one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve Ah! Back-to-school shopping... the joyful journey begins. Today is the first day for early access to nordstroms anniversary sale-- well depending on your cardmember status. You can find out your cardmember status by logging into your account or si[...]
c/o: frankie4 For some of us it may be too early to start talking about back-to-school things-- I totally get it... However, this year, I am not one of those teachers :) It's hard enough to contain my excitement about my classroom next year and even harder to contain my excitement about back-to-school shopping. I've missed it. Two[...]
I've been overwhelmed with the emotion of it all-- realizing i'm officially going back into the classroom as a full time special education teacher, the beauty in the entirety of the story, and finally being able to close a two year run-on chapter. Trying to put pen to paper has been hard because every time the journey replays right b[...]
Where I started the 2016-2017 school year and where I was sitting when I got the "check-in" e-mail that changed my life. Angel use to sit in this classroom with me. Sometimes we have to go forward to go backwards. There are also times in our lives when the only way for the gate to our future to open is to lose everything we thought w[...]
My favorite part about guest teaching is having the opportunity to repeat teach in the various classrooms and watching the kids faces light up when you're back. I've always been really big on building relationships with kids and wasn't sure exactly how to do that when you only spend a day with a group of kids... and sometimes even less t[...]
A few weeks ago I shared one of my favorite strategies when running my own classroom and guest teaching. So far, it's had a 100% success rate through my journey of being a substitute teacher. I've had a lot of people reach out with additional questions or asking where to find the information so... I thought I would put it in a blog post.[...]