Background: First, to the hundreds of people who have asked me for this blog post: I'm sorry. I said that I would write a blog post "within the week," and here we are a year later. 😂 I hope that you can forgive me, and I truly hope that this post helps you establish a house system in your classroom community. The house system idea first appealed to me when I discovered the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. It touched on my love for Harry Potter and teaching all in one, and I KNEW that I wanted to ... VIEW POST