Staring...Trevor Ambrose, Jack Belcher, Liz Bender, Mikayla Colvin, Alejandrina Hernandez, Christopher WardThe semester just started and you have 150 names to remember...and you must do it fast! Students feel marginalized when you can't remember their names:I’m insignificantMr. S doesn’t notice meI’m not importantMr. S doesn’t like meI’m invisibleMr. S knows other student’s names. He must like them betterA number of years ago, for some odd reason, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie came up in class. I referred to them reflexively as Brangelina. I was struck by how every kid knew exactly whom I was referring to. Hmmmm! Perhaps, I thought, I could do the same thing with a student's first and last names. This was the birth of the Celebrity Couple Nickname Game. It has:Been a fun bonding toolAllowed me to remember student namesCreated powerful allegiance to my classTen days into class, you don’t want to be saying, “Hey…you in the brown shirt, what’s the answer to #10?”Listen to these incredible student voices promote the power of this technique!

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