Classroom Management Tips and Beginning of the Year Ideas. This site is primarily intended for early grades teachers. There are numerous tips for getting attention, handling clean-up and other routine, daily tasks.

First Day of School Activities. This site is applicable across the grade levels. With the greater availability today of technology, some of the ideas suggested here are even easier to implement.

First Day for Middle School. This is an interesting “getting-to-know-you” activity.

Best of the Icebreakers: . This is a compilation of some of the best ideas from Education World for “getting-to-know-you,” team-building suggestions. This article also contains a link to the Education World archives for additional "ice breakers." Some of these ideas might make for good advisory group activities too.

Education World’s Back to School Checklist. Here is another great article full of suggestions to get the school year off to a good start. Many of these suggestions connect to additional articles with more information.

The Really Best List of Classroom Management Resources. The only bad thing about this site is that it is mammoth. The various sites that comprise it are well described, though, improving the likelihood of locating information you want. Also, because of the huge number of links in this site, you’ll find some do not work; most do though.

Classroom Management. This is an interactive site that essentially presents a series of lessons on creating and maintaining a good environment.

Ideas for Bulletin Boards. This is a lengthy list of ideas on how to create easy, interesting bulletin boards.