Student learning is no accident!
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
A while back I took stock of what we were doing as a math department to improve kids’ math fluency. It seemed that every year we had a chunk of kids who came up to sixth grade with amazing fact fluency. We had another chunk who fought with basic addition and multiplication much like struggling readers fought with multisyllabic words…. Read More
Sometimes we all just need a classroom reset. Do you want your students to behave or do you want more than that? If you spend all day managing behaviors, you are EXHAUSTED by 3:00. I know!!! I’ve been there. It takes so much mental energy, so much executive functioning to anticipate every fire that might start- and to put out… Read More
In a well-run classroom, the teacher is not doing all the work. He or she creates the conditions for learning, plans the lessons, tracks student progress. These are major tasks, no question about it! Students though…
In the next few posts, I’m going to focus on Differentiating Instruction in the Math Classroom. I will give you three strategies you can use immediately in the lessons you already have planned- to reach all of those kids! I promise not to ask you to do ANYTHING that wastes your time. I promise to only save you time.
If you’re thinking about fractions, you might be a 5th grade teacher… Thanks to the Common Core State Standards, fifth grade now throws the wildest fraction party on the block! I taught 6th grade math back when that was fraction central, and I learned 3 key things along the way. They have been just applicable in the 5th grade classrooms… 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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