May 8, 2026
Each stop is quick, practical, and ready to use in your classroom right away.
🧠 Adolescent Psychology
The human brain doesn’t finish developing its ability to evaluate long-term effects until, on average, age 25. In addition to explaining why our students often do dumb things, their lack of foresight also helps explain why they often seem to think that the school year is over when there are still three weeks left.
🧩 Instruction
One method that may help to counter that “I’m done” mindset is to treat the last two real weeks like a sprint, not a crawl. It may help to name the timeline explicitly: “We have two weeks. That’s all! These are the things we still need to accomplish in that short time.”
By labelling the time as “short” and listing what we need to do in a concise, defined list, we show students a clear endpoint. That endpoint helps them see a goal besides surviving, which in turn makes the time seem to go faster (for them – and therefore for you).
📱 Technology
With family in the summer or organizing your PLC group, sometimes you need to find the best day/time to meet. One way to simplify that process is with a website called Rallly (yes, with three Ls). Visit rallly.co and set up a poll to find the ideal time/day to meet. You set up a poll with suggested times and share a link. Everyone chooses the times that work, could work (but are inconvenient), or absolutely won’t work. You see the results on a single page.
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