I have slacked on teaching poetry this year. Big time. As in, we’ve barely even glanced at poetry. I knew that had to change during these last few weeks of school,…
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I am constantly telling my students not to procrastinate. Plan ahead, I tell them. Do your work early, I preach. But truth is, when I procrastinate, I tend to do my…
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Have you ever noticed that our educational system expects ambition from our students but not from our teachers? We want students to have drive, to strive for more, to dream big,…
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Spring break is over. Today is the last day and I’m just not ready to go back. I could use at least another week (who’s with me?!). Despite my sadness at…
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Early this school year I came across a post about using hyperdocs on Cult of Pedagogy. After reading Jenn’s post, I immediately started doing more research. In addition to this post about playlists (similar idea),…
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Teacher Appreciation Week should be at the beginning of February. Hear me out on this: Yes, we’ve just had a break for a couple weeks, and if your school is like…
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Students Use Design Thinking to Propose Solutions to an Authentic Audience
Instruction January 17, 2018Four years ago, I started teaching Public Speaking at our high school. It was a brand new course, which meant I had the freedom to design it as I thought best.…
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