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5 Ways to Simplify Your Life
Our lives are getting more and more complicated by the day. But it doesn't have to be that way. Try these strategies for simplifying your life. Use them not…
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Stop Pretending
This may be an unpopular opinion but I am going to state it anyway. It's more an exercise in thinking than it is an argument. I no longer want…
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If It Ain’t Broke
If it ain't broke... We all know the ending to this saying, and usually adhere to it. But what if it's wrong. If something is not broke, and we…
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Ten More Things I Wish Teachers Knew
Ten Things I Wish Teachers Knew Joyful engagement is the ultimate goal. Listen more than you talk. Quiet classrooms are not often a sign of robust learning. Talking (or…
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#HourOfPossibility
A few months ago, I was talking with several teachers in my building about providing opportunities for students to engage in their passions. We wanted to give students the…
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Join the Conversation
Connecting and sharing via social media has allowed me to progress as an educator. I have found the daily conversations and interactions to challenge my thinking, and to help…
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Prove Engagement
In education we need to worry less about proving that our students are learning and worry more about proving that students are DOING personally meaningful, ENGAGING Work. Doing…
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7 Classroom Ideas to Inspire Students
Is your classroom suffering from a lack of inspiration and creativity? Try these ideas to help inspire yourself and students. Rich (@RACzyz)
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Time to Fail
We are not giving ourselves enough time to fail. We take something that is successful and we try to reproduce it. When one thing works in one situation we…
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Not Just The Hours
There has long been debate over teacher pay. Some people, usually those outside of education, believe that teachers are paid too much. As the thinking goes, they get summers…