April is here, and if you're feeling the weight of testing season, you are not alone. In this episode, Abigail Jarrett, a first-grade teacher from New York, brings warmth, wisdom, and practical strategies to help you navigate spring testing with confidence and intention.
Abigail walks you through three core strategies for protecting your classroom culture when the testing environment threatens to unravel it, two morale-boosting rituals you can put in place right now, and one powerful mindset shift that will change the way you see this season entirely.
You'll learn how to recognize the signs that your students are struggling with testing anxiety, why abandoning your routines is one of the biggest mistakes you can make this time of year, and how to separate your students' test performance from their identity and yours. Abigail also shares specific scripts for supporting students during testing, and how to handle the post-test moments in ways that keep community front and center.
If you've been questioning everything you've done this year, this episode is your reminder: your classroom culture is your legacy, and no test score can measure what you've built.
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