by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP
Articles for Reprint
by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP
Articles for Reprint
This page is a compilation of articles written by Susan Fitzell. The articles provided here are free to use in your newsletters, magazines, or other publications.
Educations Article For Reprint
Administrators and Administration
Classroom Management and Organization
- 12 Creative Storage Ideas for Your Classroom (597 words)
- 12 Ways to Eliminate Monkey Business in the Classroom (506 words)
- 12 Ways to Teach Kids to Recognize and Label Their Emotions (916 words)
- A Baker’s Dozen Classroom Storage Ideas (846 words)
- A Dozen Surefire Tips on Flexible Grouping and Small Group Learning (388 words)
- A Dozen Ways to Web Surf Efficiently (919 words)
- Efficiently Rearrange the Classroom for Cooperative Learning (428 words)
- One Teacher’s Real Life Teaching Strategy Story – Fidget Tools (560 words)
- Teaching Emotions in the Classroom (584 words)
- Teaching the Difference Between Tattling and Reporting (776 words)
Co-teaching and Collaboration
- 12 Surefire Ways for Both Co-Teachers to Actively Participate in the Classroom (818 words)
- 12 Surefire Ways to Co-Teach Successfully (451 words)
- 20 Things to Never Say to Your Co-teacher (1,138 words)
- A Co-teaching Model for Bringing Out the Hidden Skills in Your Co-teaching (627 words)
- Are YOU Ready for Your Co-teaching Experience? (753 words)
- Changing it up (528 words)
- Chunking Lessons with Station Teaching (531 words)
- Collaborative Roles in the Classroom (687 words)
- Conference Table Style Flexible Grouping! (291 words)
- Co-Teachers Supporting Each Other (900 words)
- Co-teaching Models: Making time for Co-teaching, Planning a Path to Success (599 words)
- Co-Teaching: An Opportunity to Teach by Co-Example (857 words)
- Co-Teaching and Parity (1,528 words)
- Co-Teaching With Data Driven Instruction (979 words)
- Does Co-teaching Work? (1,107 words)
- Effective Co-Planning Is Key To Successful Co-Teaching (655 words)
- Help! My Co-teacher is Completely Different from Me (773 words)
- One Teach, One Collect Data (470 words)
- One Teach and One Interpret (402 words)
- Should Co-teaching be Voluntary? (591 words)
- Skills and Rigor: Kicking Co-Teaching Up A Notch (648 words)
- Teaching Strategies for All Ability Levels in a Larger Classroom (485 words)
- The Pros and Cons of Team Teaching (558 words)
- Using Picture Books as a Secondary Reading Intervention (667 words)
- Using Teach Half Then Switch in the Science Lab (584 words)
- When You have NO space for Co-Teaching Implementations (813 words)
- Which Co-Teaching Approach is Right for You? (539 words)
- Which co-teaching models are most effective at the elementary and secondary levels and why? (626 words)
Conflict Resolution and Bully Prevention
- 12 Ways Students Can Be Better Bystanders (558 words)
- 12 Ways to Teach Kids to Recognize and Label Their Emotions (916 words)
- A Dozen Tried and True Ways to Stop Conflict in its Tracks (630 words)
- A Dozen Ways to Build a Caring Classroom Community (571 words)
- Anger Management: One Tool in the Peace Kit (987 words)
- A Private Passion (799 words)
- Best Practice: Establish a “No Putdown Rule” in Your Classroom (692 words)
- Could It Happen Here? (953 words)
- Fostering Courage, Strength, and Compassion in Adolescent Girls: The First Step (588 words)
- Gossip: Realize that the Gossiper will Gossip About You, Too (645 words)
- Lessons Taught Through Fear (1,383 words)
- Motivate Your Students By Helping Them Own Their Behavior (478 words)
- Proven Techniques to Help You Nurture Media Aware Teens (612 words)
- Teach Anger Management – Five Ways to Help Students Deal With Anger Constructively (757 words)
- Teachers as Role Models: Hurtful Language and Behavior in the Classroom (1,256 words)
- Teaching Emotions in the Classroom (584 words)
- What Can a Parent Teach Their Child/Teen to do to Respond to Bullying? (474 words)
- What I Encountered Within (966 words)
Homework and Parenting
- 12 Do-Able Homework Assignments for All Students (827 words)
- 12 Surefire Ways to Remember Vocabulary (731 words)
- A Dozen Ways to Web Surf Efficiently (919 words)
- Different Children (1,303 words)
- Five Strategies for Making Multiple Choice Tests Easier (984 words)
- How to Set the Stage for Homework Success (783 words)
- Learning Tips for Multiple Intelligences (710 words)
- My Newly Established Method of Knowing Information Creatively (Mnemonic) (365 words)
- Proven Techniques to Help You Nurture Media Aware Teens (612 words)
- Relationship Skills and Our Role as Teachers and Parents (717 words)
- Seven Homework Strategies that Parents Can Use to Reinforce Learning (948 words)
- Tackling Homework – Steps Parents Can Take to Support Their Child (780 words)
- Test Taking Skills – Ace Those Reading and Math Test Questions! (365 words)
- Test Taking Strategies that Boost Student Scores (566 words)
- The Media’s Impact on Culture and Young Children (1,220 words)
- Using Clustering to Organize Writing (483 words)
Paraprofessional
- 12 Ways to Improve and Enhance Your Paraprofessional-Teacher Experience (792 words)
- Assumptions Can Blind Us When Dealing With Behavior Problems (1,038 words)
- Collaborating with Paraprofessionals (612 words)
- Decision Making Strategy: Problem Solving Flowchart (710 words)
- How to Remember Multiple Students’ Needs (563 words)
- How to Schedule Paraprofessionals in the Classroom (768 words)
- On the Same Page: Paraprofessionals and Teachers Working Together (616 words)
- Paraprofessional Tips: How to be a Powerful Collaborative Team (757 words)
- Paraprofessionals: Handling Student Behavioral Issues in the Classroom (544 words)
- Promote Critical Thinking: A 3-column Note Taking Strategy (432 words)
- Ten Ways to Get Planning Time with Your Co-Teachers, Paras, or Team! (593 words)
- Throw the Words, “Just a Paraprofessional” Out the Window (1,867 words)
- Tips for Success as a Paraeducator (538 words)
- Tips for Success When Working With Paraprofessionals (538 words)
- When Hovering Isn’t Helping: Give Students Some Space to Grow (719 words)
Response for Intervention (RTI)
- 7 Easy-to-Implement Non-Linguistic Vocabulary Interventions(278 words)
- 12 Things to Consider When Implementing RTI in Secondary Schools (820 words)
- A Vocabulary Intervention Strategy: Finger Spelling and Sign Language (768 words)
- General Education or Special Education and Response to Intervention (1,492 words)
- Implementing Successful RTI at the Secondary Level (690 words)
- Fitzell Acceleration Centers (1,300 words)
- Flexible Group Learning (696 words)
- MTSS and RTI – Seven Keys to Success (528 words)
- Nine Critical Steps to RTI (212 words)
- Reciprocal Teaching – A Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension (197 words)
- RTI in the General Classroom: Acceleration Centers (798 words)
- Using Picture Books as a Secondary Reading Intervention (667 words)
- Vocabulary Interventions for Really Terrific Instruction (RTI) (479 words)
Showing Appreciation
- 12 Ways to Thank Teachers (453 words)
- A Dozen Ways to Thank People Who Make a Difference (310 words)
- A World of Thanks for People Who Make a Difference (323 words)
Teaching Strategies
- Sensory Processing Strategies for Hypo and Hypersensitive Students (1307 words)
- 7 Secret Tips to Ace a Multiple Choice Test (452 words)
- 12 Surefire Ways to Focus Your Class and Increase Learning (501 words)
- 12 Surefire Ways to Remember Vocabulary (731 words)
- 12 Tips for Working With Parents of Children with Special Needs (491 words)
- 12 Ways to Ensure an Effective Lecture (514 words)
- 12 Ways to Help ESL and ELL Students (875 words)
- 12 Ways to Respond to Students Needs While Making Progress Together (487 words)
- 15 Challenge, SDI, and Enrichment Activities to Keep Challenge Groups Engaged in the Mixed-ability Classroom(Part 1) (Part 2)
- Accelerate Learning in Your Classroom (626 words)
- A Dozen Best Practices to Usher in the New School Year (529 words)
- A Dozen Commonsense Strategies to Maintain Focus, Attention, and Enhance Learning in the Classroom (521 words)
- A Dozen Mind-Expanding Strategies to Increase Brain Capacity (532 words)
- A Dozen Surefire Tips on Flexible Grouping and Small Group Learning (388 words)
- A Dozen Surefire Tips on How to Manage Time and Increase Efficiency in the Classroom! (1,040 words)
- A Dozen Surefire Ways to Boost Memory in the Diverse Classroom (628 words)
- A Dozen Ways to Support Learning Styles (491 words)
- A Dozen Ways to Web Surf Efficiently (919 words)
- A Dual Approach to Test-taking That Empowers Students (702 words)
- A Forest School in China (1,820 words)
- A Safe Way for Students to Share How They Learn Best (587 words)
- Break Away From Tradition with Authentic Assessments (817 words)
- Conference Table Style Flexible Grouping! (291 words)
- Content Area Reading (985 words)
- Danger! How Assuming That Students Understand Our Words Fails Them (1,461 words)
- Easy to Read (840 words)
- Experience as the Teacher (877 words)
- Fitzell Acceleration Centers (1,300 words)
- Flexible Group Learning(696 words)
- Four Easy Teaching Strategies for Summarizing Skills (864 words)
- Goal Setting: A Proven Strategy for Motivating Students (293 words)
- How One Teacher Used Visuals and Groups to Chunk Her Lesson (595 words)
- I Visited a School for Autism in China – You Won’t Believe What I Learned! (1,820 words)
- Improve Learning with Research-based Classroom Lighting Strategies (900 words)
- Learning Tips for Multiple Intelligences (710 words)
- Make Your Classroom Lighting Learner Friendly (695 words)
- Motivating Students to be Engaged Learners, in 30 Days or Less (1,157 words)
- Motivating vs Enabling: How to Motivate Students When They are Stuck (975 words)
- My Newly Established Method of Knowing Information Creatively (Mnemonic) (365 words)
- Overcome Writer’s Block With This Productivity Strategy (1,569 words)
- Proven Tips, Tools and Strategies To Teach English Language Learners (3,132 words)
- Providing Students with Choice (560 words)
- Relationship Skills and Our Role as Teachers and Parents (717 words)
- Scripts for Responding to Student Behavior (433 words) Seven Effective Strategies for Using Curation Apps to Engage Students (739 words)
- Seven Simple Ideas for Introducing Technology in the Classroom (1,114 words)
- Seven Surefire Ways to Relate Classroom Material to the Student’s World (677 words)
- Should Tests be the Final Measure of Student Success (832 words)
- Should We Burn Books on Learning Styles? (448 words)
- Speech-to-Text As a Solution for Getting Great Ideas On Paper (620 words)
- Speech to Text: What’s the Benefit for Writers Whether Students or Adults? (793 words)
- Strategies for Effective Group Process: Establish Ground Rules (933 words)
- Studying Tips: A Powerful Memorization Strategy and Review Technique – Three Card Match (829 words)
- Teach Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, and Listening Skills (550 words)
- Teaching Fact vs Opinion for Reading Comprehension(494 words)
- Teaching Strategies & Tools to Help You and Your Students Excel In the Classroom(532 words)
- Technology in Education – Content Curation for Higher-Level Critical Thinking (634 words)
- Technology in Education – Organizing Research and Digital Files with Evernote (737 words)
- Technology in Education – Using Timers as a Simple, Powerful Motivation Tool (491 words)
- Technology Tools for Teachers (757 words)
- Test Taking Strategies that Boost Student Scores (566 words)
- Tell Me A Story: Two Fantastic Teaching Strategies to Increase Student Learning (743 words)
- Things that Can Get Educators in Legal Hot Water (2,262 words)
- Tips to Improve Reading Comprehension (489 words)
- Top 8 Mistakes That Doom Effective Lecture Delivery (577 words)
- Use a timer in your classroom (506 words)
- Use speech-to-text software to make life easier for you and your students! (1,057 words)
- Using Audio Books As Supplemental Instruction (606 words)
- Using Clustering to Organize Writing (483 words)
- Using Content Curation in the Classroom (577 words)
- Using iPads and Other Cutting Edge Technology to Strengthen Your Instruction (893 words)
- Using Video as a Teaching Tool (668 words)
- What Teachers Should Know About How To Help Students Gain a Deeper Understanding of New Material (801 words)
- What’s Working? The 3 Best Tips for Successful Collaboration in the Classroom (651 words)
Business Articles For Reprint
Learning Culture
- How to Self Advocate in a Post-Secondary Setting (1346 words)
- 3 Critical Skills Needed to Advance in Your Career (1311 words)
- My Employee is Both a High Performer and Under Performer! (And How That Can Happen) (1315 words)
- Embracing Neurodiversity in the Skilled Trades (1267 words)
- Hazing in The Field of Nursing: How Nurses Eat Their Young (1621 words)
- Get Better Results by Tapping into the Neurodiversity Talent Pool (1256 words)
- Helping Workers Manage their own Cognitive Differences in the Workplace (1705 words)
- Reconsidering AI in Screening and Hiring (1705 words)
- When A Hidden Learning Disability Holds You Back (1149 words)
- Hindsight and Office Environments Before and After a Pandemic (1729 words)
- Why Now Is the Perfect Opportunity to Promote Remote Learning for Employees (756 words) (Download in MSWord format)
- Motivating Remote Workers (1616 words)
- How to Create A Workplace Where Employees Can Ask for Help When They Need It (865 words)
- The Human Cost of Poorly Implemented LMS (749 words)
- How to Maximize Employees’ Brain Power (And Why it’s Worth the Investment) (1406 words)
- How to Incentivize Learning in the Workplace (1375 words)
- There’s Gold In Them Thar Files (806 words)
- Don’t Leave Them Behind: Upskill and Re-Skill ALL Your Employees (1129 words)
- Why Isn’t Discovery Time Working for Your Company? (965 words)
- What Your Employees Won’t Tell You about How They Learn (806 words)
- How Can I Get Smarter Overnight? (964 words)
- How To Learn Depressingly Boring Information: Your LMS is Not Enough (927 words)
- Employee Training Does NOT Guarantee Learning: Four Ways to Maximize Your Employees’ Brain Power (704 words)
- Identifying the Missing Piece in Your Employees’ Learning Paths (749 words)
Learning Strategies
- Mind Mapping: A How-to Guide (1298 words)
- Strategies for Dealing with Sensory Overload (1691
words) - Five Tips for Embracing Neurodiversity in Your Company (1431
words) - Sensory Processing Strategies for Hypo and Hypersensitive Students (1307
words) - How Mind Mapping Can Help You Connect with Neurodivergent Employees (622
words) - Strategies to Support Your Success in Test Taking (1600 words)
- A Dozen Surefire Ways to Boost Your Memory (1030 words)
- Why You Should Only Use Speech-to-Text to Write Your Book (1666 words)
- How to Screen Capture Training Sessions (724 words)
- I’m An Engineer, Not A Writer! Solution Mapping for Success (457 words)
- Four Foolproof Employee Training Tools (Your Company May Already Have) (1012 words)
- Speech to Text: What’s the Benefit for Writers Whether Students or Adults? (760 words)
- Overcome Writer’s Block With This Productivity Strategy (1473 words)
Neurodiversity In The Workplace
- Neurodiversity in Nursing Training and Professional Development (1518 words)
- A Peek at Neurodivergence Through a Pop Culture Lens (2106 words)
- Six Steps to Make Your Team More Innovative with Neurodiversity in the Workplace (1323 words)
- Seven Ways You Can Support Neurodiversity in the Workplace (1323 words)
- Inclusive Hiring: How to Revamp your Company’s Recruitment and Interviewing Processes (1455 words)
- Managing Neurodivergent Employees (1231 words)
- The Shift to Work From Home in Company Culture (2192 words)
- Are Workplace Accommodations for Neurodivergent Employees Favoritism? (2057 words)
- The Language of Neurodiversity (1241 words)
- HRMs Keys to Success for Neurodiversity in the Workplace (3272 words)
- How Mind Mapping Can Help You Connect with Neurodivergent Employees (622 words)
- Creating Safe Spaces for Neurodivergence in the Workplace (1078 words)
- Ditch Conformity and Hire Divergent Thinkers (1542 words)
- Neurodiversity and Psychological Safety at Work (1580 words)
- How Quarantine Accommodations Benefit Neurodivergent People (1684 words)
- Neurodiversity at Work: How to Promote Inclusivity (1454 words)
- How to Create a Company Culture that Embraces Different Thinkers in the Workplace (1754 words)
- Neurodiversity and New People Labels (1361 words)
- Amp Your Writing Energy With Speech-to-Text Apps (1108 words)
- Laying the Groundwork for Neurodiversity in the Workplace (If You Want It to Work) (1858 words)
- What is Neurodiversity in the Workplace – and Why Do I Need to Know? (854 words)
Other Articles
- 10 Surefire Ways to Manage Your Time at Work (1124 words)
- A Dozen Surefire Ways to Boost Your Memory (1057 words)
- Hiring a Virtual Assistant Changed My Life (867 words)
- Your Voice Is Your Business – Don’t Abuse It (1488 words)
- The 3-Way Effect of Remote Working and Why It Isn’t Going Away (685 words)
- Prevent Remote Work Burnout By Updating Your Home Office (1173 words)
- Gratitude in the Workplace: A Dozen Ways to Thank People Who Make a Difference! (556 words)