Cleaning Your Classroom? You’ll Want This Checklist

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Keeping a clean classroom is important. But how often should classroom bookshelves be cleaned? What about baskets? And how about those shared surfaces that students touch daily? This classroom cleaning checklist breaks down how often to clean your classroom areas.

All classroom cleaning tasks are grouped by cleaning frequency, from daily to yearly. By using this checklist as a guide, you’ll ensure that your learning space is clean and germs and dirt are kept at bay.

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Kimmie is a Senior Editor at We Are Teachers. She has 13 years of classroom teaching experience and was the 2009 Puget Sound Teacher of the Year. Kimmie is fully bilingual (English and Spanish).