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Read MorePhysical touch is a huge part of learning and creating a classroom community. I’m talking high-fives and pats on the back. Students giving each other hugs or, if they’re younger, their teachers a hug. Sharing supplies with each other, lending a helping hand, sitting knee to knee during circle time. How can students and teachers build a class community when humans rely so much on touch, yet right now, that physical touch is not allowed?
Read MoreMatilda’s delivers the flowers to your door in the San Francisco Bay Area and also in Austin and Houston, TX. Bonus: they have gift deliveries ($39 + Shipping) available in the same areas. The best part is that is not a subscription; you get to select what weeks you want your flowers delivered. They give you a preview so you can decide if those flowers would work for you.
Read MoreI’m going to go on record and just say it. Hybrid teaching sucks. Like sucks the living life out you. It is an energy vampire. I would like to see anyone try to be engaging to both in-person students and students on-line at the same time. It is like being pulled in two different directions all day. At some point you just feel like no one is getting the best of you. Not the in-person kids, and not the kids on-line. And… permission to speak freely here? That’s ok! You’re doing the best you can. You are doing the impossible. I could go on and on about how amazing you are, but instead what I am going to provide are some easy strategies to make concurrent teaching just a little less sucky.
Read MoreWe humans are emotional creatures at heart and our emotions can run the gamut and change with the wind. Knowing how to harness the wind and knowledge emotions can be very helpful for producing energy and learning respectively. The four knowledge emotions are surprise, interest, confusion, and awe. These emotions help students open their minds to learning.
Read MoreSo you bought a new Peloton bike? Now what?
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Read MoreThere is a common misconception that learning disabilities only start to appear and can be tested starting in 3rd grade at the earliest. Here is the problem with that: students with learning disabilities have differences in the structure and function of their brains. This doesn’t happen in 3rd grade. The sooner students can get help for their learning disability, the sooner the issues can be corrected allowing for students to need less specialized instruction in the upper grades. When is it time to ask for help?
Read MoreBelow is a list of some of my favorite picture books for elementary school age students as well as books that I own in my own personal library. We read for thirty minutes every night before bed as part of our bedtime routine and some of these books get read multiple times a week as they are family favorites.
Read MoreThis new year has brought some big changes to this momma’s life. My kiddo went from an in-home daycare where breakfast and lunch were provided, to a preschool where now I must provide breakfast for my toddler before she leaves for school and pack her a nutritious lunch that she wants to eat (and, when she compares it to the other kids, she won’t just throw out).
Read on to see how I manage my mornings on most work days.
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I just finished reading Teaching for Deeper Learning by Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver. It is a teaching book on how to teach so that students thrive and learn at a deep level. Let me tell you, the title lives up to the name. Here are some of my takeaways:
