A Book Creator template to inspire your own creativity. Use the ideas here to make your own welcome book for the start of the school year. 

Teacher-Created Resource Ideas (for Back to School)

Create an enhanced Staff Directory with short profiles and contact information for significant teachers and other staff in your school. Here's an example from Lemon Grove Academy, kindly provided by <a href="https://twitter.com/sdlibra61977/status/1286879778444734465">Lennard Ordinario</a>

Staff directory template

A Google Map showing the school's location (see opposite). You can embed that right inside Book Creator – <a href="https://intercom.help/bookcreator/en/articles/2398639-add-a-google-map-to-your-book">here's how</a>! A map with hand-drawn elements showing key locations in the school. You could enhance this further by adding interactivity, such as <a href="https://www.thinglink.com/scene/954628794147143682">overlay popups made with ThingLink</a> and embedded into Book Creator. A GoPro video tour of the school embedded into your book. A photo of the principal's office with a recorded message.

Check the examples on the following pages ➤➤➤

Open ThingLink

At the start of the year, it might not always be the students you're creating for - it might also be other teachers. Get creative and think of ways you might use Book Creator - for example a staff manual, PD menu or school newsletter. Click the examples below for some ideas!

High School Staff Manual

Professional Development and Coaching Menu

School Newsletter

"it's the start of the year!"

But if you start preparing your yearbook from the get-go, you'll be thankful come the end of the year! Read our blog post on <a href="https://bookcreator.com/2020/06/creating-yearbooks-with-book-creator/">creating the perfect yearbook</a>. When you're ready, you can use the <a href="https://intercom.help/bookcreator/en/articles/4825498-using-templates-to-make-books">Yearbook template</a> inside Book Creator.

Welcome to Damascus Middle School! (2020)

Video tour of the school embedded from YouTube

There are many creative ways to advertise your classroom rules to students. Of course, you may not be in the classroom to use a poster, and the rules may be different as everyone is remote learning instead! Why not get creative, and use a combination of text, images, drawings, audio and video to create a handbook for students? Or, brainstorm the class rules together and make it a collaborative project. If you're teaching special education classes, it works really well to use video and focus on both the wrong way, and the right way to behave.

Blog post: Teaching procedures and routines to your class with Book Creator

Let's create a book to orientate your students. Why not start with a Meet the Teacher page:

A photo of your classroom

Use the Pen tool to add drawings and emojis to your map!

Name

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