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Flipping for the Flipped Classroom Seems To Be the Trend but Not for Me
from icanread Hey Pernille, we watched a video on the Khan and the flipped classroom model today. I think you would love it! Oh, yes I am already familiar with it, why do you think I would love it?...
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Will School Rob My Daughter of Her Voice?
There she is, my daughter, not caring one bit who hears her or whether they approve of her actions. She saw a piano, saw an opportunity and knew she had to sing. I sit there, slightly mortified at...
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Flying Above the Radar
With the arrival of our twins, I asked for guest bloggers and was super excited to share this post with all of you by Kaitlyn Gentry… Too often in education, and in life, people aim to fly under the...
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About Those Little Things
image from icanread I say it is about those little things, those things that make the biggest impressions, and yet even I forget just how little those little things can be. Is there a smile on my...
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Back to School – January Edition
image from icanread January comes at us like a lion it seems bringing students who were just getting used to being on break, miserably cold winter days where no sledding is allowed at school, and more...
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Don’t Act Like An Idiot – My 5th Graders Make Our Rules
image from icanread Silence…not something that happens in a room full of 27 students. Then one hand cautiously rises, then another, but still mostly silence… A minute ago I had asked my students, “What...
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Modified Readers/Writers Workshop in the 7th Grade Classroom
image from icanread All summer my mind has been in high gear trying to wrap itself around what my classroom experience will be like next year. I know I will be teaching an incredible age group of...
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Why Not Treat Them Like They Want to Be In Our Classrooms?
image from icanread I bartended for many years before and after I became a teacher. Something about the hours and the people appealed to me and it is even how I met my husband; he was a bouncer and I...
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9 Barriers to Personalized Learning And How We May Work Around Them
image from icanread I didn’t know I was doing personalized learning when I first changed the way I taught. It wasn’t until I wrote about it in a blog post and someone gave me the name and description...
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No School For You, Bully! But Did We Fix Anything?
The news broke last night that the 4 middle schoolers who were caught on tape tormenting their bus monitor received a year’s suspension from riding the bus as well as school. A whole school year! (I...
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