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Endings, Beginnings, and the Waiting in Between
Well, friends, another school year has come and gone. Bean and Gracie have continued to grow, despite every direct order I have given them to knock that crap off. They have made new…
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New Year. New School. New Classroom.
Last week, I started working officially at my new school. I had been waiting all summer to meet my new team of teachers and I was so relieved when we finally got to…
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When Boggle Boards Go Wrong
One of the bulletin boards in my classroom is an extra credit “Boggle Board” assignment. Every Monday, I put up new letters and students have until Friday to submit their Boggle Board worksheet…
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If You Want Something Done, You’ve Got to Make It Yourself!
This past December was the end of the first semester at my school. Like most schools, endings of weeks, months, quarters, semesters usually mean reports are due for teachers. I was sifting through…
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Classroom Tour 2016-2017
Imaginary friends, how I have missed you so! I have been swept up in the back to school craze of pre-planning. By the end of the day, my brain is shot, my feet…
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The Voices Inside My Teacher Brain
Sometimes when I tell people that I am a middle school teacher, they give me these horrified looks and say something like, “Are you INSANE?” And I usually just laugh and say something like,…
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If You Give a Teacher a Summer Vacation…
Last Friday, I had to go to the grocery store. Simple enough task, right? We had a ton of food leftover from the Fourth of July, and our family had been eating hot…
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A Day in the Life: Teacher Edition
If you’ve been around here long enough, you know that I am an eighth grade language arts teacher. If you’ve been around here even LONGER, then you know that this is a career…
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A Celebratory Splurge
A few weeks ago, my principal asked me to go on the morning announcements one morning to share some information about a fundraiser I am doing with a club that I am the…
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Surviving Survival Mode
Oh, my. The last two weeks have kicked my booty, friends. We have been in survival mode around here lately, but I think we are finally coming out of it. I can’t remember…
