The Organized Teacher's Guide to Being a Creative Teacher, Grades K-6, 3rd Edition

Liven up your lesson plans and energize your students! Winner of a Teacher's Choice Award!

To keep your students engaged in the classroom, you have to get them excited about learning. This award-winning resource offers hundreds of creative ideas to reenergize your lesson plans for any subject across grades K-6. You’ll find inspiration to help you wake up tired book reports and make math more fun. This new edition has been fully revised to align with the Common Core Standards. 

There’s a host of reproducible content such as worksheets, project ideas, templates for journal pages included in the book and available online. From submarine sandwich book reports to graphic organizers to help incorporate writing into math curriculum, The Creative Teacher, Third Edition, has ideas and materials to add zing to your classroom plans as you incorporate the Common Core Standards.

The Creative Teacher, Third Edition features: 

• Content that aligns with Common Core standards
• Reproducible, ready-to-use pages in the book and online
• Prompts and tools to keep students motivated and engaged
• Hundreds of creative ideas to liven up your lessons, and more

About The Authors: 

Steve Springer, MA, is a full-time classroom teacher in Los Angeles, CA, with a special focus on the arts throughout the subject areas and the incorporation of technology into the curriculum. He presents at bilingual conferences and new teacher conferences, and he regularly attends children's literature conferences. He has also illustrated 11 McGraw-Hill Education titles.

Brandy Alexander, MFA, is a full-time classroom teacher in Los Angeles, CA. He serves as a master teacher for student teachers, while also presenting at new teacher conferences from year to year.

Kimberly Persiani, EdD, is an associate professor of curriculum and instruction at California State University, Los Angeles. She presents at local and international conferences for bilingual education, children's literature, gender equity and moral and character education, and has written ten books for classroom teachers including The Organized Teacher, The Organized Teacher's Guide to Classroom Management and The Organized Teacher's Guide to Children's Literature.