Making a change or transitioning…this is the question for me. I recently blogged about my new position for the upcoming school year. I am going from a kindergarten classroom teacher in my current district to K-6 instructional coach in a
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Shifting Spotlight
“You are going to feel weird all year long,” a teacher said to me at the beginning of the year in my new position as Instructional Support Teacher. Like many veteran teachers trying to impart the wisdom they have gained
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Math Teachers Summer Reading Fun
Some months ago in Content Reading As Teacher Self-Care I wrote that counterintuitive as it sounds, reading in our content areas, in addition to our normal workload, can amount to self-care. That’s because reading a good content book can reconnect
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Rivers, Vulnerability and Bridges
I serve as Elementary Team Lead and facilitate our team meetings. It comes as no surprise that teachers cannot teach what they do not know. Therefore I do my best to ensure our Professional Learning Community Meetings (PLCs) provide opportunities
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Celebrate!
It happened. We waited for two years. We rescheduled, waited, and watched. Then we did that some more. A few months turned into a year, then two years. Then it finally happened. We celebrated. One of my favorite events is
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Signing the Contract
These were my choices: Check here if you accept your contract for the 22-23 school year_________ Check here if you DO NOT accept your contract for the 22-23 school year _______ This time I checked that I did not accept
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Teaching Future Teachers
Twice a year I get invited to present to a classroom full of future educators. I get to visit during their high school teacher week; a panel of history, CTE, language, special education teachers, and me. In a college class
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Get Them Talking
I hate the phrase learning loss and I refuse to use it. I don’t believe students “lost” learning or their ability to learn. What I do believe is that two years of learning during a pandemic has created a situation
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Always read the fine print: 1. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. 2. We believe marriage is ordained by God, and joins one man and one woman in a single union. These
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Two Years Later…
Has it already been two years? Some people read that with a different tone. Some people read that with the feeling of, “Wow has it been that long already?” Others read it with a feeling of, “I can’t believe this
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