Monday Must Reads: Volume 66
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4y ago
It's Monday! For my school, that means it's a distance learning drill day. We are face-to-face Tuesday through Friday. Each Monday, we have a distance learning day to practice learning digitally in case we need to pivot to full-time distance learning. I don't know how those of you who are teaching virtually everyday are doing it. After six google meets in the span of three hours, I am exhausted. So kudos to those of you doing this everyday. I am in awe of you. You are amazing.  I should really be planning lessons for the rest of this week, but I decided to take a bit of a break to scroll ..read more
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Goals for the 2020-2021 School Year - PANDEMIC STYLE
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4y ago
Earlier this month, I shared the files and inspiration behind my 2020-2021 lesson plan book. One of my new pages for this year is a goals page. I decided I wanted to pick 5 priorities for this school year and commit them to writing. My plan is that once per month, I will reflect on how I'm doing and how I can further improve. So, what are my goals for 2020-2021? 1. Google Classroom 2. Parent/Student Contact Log 3. Blog Regularly as Reflective Practice 4. Stop Reinventing the Wheel When I Don't Have To 5. Desmos Computational Layer I'll elaborate on each below. Google Classroom This is ..read more
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New Puzzle: Only 'Takes' and 'Adds'
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4y ago
I did a lot of thinking this summer about how I wanted to incorporate puzzles into my classroom this year. Over the last few years, puzzles are one of the things I've become known for sharing on my blog. Hello, I have an entire page on my blog dedicated to all things puzzles. There are so many excellent puzzles out there in the world, but my favorites for the classroom are those that involve pieces to manipulate. I love putting magnets on the back of each piece and hanging the puzzle up on my dry erase board for students to play with throughout the week. We've been teaching face-to-face ..read more
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Monday Must Reads: Volume 65
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4y ago
Wow! It's been a long time since I last sat down in April to put together a Monday Must Reads post. I usually take a break from these posts during the summer, but the craziness of this pandemic meant an extra long break this time. Anyway...I'm excited to be sharing with you today some of the awesomeness of other teachers on twitter that has been sitting in my Twitter likes for the last five months. I hope you find some inspiring ideas to use in your own classroom. There are a ton more digital ideas than normal in this Monday's round-up, but I guess that's to be expected. Check out this ope ..read more
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Five Tiny Wins
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4y ago
It's Friday. I'm not really sure what day it actually feels like, but it definitely doesn't feel like a Friday. At the same time, I'm sooooooooooo thankful it is Friday because I'm experiencing a level of teacher exhaustion that I didn't really know existed. Seriously, I don't think I was this tired last year when I had a crying newborn who woke me up a million times a night. Teaching math in the midst of a pandemic is definitely not for the faint of heart. Today I want to take a chance to focus on some tiny wins from the last couple of weeks.  Win # 1: (More) Organized Baking Supplies ..read more
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Sharing my Lesson Plan Book
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4y ago
I got a ton of questions when I shared a sneak peek of my lesson plan book for this year. And I was even more shocked when several people asked if I could share the file I created.  Why was I shocked? Confession time. I am not the greatest at lesson plans. Oh, I could crank out lesson plans when I was in college that would get me an A+ from my education professor. He required us to write out scripts for each lesson and add a million other things. A good lesson plan was at least ten pages. The thicker the stack of pages we turned in, the better. We all know that's not how lesson plans ..read more
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Digital Activities Repository
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4y ago
I've been blogging for over nine years now. And, those nine years have been full of resource sharing. Now, it feels like the tables have turned with the pandemic. Instead of me sharing resources with you guys, I keep getting all these emails, DMs, tweets, etc full of links to virtual/digital versions of the activities I've blogged about over the years. This has been amazing, but I haven't done a very good job of organizing all these links. I especially haven't done a good job of sharing them. As a result, many of you are recreating the same activities over and over. So, I've decided to dedicat ..read more
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Back to School Prep
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4y ago
This year's back to school prep looks different than normal. If it were a normal school year, I would be spending the last week of summer laminating everything within sight. I would be spending as much time as possible in my classroom. Not this year. Oh, I've got plenty to do. But, I've been waiting to find out for sure what I'm teaching this year before I do too much prep. And, I only found out my teaching schedule yesterday. This year I will be teaching 4 hours of Pre-Calculus/Trigonometry, 1 hour of Statistics (non-AP), and 1 hour of Algebra 2 (on-level). Today's big accomplishment was ..read more
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Change of Plans
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4y ago
Well, my Blaugust Challenge isn't exactly going to plan. I did really well and blogged for the first three days of August. Then, life happened. And, now it's August 10th. Oops. There's been a bit of a change of plans since I last wrote a blog post. In my district, teachers were supposed to report August 6th, and students were to start classes on August 12th. Our student start date has since been pushed back to August 26th. As this change happened just days before we were to report back for PD days, there were some scheduled trainings that couldn't be rescheduled. As a result, it's been an e ..read more
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Shifting my Perspective
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4y ago
I started writing this as a blog post about how I've been working on cultivating healthy and productive habits in my life since school shut down in March. It turned into a rambling reflection on my morning walk and what I can take away from it and apply to the upcoming school year. While it's not exactly what I was going for, I guess it still means I have a blog post idea for tomorrow which will be Day 4 of the MTBoS Blaugust Blogging Challenge. This morning I did NOT want to go for a walk. I wasn't feeling the greatest, but I'll spare you the details. Shaun even suggested at one point amidst ..read more
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