Whenever I talk to teachers about blogging I field questions about developing blog post topics and or maintaining a posting schedule. My suggestion is to come up with a list of topics that you can write about every week. I have fifteen suggestions below to help you get started with your blog this fall.

Student-written posts:

• Three favorite moments from the last school year. 
• Favorite part of summer vacation. 
• All-time best moment in school. 
• Three questions they want to find the answers to this year. 
• Favorite book or movie and why. 

Teacher-written posts:
Think about what your students’ parents want to know about. What do they ask you about at open house night or parent-teacher conferences? Think about that for a few minutes and you’ll have a some good blog topics. I did that this spring as I prepared to teach a course on blogging. Here’s the list of blog post topics that I developed.

• How to manage your child’s web use
• How to talk to kids about web use
• How to prevent the summer slide
• 5 fun, free educational activities to do at home (think Maker activities)
• 5 local field trips to do on rainy days
• 5 local field trips to do on sunny days
• A glossary of Tween vocabulary
• 5 things parents should know about Facebook/ Twitter/ Instagram/ Snapchat/ YikYak
• 5 tasty and healthy snacks to send to school
• How to talk to kids about bullying