Teaching Secrets: The Last Day of School is a piece I wrote a few years ago for Education Week, and it still holds true — for me, at least. I thought readers might find it useful in case you haven’t seen it already.

Unfortunately, for some reason I don’t have the link to it that lets you read it without registering at Ed Week. However, it is free, easy and quick to register to see it all, and you also get the benefit of seeing other great content they have, too.

Let me know if you have other ideas about making the last day relatively productive….

(NOTE: Alice Mercer has written how she uses some of the ideas in my article in her elementary classroom)