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Day 14 – #AprilBlogADay – Why I Teach
Why I Teach Occasionally during excruciatingly busy times in my years of teaching, I’ve dreamt of quitting and becoming a receptionist in a sleepy office where I didn’t care about the service or...
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Day 15 – #AprilBlogADay – Social Media
How has social media changed your classroom? Personally? Professionally? Social media has changed my classroom and me–both personally and professionally. Here’s the back story. It started with this...
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Day 16 – #AprilBlogADay PLN and PLC
Why are PLCs and PLNs important? Different? Contribute to school success? My day starts early and is ending as some of you in North America are just getting started. I usually wait until evening to...
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Day 18 – #AprilBlogADay – Elevating
What small steps are you willing to take to elevate the profession? I guess the major small step I can–and do–take is to be a role model to those around me. I try to model what I believe a passionate,...
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Day 20 #AprilBlogADay – Now
What are you working on NOW? What are you trying to get better at? True confessions! This is a bad time to ask this question because I’m mostly working on the basics, like trying to help students...
View ArticleThe Skill of Listening, Happy Earth Day, and Day 22 #AprilBlogADay
Listening, speaking, reading and writing = language and literacy. I have been teaching English language learners for a little over a year now. It was a big change from teaching older native speakers...
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Day 23 – #AprilBlogADay – Transparency
How transparent should our profession be? This question is good. I’ll just take a stab at it, but…Disclaimer: I really don’t know. Anyone of you reading this blog, knows lots of teachers who are...
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Day 24 – #AprilBlogADay #ILoveMySchoolBecause
I have a once-in-a-lifetime experience of teaching school around the world from where I came from and where I’ve always taught. This past week I was a co-leader of a committee for Earth Day...
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#AprilBlogADay to Continue
This month I’ve enjoyed writing one blog post a day. I didn’t really think I’d be able to keep it up, but I have so far! Only five days to go. We had a Twitter chat today and decided to keep this...
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Day 26 – #AprilBlogADay – Fighting Spring Fever
Engagement/lessons/tips/tricks/ideas for spring fever – age specific. Funny, just last week, I found three ways to keep K-2 students engaged at the end of the year. Those are three things that I’m...
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