WE HAVE ONE MISSION:
To help you finally find that teacher-life balance you've been looking for while also being an amazing teacher for your students.
Who are we & how can we help you?
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Grab our Free Literary Analysis Escape Room below.
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Then, pick the date you’re going to teach it in your classroom, and sit back while you watch as your students show up to your classroom pumped about what the day holds…and gush about your class to their parents on the car ride home!
4 Ways We Can Help You …
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Join us every week for our latest episodes, interviews, and topics on all things Middle School ELA.
Teach Our Literary Analysis Escape Room Unit
This FREE Unit is filled with simple and fun activities that will leave you feeling like you’re FINALLY THRIVING in the classroom (instead of just barely surviving).
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Read The Empowered ELA Teacher Book
In our best-selling book, you’ll discover a powerful way to create lessons that will give your students more focus, growth, and enjoyment—without sacrificing your nights and weekends.
Join the EB Teachers’ Club
Your online membership and community created specifically for Middle School ELA Teachers just like you!
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We’re Caitlin and Jessica.
And this all started when we were teaching across the hall from one another at a school in L.A.
One summer, we launched an ELA camp to help students get ahead for the summer, using the frameworks we’d developed for our own classrooms. It was a runaway success, and we realized that we wanted to share what we’d discovered with other teachers.
Because frameworks didn’t just make us better teachers…
They also simplified our planning and grading processes, so we had time to do the other things in life. Like read bedtime stories to our kids, squeeze in a long run, or just sit back on the sofa with a new episode of Grey’s and a glass of Pinot Grigio.
Caitlin says: Jessica is the queen of batch planning—and the brilliant creative mind that makes sure both students and teachers have a blast with our activities. (Those escape rooms? All her.)
Jessica says: Caitlin always has big, HUGE ideas—and the organizational skills to pull them off. She’s also the one who’s going to remind you that, when you’re having a bad day, you need to put on your own oxygen mask first.
Download our EB Writing Guide
and get your students mastering the ELA Writing Standards (and having fun doing it!) with 21 different activities and ideas you can use in your classroom right away!
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Our EB Lesson Planning Approach Trainings so you can break that buy, teach, throw away cycle and become PROACTIVE in terms of how you approach writing as well as how you plan for the weeks and months to come.
Highly Engaging Monthly Bundles of Resources (We get to feel a bit like Oprah - YOU get a bundle, and YOU get a bundle, and YOU get a bundle!). We craft each bundle by pairing a vital ELA topic - based on Common Core standards - with a fun theme. The activities within a bundle can be used to cover multiple days of instruction.
Monthly Credits that allow you to download two extra resources from our existing library of over 130 resources!
Our Grammar Corner because we know you can’t get enough grammar - this part of the membership is full of engaging games with practical grammar instruction baked right in.
Support from our community of EB Teachers. The best part of the club is hanging out with other middle school ELA teachers in our private Facebook group.
Group Coaching and Q&A from us, the founders of EB Academics! Each month, we pop in for group coaching sessions - jot your questions down in your Notes app (or 3x5 card - whatever’s handy) and then send them our way.
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