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Parking Lots & Life Goals
I was sitting in the chair at the barber shop. The gentleman in the chair next to me uttered the statement. "My goal in life is to own a parking…
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4 Simple Questions to Guide Your Lesson Planning
Lesson plans should provide a solid guideline for what you want to accomplish with students during a lesson. While plans can sometimes be complicated, they don't have to be.…
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A Classroom Design Checklist
Thinking critically about classroom design? Use this checklist from the upcoming #4OCF book The Secret Sauce: Essential Ingredients for Exceptional Teaching to help plan your classroom design. Most of…
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#BackToSchool 2019
Some of you have already been back for a few weeks. Some of you are enjoying the last few days of summer, and preparing for the upcoming year. At…
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Contagious
As a new teacher, you should do everything you can to avoid it. It can be contagious.Try not to catch it.It can linger. You will feel more awful each…
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Student Voice in Classroom Design
Check out some thoughts about classroom design: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT3RxXQPIy4 How are you giving students VOICE in classroom design? How are you designing your classroom to correlate to your goals or…
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Pass the Mic
There has recently been much discussion on Twitter about edurockstars. I’ve always struggled with this term. After all, as educators, we go to work to do a job each…
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The Secret Sauce
I am proud to announce that in just a few short weeks, my second book The Secret Sauce will be released. And I'm proud to share the book cover…
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Supply Lists
My children will return to school in late August. This year I wanted to avoid being the last minute shopper trying to find school supplies amongst a limited number…