Student learning is no accident!
Using Sentence Stems and Explicit Instruction for Classroom Discussions Teaching discussion skills can be daunting! You know you want productive, positive discussions… but how do you get there? Here’s some of what works for me! Body Language & Politeness Matter Eye Contact: looking directly at the speaker lets them know they have your attention Inviting Posture: Facing your body toward… 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. Now What Now, you’re ready to make this new space work for you. One of the biggest challenges to… Read More
I used to cringe watching students stuff papers into their folders to be lost in the locker abyss… after I had spent so much time thoughtfully providing feedback on their work!! I spend so much time writing thoughtful questions about their math thinking and comments aimed at pushing their scientific curiosity… It was killing me to know that none of… Read More
We have moved on to subtraction with renaming (2.NBT.7). You might call this regrouping… but really- if we think literally about what’s happening- we’re also giving the values new names! 50+10 is a different name for 60. So, renaming, regrouping… you know what we’re doing! What’s Working I’ve been doing a lot of this work with students in small groups…. Read More
In my second grade classroom, I’ve recently identified a troubling gap in my students’ learning… Counting. I know how important counting is… and we have been counting all year. We count while we wait in line, we count backwards and forwards, by 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s and more. We start in the hundreds, we start in the teens… So, why… 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
Already thinking about how you’d like to change things? Which would be a game changers for you next year?? #classroomreset #ntchat #classroomsystemsthatwork
Summer 2019. They like playing with each other more than me. There’s always something to dig and dump. And their imaginative play is AMAZING!
🎙I’m doing my best to record snippets here and there so we can remember their little voices saying the sweetest things about building sites and excavators and feeding babies.
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📸How do you capture the moments you want to remember in 20 years?
Give me all you tips! #makingmemories #thedaysarelongbuttheyearsareshort @ Blackstone, Massachusetts
How do you group students?? Sometimes it’s random like this for me! More often though, it’s engineered😂😂😂
I’ll be sharing a whole bunch of ways I group students over the next few weeks. Having systems to manage essentials like student groupings helps classrooms run like productive communities, where the focus is teaching and learning.
Checkout the link in the comments so you don’t miss any of my Classroom Systems that Work!! #studentteacher #educoach #teacherhacks
How do you group students?? Sometimes it’s random like this for me! More often though, it’s engineered😂😂😂
I’ll be sharing a whole bunch of ways I group students over the next few weeks. Having systems to manage essentials like student groupings helps classrooms run like productive communities, where the focus is teaching and learning.
Checkout the #linkinbio so you don’t miss any of my Classroom Systems that Work!! #studentteacher
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Hard-Hitting Nature Valley Ad Shows The Terrifying Side Of Kids Addicted To Technology
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