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permaculturenews.org Teaching has always been something I’ve wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I always knew I was going to be a teacher when I grew up. I started teaching about 7 years ago. I came in wide-eyed, full of ideas, and overflowing with positivity that I was going to change every…
This week was quite the whirlwind. I could not for the life of me keep track of what day was what! Whew! So we started off the week with the students creating their own multiplication videos. I split the kids into groups of three, and each person was given a multiplication problem to solve. One…
Like most people growing up was full of ups and downs. I grew up in a house full of turmoil. My parents fought every day, my dad drank daily, if not hourly, and wasn’t home too much, and I never felt like I fit in too much anywhere. I don’t remember a lot about…
Wow! This week was JAM PACKED with awesomeness! Even writing this post it feels like some of these things happened weeks ago! Ok so first off let me make clear that I have 3 classes (a total of 75 students). So when I get to do creative and collaborative things with others via Skype or…
As I’ve said in previous blog posts music inspires. Music is a huge part of my life….so much so that for a while I wanted to be a radio DJ. As I’ve been reading lots of blog posts and tweets lately, I’ve seen how much music means to so many of us. So what I…
Week two was a great trip! After a week one full of some ups and some downs, it was nice to feel like I was getting more in the swing of things with Week 2. We officially started flipping this week! Kids had two videos they had to watch this week. The first video I…
Been wanting to blog about this for a little over a week now, and the inspiration just hit me today so here goes. image courtesy of mathieujang.com One of my best friends, and someone I consider my brother, Brad Waid (@TechBradWaid) recently wrote a blog post called “Tired or Inspired” where he went through and…
Week one of another school year is down in the books! Whew, to say I’m exhausted is an UNDERSTATEMENT! I’ll try to get all my thoughts down…. We started school on Monday like most of Texas. Went off with a bang. Worked with getting school supplies sorted, learning the school, setting expectations, and building relationships….
So many of my Tweeps have been sharing some of their favorite tech tools that they use in their classroom so I figure I might as well too! In no particular order here are my favorite tools to use with my students and a few I plan to use this year that I’m really excited…
This post is probably going to be the most personal post I’ve written. But for me sharing through writing is cathartic so I need to write this out. This past week a tragedy happened within my school family and within my personal family’s life. To keep the backstory short, here’s a little of what happened……
If there’s one thing I’ve learned being a teacher and working with kids, it’s that building relationships should be your number one priority. And I think this mainfest by Angela Maiers speaks VOLUMES and is our class motto The education is important, the skills are important, the lessons are important, but I believe that getting…
image from washingtonmonthly.com When I was in college I remember hearing one sentence during a sermon, that totally changed the way I viewed people. That sentence was, “hurting people, hurt others”. Those four little worlds completely blew my mind. From that moment on I chose to make a conscious decision to keep those four words…
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