FIRST 3 DAYS OF SCHOOL™ 2.0 • FOUR TOP TEN™ SIGNATURE SYSTEMS
Strengthen the Way Your Classroom Works. Not Just for the First Three Days.
First 3 Days of School™ 2.0 gives you four signature Top TEN™ systems for strengthening the routines, teacher language, lesson participation, peer recognition, and student ownership that shape your classroom every day.
Use them at the beginning of the year. Use them when something feels off. Keep using them as your classroom grows.
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WHAT CHANGES IN YOUR CLASSROOM
Four Systems. One Classroom That Works Better.
When your routines, teacher language, lessons, and peer recognition reinforce one another, students get a much clearer message about how to participate, contribute, follow through, and take ownership.
For You
You stop carrying so much of the classroom yourself.
You have a clear way to teach routines instead of repeating reminders all day.
You know what to say when students are not listening, participating, or following through.
You design learning experiences that ask students to think, talk, collaborate, reflect, and do more of the work.
And you intentionally recognize the behaviors, contributions, effort, and growth you want to see more often.
The power is in how the four systems work together.
Top TEN Routines™ teaches students how the classroom works. Talk Like a Top TEN Teacher™ strengthens how you guide and respond. The 6 Steps to Empowering Lessons™ gets students doing more of the thinking and learning. Shout Outs™ helps students notice and reinforce what your classroom values.
The result?
Instead of constantly reacting to what students are not doing, you have repeatable ways to teach, reinforce, and grow the behaviors and habits you actually want.
Teach it. Practice it. Notice it. Strengthen it. Keep building.
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HOW FIRST 3 DAYS OF SCHOOL™ 2.0 WORKS
Four Signature Systems.
One Stronger Classroom.
Each system strengthens a different part of your teaching. Together, they give students repeated opportunities to learn how to participate, follow through, contribute, collaborate, and take greater ownership.
TEACH IT
Top TEN Routines™
Break routines into teachable steps so students can practice what success looks like and become increasingly independent.
GUIDE IT
Talk Like a Top TEN Teacher™
Use intentional teacher language that reinforces expectations while returning more thinking, remembering, and responsibility to students.
EMPOWER IT
6 Steps to Empowering Lessons™
Design learning experiences where students think, talk, practice, collaborate, reflect, and do more of the intellectual work.
WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN A REAL CLASSROOM
One Classroom Moment Can Use All Four.
Imagine students are moving into partner work during a lesson.
The routine:
Students know how to move, get started, work together, and transition back.
Your language:
You prompt students to recall what successful partner work looks like instead of repeating every direction.
The lesson:
Both students think, talk, listen, explain, and contribute to the learning.
The recognition:
Students notice a classmate’s effort, collaboration, growth, or contribution.
The goal is not to manage every classroom moment yourself.
The goal is to intentionally build a classroom where students know what to do, understand how to participate, recognize what matters, and take greater responsibility for the classroom they are helping create.
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WHAT YOU GET INSIDE
Four Signature Systems You Can Keep Coming Back To.
Learn each system on its own, then begin connecting them across the routines, conversations, lessons, and classroom moments you already have.
SIGNATURE SYSTEM 1
Top TEN Routines™
Learn how to explicitly teach, practice, reinforce, and grow routines so students can do more without waiting for you to manage every step.
SIGNATURE SYSTEM 2
Talk Like a Top TEN Teacher™
Strengthen the words you use when giving directions, reinforcing expectations, redirecting students, and returning more thinking and responsibility to them.
SIGNATURE SYSTEM 3
6 Steps to Empowering Lessons™
Plan learning where students do more of the thinking, talking, practicing, collaborating, reflecting, and owning the learning.
SIGNATURE SYSTEM 4
Shout Outs™
Create meaningful peer recognition so students begin noticing the effort, character, contribution, growth, and choices that strengthen their classroom.
Learn It Once. Use It All Year.
This is self-paced professional learning you can revisit whenever a routine needs strengthening, students need more ownership, or your classroom needs a stronger next move.
Strong classrooms are built intentionally—and strengthened continuously.
These four systems give you repeatable ways to strengthen what students do, what you say, how learning happens, and what your classroom chooses to notice and celebrate.
Build it FIRST. Manage it SECOND.™
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GOOD QUESTION
Is this only useful at the beginning of the school year?
Not at all. The four Top TEN™ signature systems are designed to strengthen the everyday work of your classroom—routines, teacher language, student participation, lessons, peer recognition, and ownership.
Start with them before school begins, introduce them during the first weeks, revisit them after a break, or use them when something in your classroom simply is not working the way you want it to.
The point is not when you start. The point is that you have repeatable ways to keep strengthening the classroom all year.
