Building Community in the Classroom: Flipgrid
I’ve been thinking a lot about next year. The next school year will look nothing like past years, and most likely school will be some sort of hybrid where I…
Read MorePeardeck: a Tool for Teaching Punctuation Templates
As the year comes to the close, I end my second year of teaching grammar in a unique way. My school, for good or bad, does not teach grammar in…
Read MoreWord Clouds in Teaching Free Words In Night
Years ago, I found a really great resource for teaching Night. One of the activities in it had students make a list of Free Words. Here’s how I explain the…
Read MoreProject-based Learning: Acting Projects for A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Macbeth
This year I changed how I teach Shakespeare a lot. After taking the Folger Shakespeare Library class last summer, I revised my teaching practices for Shakespeare. I got “out of…
Read MoreJust Mercy: A Challenge to Be the Change You Want to See in the World
When I started reading Just Mercy, I was trying to figure out something that was twofold: how did I want this book to affect my teaching, and how do I use it with students who have never read it since I teach freshmen and sophomores?
Read MoreSummer PD with the Folger Shakespeare Library
So for the last two weeks, I’ve been immersed an online class with the Folger Shakespeare Library. One of my professional development goals was trying to better myself and knowledge of my content. Usually, the Folger does in-person summer institutes. I didn’t realize we were one of the first of their online opportunities, but I’m so grateful for the opportunity to take a meaningful class for free and weave it in when it was convenient.
Read MorePear Deck Update with Google Slides for the Win!
Even though I’ve been in the classroom in person or virtually every year since 1999, I’m back to being new again, hopefully for the last time. This means I have…
Read MoreBack in the classroom and integrating technology
So I had a great week being back in the classroom after taking a year off of teaching to be home with my boys. I enjoyed being director of instructional…
Read MoreDeciding when to unplug when planning lessons
So last night my husband and I were out way too late at the Coldplay concert, and Chris Martin did something that I found extremely interesting during the song “Charlie…
Read MoreIn Denial: Goodbye, Summer
So I’m sure I am not alone in feeling this….the dread of the summer being over and the feeling of being overwhelmed about the new school year. While I don’t…
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