Not all essential oils are created equal. When shopping for essential oils, try to steer clear of the ones found in aisles of big box stores or Amazon. Instead, look for oils with real concentrated plant extracts in them and very little else. If they are organic, even better. If you don’t want to go on a deep dive through the Google rabbit hole of essential oil shopping, we have done the leg work for you. Below is a list of some of our favorite essential oils, essential oil blends, and brands.

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Creating classroom rules is always a personal choice among teachers. Some teachers like their classroom rules to be designed by students. Other teachers like rules to be about classroom procedures and standards of behavior. Here are a list of ideas for you to consider:

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Here at The Teaching Distillery, we have a few tricks up our sleeves to get your empty book shelves filled in no time.

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We here at TTD are huge fans of staying organized throughout the school year. We have definitely gone through our fair share of teacher planner brands and styles throughout the years. We think we have finally found one that we feel is pretty darn close to perfect. We have all the heart eyes for the Ban.do brand large 17-month planners. 

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We don’t know about you, but we are starting to see a major decline in our students collective ability to be creative. We are trying to rack our brains as to why. Is it because of technology, the Common Core State Standards, lack of unstructured play time? Maybe all of the above.

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