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They may not be traveling to school aboard a scarlet steam engine or learning how to turn toads into water goblets, but a few lucky students will be learning in classrooms this year that don鈥檛 look too different from the ones inside Hogwarts castle.

Teachers have found inspiration in the Harry Potter books for every detail in their classrooms: from keeping students off their cell phones to managing good behavior to teaching literary devices.

For example, at China Grove Elementary in North Carolina, fourth-grade teacher Jessica Moeller will sort her students into the four Hogwarts houses at the beginning of the school year using a sorting hat personality quiz. Those groups will be used for rewarding student behavior as well as facilitating day-to-day student group work in reading and math. 鈥淚 am teaching in a very old building and when I walked into my classroom (Harry Potter) is the first thing that came to mind,鈥� Moeller wrote in a message to 麻豆精品. 鈥淚鈥檓 a huge Harry Potter fan as well.鈥�

While Harry Potter hasn鈥檛 been approved as a social emotional learning tool yet (we鈥檙e sure someone鈥檚 working on it), it鈥檚 already proven useful in teaching students empathy. A found that the seven-book series helped reduce prejudice in its readers toward communities like immigrants, refugees, and LGBT groups.

It鈥檚 all the more magical this school year, as Sept. 1, 2017, marks the famous 鈥�19 Years Later鈥� epilogue of the final Harry Potter book. In this last scene, a grown-up Harry takes his children to the Hogwarts Express and waves goodbye. As it鈥檚 been 20 years this summer since the first Harry Potter book was published in the U.K., today鈥檚 young teachers grew up with the series and are just as eager as Harry to show their kids how to enter Platform 9戮.

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Some of the decorations are just too wand-erful:

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Some teachers know that the only thing more dangerous than a wizard gone rogue is a cell phone. Luckily, this prison doesn鈥檛 require dementors:

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This teacher is using the Harry Potter books to teach literary devices:

Using the House point system to manage student behavior was somewhat effective at Hogwarts (though Dumbledore liked to subvert the system for his favorite bespectacled student), so it鈥檚 not surprising many teachers have adopted it in their own classrooms as well.

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And for the teachers who admire Minerva McGonagall鈥檚 classroom management style but can鈥檛 pull off her pointed hat look, there鈥檚 always this:

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Ten points to Gryffindor.

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