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This quick and easy warm-up primes students to think creatively and gets them in the mindset for class.

It can be challenging to get students focused and ready for class after the chaotic transition of a passing period, but Karla Hilliard, English language arts teacher at Spring Mills High School, found a method that works—a low-stakes and easy warm-up that she calls Board Splash. When students arrive to her classroom, they see a question written on the board. The question might relate to a text they’ve been studying or a big idea, or it might act as a review. Hilliard announces the question, and invites students to go up to the board to write their responses.

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