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Things You Would Have Heard Me Say in my Classroom on Thursday
Often I will say things out loud at school and think either, “I bet this is the first time that sentence has ever been said out loud,” or “If someone heard that out of context, they would think I am...
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7 Things You and I Both Need This Teacher Appreciation Week
My first Teacher Appreciation Week as a teacher was a real eye-opener. I’d heard that the principal (this was at my last school/district) was notorious for either not mentioning teachers at...
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One of my students cried during silent reading. I wrote him this letter.
For our fiction unit we did a few months ago, I had my students preview eight fiction books and then choose one to read and discuss in small literature circles. One of the books was The Book Thief by...
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7 Signs It's the End of the Year
Because I’m normal, I often imagine what it would be like to time travel. Because I’m weird, I also often wonder: if I time-traveled and didn't know to which time period I was going, would I be able to...
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10 Disjointed Thoughts and Reflections on the End of the Year and The...
Man.I had every intention of writing up this really cool, powerful, funny end-of-year post. But guess what? MY BRAIN DON’T WORK. So instead, I’m going to leave you with a list of thoughts. Some are...
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Four reasons I hate (and am terrible at) small talk
I used to be the Chuck Norris of social interactions.By this I mean that I used to be awesome at speaking to people I didn't know well. I could talk to anyone I met and managed to navigate a...
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The First Half of My Summer in Pictures (Alternative title: Why I No Longer...
Hello! Hiatus is hi-over!First of all, HOW ABOUT MY NEW LOOK? A thousand hugs, running high-fives, and t-shirt cannons to The Bow and Quiver for my beautiful new chalkboardy blog. Crazy talent over...
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5 Motivational Posters You Can Make for Your Home or Classroom, All While...
Well, I think the title of this post is sufficient as an explanation not only for the post itself, but for why my life is one giant contradiction.I’m housesitting right now for my parents right now,...
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A Letter to Myself On My First Day of Teaching
Pictured: my rare mahogany shoe rack that I use as a coffee table (oops), a fake letter I didn't finish writing, and the world's best writing instrument, a Uni-Ball Vision Elite Micro.A few months ago,...
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10 Teaching Inventions I Wish Existed
Summer means I have lots of time to do important thinking, which this morning has meant coming up with this list of teaching inventions I wish existed. 1) Grading machineYou'll notice that it looks...
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