Today, I am blogging over at The Elementary Entourage for the first time ever! Swing by a take a peek at my ever-evolving lesson planning style, learn about how Google Docs made me a paperless planning fanatic, and gather other amazing planning tips from my Elementary Entourage blogging family. Also
I’ve rewritten the beginning of this post about five times now due to extreme sleep deprivation. I know you feel my pain when I say…I had my first back to school dream last night…followed by me waking up to create labels for my math center drawers…at 3:30 a.m. No logic
Welcome to the premiere post for what is sure to be your new favorite teacher blogger link up…Books Bloggers Love. Each month, 12 teacher bloggers will be linking up to share our favorite books for that month/time of year and giving you a peek at a few ideas for incorporating
At this year’s second annual Teachers Pay Teachers Pay Teachers Premium Sellers Conference, over 1,000 TPT teacher authors gathered in Vegas to learn and connect. Every session and meet up I attended was flooded with smiling faces and warm welcomes from like-minded teacher authors. Every ah-ha moment was delivered by successful, top
I’m thrilled to be a guest blogger on Rachel’s Lynette’s endlessly resourceful education blog, Minds In Bloom. Hop over to my guest post to get a closer look at my favorite math routine Write To Explain. You can also grab my latest FREEBIE to help you launch this rigorous math
A few of the learning principles that help us revolutionize learning in our district are to nurture a growth mindset, empower students and value the learning process just as much as the outcome. After last year’s Open House, several teachers came to realize the district’s traditional end-of-school-year Open House didn’t
One of our challenges as teachers is to help students learn the difference between tattling and reporting. Often, students who tattle simply need an outlet to be heard. Rather than spending time after recess sorting through playground woes, have students record their concerns on a piece of paper and place
This week, I’m linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for another Five for Friday post. ONE: Back To School After Winter Break Regardless of how many years I teach, it always shocks me how tired I am after we’ve had a school break. The students always come back so energized and
Teaching data = bliss. Most kids are thrilled when you ask them to look at an organized visual and answer questions about it. I remember thinking as a kid…”This is math?! I’m on board!” There’s just something about reading a graph that revitalizes your love for math. It’s a breath of fresh
I’m linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her weekly Five for Friday Linky! ONE: 100th DAY OF SCHOOL Tuesday was our 100th day of school and the first time I have ever “celebrated” this day – yet another adjustment to becoming a primary teacher. I used these adorable 100th day printables to give
This week, we celebrated our knowledge about measuring length in our First Annual Measure-Thon! This multi-day math simulation was the highlight of my second graders’ school week. I was so amped when they made giddy little back-and-forth hand movements each morning when they saw “Measure-Thon” written on the schedule. I
Education Week’s article Differentiation Doesn’t Work by James R. Delisle is floating around teacher social media outlets like crazy right now. It was also presented at our professional development session today as an introduction to a day filled with taking differentiation from theory to practice. The end viewpoint, that we should begin a tracking