1. Set the Stage: Helping Kids Become World Class Readers and Scholars! Back-To-School Time already! All summer I’ve written about summer reading projects, themes, great read-alouds and how-to overcome the infamous “summer slide”. Today I’m sharing a couple of interesting links including: Room organization (Edutopia) Kindergarten classroom (Kindergarten Smorgasboard) Classroom Visuals (guest post by Debbie Clement) My ideal classroom has no teacher desk, less furniture the better, other than a comfortable mix of tables or flat surfaces for writing, centers,…..