Student learning is no accident!
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. Now What Now, you’re ready to make this new space work for you. One of the biggest challenges to… 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
The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
The science is clear: Drawing beats out reading and writing to help students remember concepts.Let me guess:
There are still a few stragglers who don’t quite know ALL their facts. And you can’t possibly spend a ton of class time on it, because they SHOULD know them?
Head over to my blog for a great solution to THAT problem.
But first, do you think your kids would know their tables a little better if they practiced with these?? Go grab just the tables or need- or a whole bundle in my TPT store!!
Shoutout to all the #preschoolteachers who actually TEACH amazing little humans WHILE making parents feel like their kids made these adorable crafts🥰😘
#mothersday
Looking for a great warm up/ bellringer/ do now to kick off your ELA class today? Have a Thoughtful Thursday! #ntchat #elateachers #middleschool #walktomoons #kindness #charactereducation #writesolutions #warmups #iteachenglish #iteachtoo
