Active Learning Strategies and Classroom Resources for Busy Teachers
Ready-to-use teaching tools that help students think, remember, and apply what they learn without adding hours to your prep.
Active Learning Strategies
Created by Oskar Cymerman, a classroom teacher who designs practical, brain-based tools that support impactful and effective learning, increased student engagement, and deeper thinking.
Teaching Strategies That Improve Student Learning
Crush School helps teachers turn research-supported learning ideas into simple classroom activities students enjoy and find meaningful.
Here you’ll find:
Active learning strategies that get students thinking, talking, and doing
Ready-to-use classroom activities, lessons, posters, and notebooks
Practical teaching ideas rooted in building memory, curiosity, retrieval, and transfer
Resources designed for real classrooms, not perfect imaginary ones
5 Active Learning Strategies You Can Use Today
Start with five simple, high-impact strategies you can use this week to increase engagement, strengthen memory, and help students make stronger connections.
You’ll also get the free HITs Newsletter with practical teaching ideas 1-2 times per week.
Classroom Tools: Save Time and Improve Learning
Whether you need a quick bell ringer, a review activity, a full lesson, a classroom poster, or a better way for students to apply and transfer information, Crush School resources are designed to help you prep less and students do more thinking and learning.
Built by a Teacher, for Teachers
I’m Oskar, a teacher, writer, and creator of Crush School. I write about teaching strategies that help students become better thinkers, stronger learners, and more independent humans.
My goal is simple: create tools teachers can actually use, explain why they work, and make learning feel more active, meaningful, and doable.
Ready to Make Learning More Active?
Start with five free strategies you can use right away.
Crush School Testimonials
“The author’s style reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell in that he combines a little science, a little wit and lot of his own brilliant mind to create a book that turns the seemingly obvious, but surprisingly difficult into the totally understandable. ”
“Speaks right to teens. Thank you for saying everything I’ve been trying to tell my son in a language he understands! Easy to read and understand. Short and to the point. Great for the short attention span of teens.”
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In this classroom Mistakes are Expected, Respected, Inspected, Corrected!
Learned helplessness is a result of years of conditioning that mistakes are bad for learning. Nothing is further from the truth - some of the most powerful life lessons come from making mistakes, reflecting on them, and growing as a result.
This is a PNG Poster you can print and display in your classroom to encourage a culture of risk-taking and learning from mistakes.
TEACHER RESOURCES
Engaging Classroom Strategies, Active Learning, Managing Cognitive Load, and other Brain-Based Instruction
Flashcards are okay but there's a better way. The Memory (or Mind) Palace Method is a powerful learning and memorization technique that when mastered allows a student to remember 10, 20, or even 30 vocabulary words or concepts (definitions included) with ease.
And, they actually remember what they learned using memory palaces! This series of lessons (which can be used as classroom handouts) walks students through creating their first memory palace, filling it with information they need to learn, and using it to train their memories. It also contains short readings, a video lesson, memory palace examples, and practice drills.
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Feel free to use with your students. Please do not share it with other parties or use for profit. All rights by crushschool.com.
MY NEW BOOK ON AMAZON
In it, I explain the science of engaging the mind, forming memories, and improving understanding. Most importantly, I lay out 100+ practical activities teachers can use immediately with little or no prep.
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
A learning how to learn book full of strategies students can use to improve their school performance.
8 digital, printable, size 11 x 17 classroom posters:
“Welcome” in multiple languages
“Hi” in multiple languages
Three Equity posters
Classroom Rules: Be Open, Be Kind, Have Fun
“Classroom of Champs”
“Kindness”
ON SALE until August 30th.