Kya remembered Ma always encouraging her to explore the marsh: “Go as far as you can—way out yonder where the crawdads sing.” I must confess that I don’t read as much as I probably should and when my 3 teaching friends from the We Teach So Hard podcast suggested that we each read a book, and come up with questions,…
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Music to Calm the Soul and Enhance Learning
“Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.” Ludwig van Beethoven. Why is it that for many of us, music is an essential part of our personal lives yet when we go to work or school we turn it off? As educators, it can be our #BFF and I’ll tell you why in this…
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The Poet Inside Us
There are many wonderful poets out there, but one of my favorites was someone who is relatively unknown, a poet named Walter Rinder from San Francisco. When I was a twenty-ish young woman, starting out on my own, I often felt the pangs of lost loves while dreaming of my Prince Charming swooping me up on his white horse and…
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A Stranger in a Strange Classroom, It’s Standardized Testing Time!
For a multitude of teachers and kids, the anticipation of spring and excitement of summer break are shrouded by stressful thoughts that emerge during testing season. Of course, if you’re an educator, you can’t get away from it, stress is your ever present companion, it’s an inherent part of the job, especially during this time of year. To add insult…
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Great Books To Use With Your Social Studies Curriculum
Since March is Book Month, I’ve decided to share some awesome novels to read aloud or individually that will enhance your Ancient History Social Studies curriculum. I love making history come alive for my students and when they read historical fiction novels that supplement it, they can relate much easier. Since I taught ELA/Social Studies, I was able to #kill2birdswithonestone…
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How to Make a Fashion Statement in Your Classroom and Look Professional
I don’t know about you, but when I was teaching, I would have loved wearing a sweatshirt, sweatpants, torn jeans and flip-flops to work. Buuut, there was always that little voice inside of me saying, “Noooo, you can’t wear that, you’re a teacher, you need to look the part,” unless of course, it’s dress down day. That being…
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