One of the biggest challenges for a new teacher (or a teacher moving grade levels) can be building up your classroom library. It’s so important to have a robust selection of books for your students but that doesn’t mean you need to break the bank to do it! Here are 10 ways to build your…
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Teacher Summer Book Club 2017
What’s better than relaxing with a great book in the summer? How about THREE great books?! Join us for our Summer Book Club! We’ll doing a little light reading, some thoughtful thinking, and a lot of fun discussion. After some suggestions, we’ve selected three great reads that we can’t wait to dive into. Will you join us?…
The End of Year Tradition It’s Time to Abandon
“Mom wants answers after child with ADHD receives ‘Least Likely to Pay Attention’ award.” That was in my news feed the other day. It’s easy to look at a story like that and think the teacher is incredibly cruel. And though it seems so obvious that this was a terrible, terrible idea, I know exactly how…
10 Teacher Truths I Learned from Anne of Green Gables
I first saw Anne of Green Gables when I was 8. You know the 80s mini-series from Canada with Megan Follows and (the all-time best TV crush) Jonathan Crombie??? I fell in love from the first scene with Anne reciting poetry to herself as she walks through the woods. Tell me you loved it, too!…
25 Must Follow Teachers on Pinterest
Last year, Erin Wing and I put together a list of our absolute favorite teacher pinners on Pinterest. We looked for pinners who shared a lot of high quality content, especially content with great images. We came up with a pretty impressive list of teacher pinners. I’m excited to finally share our list with you….