Spring Forward: Re-engaging Students and Jumpstarting Learning After Spring Break

Every break in the school year requires us to wind our students back up and re-engage them in the learning routines. In this discussion, we exchange practical and proven ways to help students get back into the swing of learning — including real-life examples of what works. It’s all about moving students from chill mode to school mode so they can finish the year well.

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Nivene Hutchins is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University and has become licensed to teach preschool through fifth grade here in Ohio. She is a brand new third-grade teacher! She has a true passion for grades 3-5 and has been loving every minute she has spent at school this year. She lives for those lightbulb moments students have when they figure out something they have been struggling with.

Dr. Jane Bluestein is an award-winning author whose books include The Win-Win Classroom; The Beginning Teacher’s Survival Guide (formerly Becoming a Win-Win Teacher); Managing 21st Century Classrooms; Creating Emotionally Safe Schools; High School’s Not Forever; Parents, Teens, & Boundaries; The Parent’s Little Book of Lists: Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Parenting; Mentors, Masters, and Mrs. McGregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Difference; and Magic, Miracles & Synchronicity : A Journal of Gratitude and Awareness. Dr. Bluestein’s latest book is The Perfection Deception: Why Trying to Be Perfect is Sabotaging Your Relationships, Making You Sick, and Holding Your Happiness Hostage. Formerly a classroom teacher (in inner-city Pittsburgh, PA), crisis-intervention counselor, teacher training program coordinator, and volunteer with high-risk teens at a local Day Treatment Program.