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New year, new organized you, right? About 4 years ago I made a New Year’s resolution to not spend as much time on “school stuff” when I was at home. The biggest “school stuff” time sucker? Grading papers! Night after night I was sitting on the couch checking, marking, and grading mounds of student papers and I was D.O.N.E with it!… Read More
STEM is such an important part of the 21st-century classroom. But creating a STEM Lab in your classroom (or even just starting STEM activities!) can be super intimidating! There are just so many STEM materials for the classroom! Which ones are best? So, today I’m sharing 10 of my MUST-HAVEs materials for your classroom STEM Lab! Many of these classroom STEM… Read More
The school I worked at this past year was REALLY focused on STEM. I mean like really focused. Like so focused, the teachers worked to turn the old Media Center into a STEAM Lab complete with Lego wall, Makerspace, robots, and magnetic whiteboard wall for marble mazes. I brought my 5th-grade class down there on an almost weekly basis as STEM and… Read More
How many times have you’ve been called up to a meeting at the last minute? No time dig around for student scores, wonder where you put that intervention data, and definitely no time to wonder where those sight words and DRA cards are!! After quite a few run-ins with this scenario, I decided to start using a Student Data Binder… Read More
Can you believe the end of the year is already upon us? I can barely believe it myself! I wanted to share a fun and engaging idea as an alternative to Summer Review packets. I promise your students (And you!) will love making these a summer review bucket! I started using this idea a few years ago when I was… Read More
There comes a time in every teacher’s career where they come to embrace things that make their lives easier… For me… it is task cards! Let me take a moment and discuss that a little further… Why love them so? They are so darn versatile! Need a “read the room” activity because the class is getting squirrelly? Get out those task… Read More