Just yesterday, my 4th grade team got together to discuss the end of the year events and found ourselves overwhelmed with everything that needs to get done. Now here is the irony – we have steadily complained about the late end to the school year (June 27), often joking about how we will have so [...]
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Practice what I preach…that has been a saying in the back of my head for the last few weeks. Our state testing for math starts today and it has been a real challenge balancing test prep with innovative, meaningful teaching. In the past few weeks, I’ve had to squeeze in math topics we hadn’t gotten [...]
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It started over a decade ago as my personal style of teaching; a manner of integrating the music I love into my teaching. In no time, I began to write down my ideas and lessons in a book entitled Inspired by Listening, published it and started selling. Soon it was a personal mission to get [...]
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A few days after FCAT, my principal sent around an email advertising the 2010 Lee County Student Film Festival. I asked my class if they would be interested in making a movie. They were astoundingly enthusiastic about it. They decided they wanted to make an animation, a stop motion animation like we made together when [...]
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Glasser-Sterling has a much wider scope then I have described it, so when I say I used as much as I could…it amounted to not much, considering the scope of it as a whole. So, I changed my classroom rules. Instead of follow directions, stay on task, and show respect, they became: be prompt, be [...]
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Sorry, nothing about Miley Cyrus in this blog post. I am not reviewing the Star Trek episode of the same name, but the uncoincidental use of that as my post title, may not be lost on Star Trek fans that choose to read my words. In reflecting back on this school year, I find myself [...]
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I want to first thank Elizabeth for inviting me to share a little bit of my thoughts here. I am so fortunate to have people like her in my network to learn from. I am on my day #4 of summer vacation. It’s very early – my body is still in school mode. I am [...]
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This is my last week of school… in fact, tomorrow is my last day! So these last two days have been all about cleaning: cleaning out cubbies, desks and shelves, cleaning up materials, putting things away, boxing up books, Cloroxing surfaces and, for me, the most painful – recycling workbooks! Let’s talk recycling workbooks for [...]
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Last week, I took my kids outside and for the first time, I let them run around while I . . . wait for it . . . READ! For nearly 30 uninterrupted minutes! It was amazing: relaxing and invigorating all at once. The best part was that I was reading something that was unrelated [...]
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