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As you may or may not know, every month we sell #KidsDeserveIt t-shirts.  We donate 100% of the proceeds to Donors Choose projects.  Thanks to the generous purchases of so many we have donated over $30,000 to teachers in need. As you’ve seen on the news over the last week, Hurricane Harvey crashed into my…

Every so often I like to use my “platform” to introduce you to others I’m learning from on Social Media.  People who inspire me, challenge my thinking, share great ideas, or just flat out are incredible individuals. So to start out a new school year, I picked 12 people I haven’t featured before, that I…

This post is co-written with the incredible Joshua Stamper. You can follow him on Twitter HERE or check out his blog HERE.     “A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.” – Shawn Hitchcock Throughout our lives, we have been guided, counseled, and advised through hardships,…

Summer is always a time for learning, connecting, and growing!  Below are 10 people I’ve connected with recently who I feel like are GREAT educators to learn from, and might just be a few you haven’t connected with yet! We’re all better when we’re connecting and growing together! Show them some love! Mitchel Meighen Pennsylvania…

  “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” I have never understood the value in that simple statement.  I have heard it my entire life though, as I’m sure many of you have.  But if there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that words do hurt. Writing has always…

This post was co-written with Roman Nowak. On social media, so often we see posts of countdowns to the weekend, Christmas, Spring Break, summer; it is usually accompanied by elation and celebration. As students and educators, we often can’t wait until there is a break from school. Why is that? We know it’s because we work…

Over the past year or so I’ve really been thinking about the messages we send.  Those things we do that speak louder than the words that are coming out of our mouths. Back in January of 2016, I wrote a post called “My Journey: Race, Economics, and White-Privilege“.  That post was my first time to…

“When we spill our emotions onto blank pages, we can see, through words, the problems that plague us. It is a unique way of healing”  Travis Crowder     Writing, and blogging specifically, have been such a great release for me. I still remember when I started my blog a few years ago. I was…

The closer we get to Spring it seems like the shorter our fuses get and the more rambunctious and misbehaving our kids become. As a classroom teacher I loved having “those kids”.  The ones that the teacher from the year before would warn you about.  The ones who pushed every single button you have, and…

This post was co-written with Travis Crowder. You can follow him on Twitter HERE or his own blog HERE. We’ve all been there at one point or another….that moment where a child needs a consequence and as educators we jump straight to “write this sentence 100 times” or “sit there and read your book in…

Every so often I love to write a post sharing with you some people on social media who have been inspiring me.  I am connected with, and inspired by, so many!  So this is in NO WAY the complete list!  But these are a few that I’ve come to find in the last month or…