Michelle Dragalin

Connect content areas through thematic teaching strategies that increase student engagement, creativity, critical thinking, and deeper understanding across grade levels.

Increase student engagement with culturally responsive practices that connect instruction to learners’ identities, experiences, perspectives, and strengths across the curriculum.

Connect history to literacy, science, and math. Strengthen critical thinking with primary sources and cross-curricular lessons.

Clarify teacher and paraprofessional roles with legally sound systems. Build partnerships that protect learning time and student independence.

Crack the code on test readiness with classroom-embedded strategies. Build student confidence across multiple choice and constructed response formats.

Enhance your teaching practice with practical, actionable strategies. Gain tools and techniques you can implement in your classroom immediately.

Designed to help substitute teachers effectively manage classrooms, facilitate instruction, build positive relationships, and confidently navigate the unique challenges of stepping into any learning environment.