A neon sign stopped me mid-visit in a middle school classroom. Here’s what I found when I went looking for more — a curated edit of classroom neon signs that build belonging and make students feel seen.

A teacher blog about the importance of creating a space where you get to return and be yourself throughout the day. The story centers on a colleagues collection of floating pens but is about much more.

A story about music, middle school, and making room for students to breathe. If students feel calm, safe, curious, and excited, they learn that curiosity is valuable. That their voice matters. That school is a place where they belong. But if students feel nervous that a teacher does not understand them, anxious they will not…

I have a theory that most “teacher products” completely miss the aesthetic. Somewhere along the way, we collectively decided that anything made for teachers needed to fall into one of two categories: aggressively cute or aggressively functional. So now the options are either rainbow script fonts and apple or a work bag that looks prepared…