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Group Work Tips: Partnering

Group Work Tips: Partnering

I’m always on the lookout for a handy student group work strategy. This one, Clock Partners, is one of my favorites! Sometimes when you prepare for group work, you stay up too late the night before making sure everyone has just the right partner. Have you been there? I have! And, honestly, even if it goes well- it leaves me… Read More

Turn and Talk Tips

Turn and Talk Tips

This is one of my favorite strategies to teach my classes- and my life as a teacher has become so much easier since I implemented a few key steps. My teaching partner and I experienced our very first Turn and Talk as participants in a workshop by Bobb Darnell in 2008 and we’ve been using it with students and adults… Read More

Nonfiction Text Strategies

Nonfiction Text Strategies

Science news articles, social studies chapter sections, primary source documents… These are all fabulous resources to use in our classrooms! We have to make sure however, that we are teaching students how to consume the content. While our students may be able to read the words, comprehending the content within these content heavy texts requires a skillset that we need to teach explicitly.

Daily ELA Warm Ups

Daily ELA Warm Ups

As a middle school ELA teacher, I became aware very quickly that there are NOT enough minutes in a class period to possibly address all of the Common Core State Standards. After experimenting with a variety of different lesson planning and scheduling strategies, I landed on this. Whether you call them warm ups, bell ringers or do nows- those first… Read More

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Remember when they asked you where to hang the projector screen in your room??
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Bwahaha!! Just kidding- they didn’t ask ANY TEACHERS that😂
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🤷🏼‍♀️But seriously, if they HAD... where would you have asked for it to be hung? In my last classroom, I really wished it could be in the corner by the door. It was an open classroom and the other teacher and I took down the “wall” {read: chalkboards on wheels} often and taught both classes together. In those instances, we always dreamed of a place to project that everyone could see.
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🌸Well, dreams DO come true! For under $10, in fact! After experimenting with chart paper, fabric, shower curtains and other RIDICULOUS things... I landed on this great hack!
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🧰In the custom framing department at @michaelsstores , you can get an oversized foam board. You have to ask, because they are in the back. I attached mine with some @3m Command Strips and string.
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😳It’s been up for 4 years now I think. Changed my teacher life!
🌈🦄🌸What change in your room would change your teacher life??

#classroomsetup #classroomorganization ...

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Do you feeling like you are doing back flips in front of the class, but no one is REALLY with you?? Are you putting in lots of work, but they’re not??
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I get it!!! I used to hate it when plans fall flat in my room- but wowed the kids in the room across the hall. What was she doing so differently over there?? I was teaching, (I know, because I was exhausted)! So why didn’t it feel or look in my room, like it did across the hall? Those kids seemed to WANT to learn. They were so engaged. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Things were too dicey to do much more than tread water. And I often felt like I was drowning. It was so rare to focus on real TEACHING, with all of the personalities in my room.
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😳At teacher meetings, when other teachers talked so passionately about the content, I just sank into my chair, nodding along. I felt so ashamed. Passion for the content?? I could barely keep my head above water! I couldn’t talk about my struggles because they were SO different, and I’d be found out. I needed to just close my classroom door and try to keep it together. 🤷🏼‍♀️The truth was, it wasn’t going to get any better if I kept hiding. And, this wasn’t the right profession for me, if I wasn’t going to enjoy it. 🎒Now, I look forward to school every day. And I help other teachers transform their classrooms into happy, productive spaces for learning and collaborating. I teach teachers how to create classroom values, teach personal responsibility and engage students without doing backflips or wearing costumes everyday. 🖥The self-paced e-course, Classroom Systems That Work, is closing for the season at the end of August. Don’t miss this opportunity to change the way you feel about coming to work everyday. Teaching isn’t a job that you leave after 8 hours. It’s so much more and it impacts your whole life. I want you to do what you love and love what you do. Check out the link in my profile for more❤️ @ Rhode Island ...

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Do you feeling like you are doing back flips in front of the class, but no one is REALLY with you?? Are you putting in lots of work, but they’re not??
—————————————————
I get it!!! I used to hate it when plans fall flat in my room- but wowed the kids in the room across the hall. What was she doing so differently over there?? I was teaching, (I know, because I was exhausted)! So why didn’t it feel or look in my room, like it did across the hall? Those kids seemed to WANT to learn. They were so engaged.
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Things were too dicey to do much more than tread water. And I often felt like I was drowning. It was so rare to focus on real TEACHING, with all of the personalities in my room.
________________________________________
😳At teacher meetings, when other teachers talked so passionately about the content, I just sank into my chair, nodding along. I felt so ashamed. Passion for the content?? I could barely keep my head above water! I couldn’t talk about my struggles because they were SO different, and I’d be found out. I needed to just close my classroom door and try to keep it together.

🤷🏼‍♀️The truth was, it wasn’t going to get any better if I kept hiding. And, this wasn’t the right profession for me, if I wasn’t going to enjoy it.

🎒Now, I look forward to school every day. And I help other teachers transform their classrooms into happy, productive spaces for learning and collaborating. I teach teachers how to create classroom values, teach personal responsibility and engage students without doing backflips or wearing costumes everyday.

🖥The self-paced e-course, Classroom Systems That Work, is closing for the season at the end of August. Don’t miss this opportunity to change the way you feel about coming to work everyday. Teaching isn’t a job that you leave after 8 hours. It’s so much more and it impacts your whole life. I want you to do what you love and love what you do. Check out the link in my profile for more❤️ ...

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Do you feeling like you are doing back flips in front of the class, but no one is REALLY with you?? Are you putting in lots of work, but they’re not??
—————————————————
I get it!!! I used to hate it when plans fall flat in my room- but wowed the kids in the room across the hall. What was she doing so differently over there?? I was teaching, (I know, because I was exhausted)! So why didn’t it feel or look in my room, like it did across the hall? Those kids seemed to WANT to learn. They were so engaged.
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Things were too dicey, to do much more than tread water. And I often felt like I was drowning. It was so rare to focus on real TEACHING, with all of the personalities in my room.
________________________________________
😳At teacher meetings, when other teachers talked so passionately about the content, I just sank into my chair, nodding along. I felt so ashamed. Passion for the content?? I could barely keep my head above water! I couldn’t talk about my struggles because they were SO different, and I’d be found out. I needed to just close my classroom door and try to keep it together.

🤷🏼‍♀️The truth was, it wasn’t going to get any better if I kept hiding. And, this wasn’t the right profession for me, if I wasn’t going to enjoy it.

🎒Now, I look forward to school every day. And I help other teachers transform their classrooms into happy, productive spaces for learning and collaborating. I teach teachers how to create classroom values, teach personal responsibility and engage students without doing backflips or wearing costumes everyday.

🖥The self-paced e-course, Classroom Systems That Work, is closing for the season at the end of August. Don’t miss this opportunity to change the way you feel about coming to work everyday. Teaching isn’t a job that you leave after 8 hours. It’s so much more and it impacts your whole life. I want you to do what you love and love what you do. ...

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