Queues: An easy, fair strategy to manage student needs

Once I started using queues, I couldn't stop! This is the easiest, fairest way I have found to manage the needs of a classroom full of students working on different tasks or at different paces.

Edutopia captured the most common way I used this strategy- The "Teacher Queue" :

I also frequently set up student-run queues, especially when I am facilitating a project that requires students to take turns using tools or workspaces. Below is a video I created to explain to my students the rules for these "tool queues" and how they will be held accountable for using this system: