Student learning is no accident!
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
You finally have your own classroom!!! No more shuffling around on a cart, lugging your whole life with you every period of the day… no more “borrowing” other teachers’ classrooms and hoping you left them as neat as you found them. Make it the classroom of your dreams!!! Now What Now, you’re ready to make this new space work for… Read More
The view from down here. “It all falls on the classroom teacher, it always does” she reminded me. This was my mother. A retired elementary school teacher, who had made it the long haul. In the classroom for her entire career, advocating for kids, mentoring new teachers- reminding me when I express frustration in the system that, I shouldn’t be… Read More
I frequent a Sunday night Twitter chat, #edchatri, where amazing educators from all over the US help me approach the coming school week with the right attitude. During these chats, I discover amazing resources shared by fellow educators, who I now consider to be my colleagues, despite the geography that separates us. There are some Sunday nights that the quantity… Read More
For the last two years I have been welcomed into many classrooms as a coach, or as my favorite mentor Jan so accurately describes: a thought partner. When she used that language two years ago during our first New Teacher Center Mentor Academy, I had no idea just how connected I would feel to that phrase today. I have partnered… Read More
You HAVE to watch this video. Right. Now.
February vacation 2020
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🌈My kids’ requests🌈
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🌼We can make all of this happen.
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🌸I love this time of life when their wildest dreams are this big 😍.
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🧸I love that before bed they ask, “is tomorrow another Mama Day??” And their favorite answer is yes. 💓
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🤞🏼Trying to stay healthy heading into February vacation😳
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It’s not teachers.
I think🤞🏼 people in the rest of the world might actually be starting to get that these days. I hope I’m right!!
Teachers fight hard. They push the limits. They say too much and push too hard... to get kids what they KNOW they need. There are so many (shhhhh!!!) off limits topics. So many things teachers shouldn’t say out loud, because well... money usually.
Teachers KNOW when a student needs a different service or placement or intervention... even if it isn’t available.
Teachers know when things aren’t running smoothly, when the environment has been compromised, and teaching and learning are in danger.
They know a lot, but can only say so much. Teachers love their schools, and their kids too- and sometimes those things are at odds. And that’s a TOUGH position to be in.
Thanks for all you do. For the weight on your heart, for the tough decisions that keep you up at night. For all the times you’ve asked yourself, “what if it were my kid...”
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