I am still having issues with my site! Please bare with me as I try to get them fixed. Somehow, I keep losing blog posts! They are only saving temporarily and I have no way of getting them back without redoing them. I hope to have the site operational soon. Thanks for your patience and …
This week, I tested out one of my new products in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store! My students used their phones to scan QR Codes and participate in a Cartoon Character Scavenger Hunt. To complete the activity, the students had to scan the code. Each code linked to a description of one of the cartoon characters. …
After a year as a Curriculum Coach, I have decided to return to the classroom. I miss the students. I miss the feeling of accomplishment. I miss creating lesson plans and developing activities. I just miss teaching! The thing is, however, I am not only returning to the classroom in a new district but a …
I recently attended a professional development session with Eric Jensen, the author of Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind and other books about brain-based learning and teaching. Although I had skimmed the book Teaching with Poverty in Mind, I was prepared for a long day! When I walked in and saw the tables filled, I …
Long time, no blog!!! I have been busy working in my new capacity and have not had much time to blog! Teachers return next week so it will be a couple of more weeks before I am active again. I still have several things that need to move from my previous sites and tons of …
When I started this site about a month ago, it was to share my adventures in the classroom. With a lot of praying and deliberating, I have been offered and have take a job as a middle school curriculum coach. Although this is my career of choice, I am very nervous and apprehensive about the …
I took a trip this weekend to Barnes & Noble and decided to pick up a few books to add to my summer reading list. As a prepare for next year, I needed something that will add a new perspective on strategies, activities, and lesson plan ideas that are already in my repertoire. I will …
When I tell people that I am implementing the flipped classroom model, the first thing most of them want to know is how much prep time is involved. Initially, there is A LOT of prep time involved. You have to create and/or search for videos for the content you want to present to the students. …
I am nearing the end of my my first year flipping and I am contemplating on changes I want to make during the upcoming year. I know the first thing I will do this summer will be to record my lessons with me in the video (following the FIZZ model from NC State). I currently …
One of the things I love to do in class is to use reading groups or literature circles. This is especially effective if you have groups of students at different readiness levels. I group students and assign novels or stories based on their abilities and have them translate, answer questions, and analyze what they read. …
