Why is this wet?
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Why is this wet?

  I was meeting with a new kindergarten teacher, and a former kindergarten teacher on a recent afternoon. The conversation turned to the cleanliness habits of four and five year…
The Largest Class I Ever Taught
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The Largest Class I Ever Taught

  My first year of teaching I had 28 students. There were barely enough desks in the classroom. It was the largest class I ever taught. The fun part though…
Black Belt in Procrastination
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Black Belt in Procrastination

  How are your procrastination skills? I feel like mine are strong. I can’t be quite sure though how they compare to others. It’s simply that others may have better…
Still Undefeated
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Still Undefeated

  It’s much easier to resist change. To work around it. To wait it out. To simply ignore and hope it goes away.   Being a part of the change...…
Stop Editing
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Stop Editing

  As children we were willing to sing, dance, and sneak into bed with a colander in our pants, but now, as adults, day by day, little by little, we…
Blind
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Blind

  I’ve heard the response many times when talking with parents. There is just one problem with an eye for an eye as a parental strategy though. If we were…
A Magical Transformation
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A Magical Transformation

  Kindergarten at the beginning of the year can be sort of chaotic. There are tears, both on the student side and the parent side. There are students who’ve never…
The Code
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The Code

“The code is more what you call guidelines than actual rules.” -Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean)   Guidelines are great. Sometimes, you have to operate at someone else’s pace or…
Introducing a Classroom Economy
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Introducing a Classroom Economy

  I was recently talking to a third grade teacher who introduced a classroom economy to start the new year. She talked about the excitement of students as they invested…