an easy, meaningful way to establish classroom expectations that focus on the skills that really matter—effort, perseverance, collaboration, and responsibility.

What’s Included

• 15 printable and digital posters highlighting critical academic behaviors
• 4 formats: bright colors (also found on the digital slides), turquoise/lime, black & white, and digital slides for projecting and including with lessons
• Teaching suggestions for introducing and reinforcing behaviors
• A student self-assessment to encourage reflection and goal-setting

Each behavior is a key part of helping students grow as independent, thoughtful learners—perfect for mini-lessons, goal-setting conferences, or daily reminders.

Classroom Uses

• Post all year as visual reminders of classroom expectations
• Project individual slides during lessons or work time (“Use the correct voice level,” “Persevere and never give up”)
• Use the self-assessment for student reflection, report cards, or conference conversations
• Try a “Behavior of the Week” focus to build community and celebrate growth

Why Teachers Love It

“Exactly what I needed! These posters help my students take ownership of their learning.”

“Essential for setting the tone at the start of the year and reinforcing expectations all year long.”

“So helpful to have both print and digital versions—I use them in my slides daily!”

Perfect For:

• Grades K-6 classrooms
• Morning meetings or class meetings
• Growth mindset or SEL lessons
• Schools focusing on academic success skills or positive learning behaviors (contact me for discounted school licenses)

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These 8 activities are geared toward helping YOU help your students get to know each other and learn to work together. You can sprinkle them throughout your first few weeks to show how much you value teamwork–or use throughout the year to reinforce these concepts.

This resource has everything from a STEM challenge, to a great activity to get students talking about learning styles, to a “get to know” me project, and more!

What more do I need to know?

• 8 quality team-building activities
• Teaching tips and hints
• Low-ink, easy-prep materials
• Work samples and examples to help make directions clear
• Addresses a variety of learning styles

Students really do need to be explicitly taught how to work productively, and I hope you and your students have fun learning how to do so.

Check the preview for details–and don’t forget that this is a part of my huge Back to School Bundle with 8 great resources at a value price!

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Looking for other “back to school” activities? Check these out!

Growth Mindset Toolbox

Back to School Pennant Bulletin Board Glyph Project

Back to School Word Problems

Back to School Shopping Project Based Learning Task

Fall Open Ended Math Challenges for Grades 2 and 3

Fall and Back to Writing Prompts

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So often we miss out on important teaching moments at the beginning of the year, so I have tried to make it so easy for you! How does this project help?

• It is a great way for students to get to know each other…

• It is a great way for you to explicitly teach what “quality work” is…(don’t worry–I help you with this!)

• It is a great way to start the year by talking about goal setting….

• It is a great way to celebrate how you are all alike AND different in so many ways—and that’s what makes every class special…

• It is a great way for you to gently ease back into math, writing, and direction following in a low pressure way!

The template for the pennant is included (can be used as is or blown up to 11 x 17 inch size) as are the glyph directions, ideas for supplemental lessons/discussion, two work samples to help in discussing work quality, and letters to use for a bulletin board or hallway display.

Check out the preview and video preview for more!

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Looking for other “back to school” activities? Check these out!

Growth Mindset Toolbox

Back to School Word Problems

Back to School Shopping Project Based Learning Task

Fall Open Ended Math Challenges for Grades 2 and 3

Fall and Back to Writing Prompts

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Teaching students about mindset can make a huge difference in all areas of schooling and this set of growth mindset posters, lessons, and activities can make it easy! Students who believe they can learn, who recognize that hard work pays off, and that minor setbacks lead to more growth actually can rewire their brains. The research is clear.

This resource is intended to give you some tools to get these discussions going as you work to help students become more growth-oriented learners. Investing time learning about perseverance and “grit”, goal setting, and helping students become reflective, flexible learners will pay off many times over. What do you get? Read on!

Included:

1. Headers and copies of several different activities that can then be displayed on bulletin board to use almost like anchor charts throughout the year.

*Sorting growth mindset vs fixed mindset phrases

*Cards that show “What I can do” as a learner—color version to display, black and white versions to use on anchor charts, and mini versions to use as writing prompts.

*”I used to say” and “Now I say” bulletin board activity which helps students recognize productive self-talk as opposed to the kind of language that results from a fixed mindset.

2. Several growth mindset surveys and goal-setting sheets and suggestions for use.

3. Drawing/writing pages for students to reflect on their own experiences.

4. “talking points” cards to help your morning meetings, partner sharing, or even journal writing.

5. “headers” to print and glue to chart paper as professional-looking, ready to use anchor charts!

6. Coloring posters for students to decorate with key growth mindset phrases. Hang them all around your classroom and school to celebrate!

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***What are teachers saying about this resource?***

“I cannot say enough good things about this resource. It is packed with different ways to promote growth mindset in the classroom. I printed it on bright paper and made a cute bulletin board and students referenced it all year long. We had extensive lessons over what this means. It’s great!”

“This is a fantastic addition to my Growth Mindset Bulletin Board. This encourages the students to believe that they can do things they may have once believed they were unable to do. Great discussion starters. Change one mindset at a time! Thank you for a very thoughtful and thorough product. The students are now encouraging each other!”

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I highly encourage you to download the preview to get a closer look at all that you get!

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Looking for other challenging resources to work on growth mindset?

A problem-solving resource that nurtures a growth mindset and perseverance can be found by clicking Here!

A computation practice resource that nurtures a growth mindset can be found by clicking Here!

A great open-ended problem solving resource can be found by clicking Here!

…and many more in my store!

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Give this a try! You will get 2 versions of a Venn diagram for partners or trios to work to find things they have in common…perfect to help students begin to recognize that they have MANY things in common with other classmates. You can even repeat the process several times as students get to know others. Consider trying the extension idea included as well! Helping students learn to talk with each and connect to each other should be an important step in those first days of school–and this freebie can help!”

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The survey can be printed (either color or black and white) and used in class or can be customized digitally by selecting the slides you want to use to make your own survey. There are 27 different slides, so pick and choose the ones that will work best for your needs! Check out the preview to see exactly what options you have.

Why is doing a survey a great way to start the year?

• It is a great way for you and your students to get to know each other…

• It allows tons of flexibility with both print and digital versions…

• It is a great way to start the year by talking about goal setting, strengths and learning styles….

• The information gathered can allow you to celebrate how you are all alike AND different in so many ways—and that’s what makes every class special…

• It is a great way for you to collect information about your students’ thoughts about technology and virtual learning–critical for today’s world of education…

• It allows you to get insight as to your students’ likes, dislikes, interests, worries, and so much more…

• You can use many slides over and over to “take the temperature” of your class and see how their thoughts and feelings are changing

Enjoy getting to know your new group of students! Check out the preview and the preview video for even more information.

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Looking for other “back to school” activities? Check these out!

Back to School Pennant Project

Growth Mindset Toolbox

Back to School Word Problems

Back to School Shopping Project Based Learning Task

Fall Open Ended Math Challenges for Grades 2 and 3

Fall and Back to Writing Prompts

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This set of task cards is geared toward two different objectives:

1. To help students get to know each other as they begin to form their new classroom community

2. To begin to practice accountable talk and respectful classroom speaking and listening.

What is included?

• 16 discussion prompts in full-sized, full color slides to print or project
• Task card versions in color AND black and white for use in small groups
• 4 posters to print and project to get students using accountable talk stems
• Suggestions for use
• FULL DIGITAL ACCESS!

Check out all these ways these can be used!

• Consider using this activity to practice “accountable talk” and having quality discussions. (Talk STEM slides included to help). Consider projecting or printing these and practicing!
• This is a great back-to-school activity—and a perfect chance to talk about respecting people’s strengths, opinions, and backgrounds. Make sure you work to establish that feeling of “safety” so all students feel good about sharing their ideas.
• Project one slide at a time and have “table talk” or small group discussions. Use all in one session or divide into several.
• Create a set of several slides. Use a timer and give each group a set amount of time to complete each task or discussion.
• Consider using the slides multiple times so students can get to know different groups of students.
• Print the cards like task cards. Make a set for each group to use. You can use a timer or let them work at their own pace.
• Send some or all of the cards digitally to small groups.
• Students can discuss verbally or can record their thinking on paper.
• Consider a class meeting after using the cards to talk about what students have learned and how it went.

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Looking for more back-to-school resources? CHECK OUT THESE!

Back to School Pennant Glyph and Bulletin Board

Back to School Word Problems (print and digital)

Cooperative Learning: Building Teamwork

Growth Mindset Toolkit

Back to School Student Surveys (print and digital)

Back to School Open Ended Math Task (print and digital)

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This bundle includes resources that can be used successfully with grades 3-5. Please see below for the list of included resources and a brief description for each. Feel free to click on the individual resources for more information or to see their previews.

See how these eight resources can help you start your year off successfully!

1. Back to School Pennant Glyph Project

I LOVE this project for back to school! The resource has explicit directions for how to complete these beautiful pennants that make an amazing display AND the resource is tailored to help YOU help your students learn about work quality. This is a hit every single year!

2. Back to School Student Surveys (print and digital)

Getting to know our students is such a key part of building classroom community. This set of surveys has a range of topics from family and friends to academics—and even technology. You can print the surveys or use them as interactive digital slides.

3. Growth Mindset Toolkit

We all know that helping students learn how to tackle life challenges, struggles, and more is a key part of what we do. This resource is filled with different lessons, displays, posters, activities, and teaching tips to help you start the year off with the growth mindset lessons that will help establish your classroom culture for the rest of the year.

4. Back to School Word Problems (print and digital)

Getting your year of math started off with some great back-to-school themed problems is a great way to encourage math thinking. Use for fast finishers, as math warm ups, or for some collaborative problem solving to kick off the year!

5. Back to School Shopping Challenge: An open-ended PBL math task (print and digital)

If you want to start your year off by immersing your students in a fun, engaging math task—this is what you need! Students are given all the information they need to do some back-to-school shopping and stay on budget. The resource is differentiated AND includes bonus practice pages, math talk ideas, and even more extensions.

6. Back to School Cooperative Activities

This set of 8 cooperative activities is perfect to get your students working together, talking together, and building that sense of teamwork we need in our classrooms. From math to STEM to “getting to know you”, these activities are low-prep, low-ink and ready to use!

7. Back to School Community Building Task Cards

This set of task cards is designed to use in small groups—maybe even at desk groups to help students get to know each other AND learn how to talk and listen to each other. It’s print and digital and comes with tons of suggestions for use.

8. Back to School “Times” Math Game

This ready-to-print game just needs dice and some “markers” (counters, slips of paper, pennies). Directions are super simple and it’s a great way to get your students playing games in those first weeks of school!

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