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Because Abe Lincoln Said So
Our kids come into our classrooms each day and go home to a world where they are surrounded by technology. I could make “Do not copy or paste from the internet” a classroom rule. Or, instead, I...
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Education Is Full Of Hope
There are lots of things we cannot control. Sometimes absolutely zero control. People who aren’t in education for the right reasons. Testing mandates. Kids’ troubled home lives. The media’s portrayal...
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Unexplained Amazing
She hears the buzz of the lights that fall silent on most ears. The tag in your shirt that slightly bugs your back is like a knife sticking into hers. The water droplets from the pool sting on her...
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Learning is Priceless
Schools do so much formal planning to try to make learning happen. Charting standards, writing tests, rewriting tests, creating pages and pages of documents to record learning, developing lengthy...
View ArticleDo You Believe In Me?
Nine year old Dalton Sherman addresses the Dallas ISD… ”Here’s the deal: I can do anything, be anything, create anything, dream anything, become anything — because you believe in me, and it rubs off...
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Footprints on the Moon
Click to download. Do you ever stop and think about the things you do each day? The things that last? The things that stick in the mind of a child or a colleague for years to come. The little kind...
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The 3Rs
When we really stop and think about what engagement looks like in our classrooms, can we define it? More importantly, can we recognize it when it’s happening? When I think about learning, I know if it...
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It’s Time to Really Embrace Creativity
I don’t think creativity is welcome in education. Not the way it should be. Schools and classrooms should be oozing with creativity. Because kids are oozing with creativity. Sure, we have things to...
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Worksheets Are Awesome
Worksheets are awesome. Imagine the learning that you can do with them. 1.) Ask each student to take the 8.5 by 11 worksheet and create an airplane, in their own design, that will fly the farthest on...
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Looking Back
Today I found something I hadn’t seen for almost 18 years. It was a speech I wrote for my high school graduation. I was positive I wanted to become a surgeon, a pediatric surgeon to be exact. I loved...
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Exactly What Kids Need
Learning. It’s what we were born with an instinct and natural curiosity to do. It’s almost undefinable. But, it’s the thing I love most about working in a school. Our schools should be alive with...
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A Part of the Journey
You know when you have one of THOSE days. The great ones. The kids make you laugh extra hard. A turning point occurs with an issue that you’ve been working so hard to have an impact on. You get one...
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Your Comfort Zone is Overrated
I think about this a lot. Your comfort zone as a teacher. It’s everything in the beginning. Finding what works. Finding what doesn’t. Knowing your kids. Making sure your kids know you. You are not...
View ArticleLet’s Go Places
At the close of every school year, I celebrate one final night with my 6th grade students. I love to leave them with something to think about. Something to inspire. One year, I shared the Apple...
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Taking Thinking To A Higher Level
Kids explored wool’s absorbency. Our classes are in the midst of planning for the NASA Reduced Gravity Flight coming up this summer. When I announced I was accepted to this, I was over the moon....
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Believe There Is Good
Our hearts go out to Boston. To the kids who will look to us and ask why and how, we may not know the answers, but there is one thing we know for sure… our students ARE the good in this world. Tweet
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