The Christmas story comes alive in an engaging flip book, that has two designs, a full color option, or a black and white design that enables any child (or adult) to color in each illustration.
Read MoreThrough my research on and 15 years of practice with collaboration in the classroom, I’ve been working towards taking this HUGE concept of collaborative learning and simplifying it for easy application in EVERY classroom. Here’s what I’ve discovered
Read MoreIf you are starting the year with new colleagues, or even if you have been teaching with the same teachers for years, but you want to hit the “reset button” to re-evaluate and discuss how you work together, use these 6 talking points to help you set the expectations for how to collaborate well with your (new) team.
Read MoreNow, more than ever, we have been increasingly concerned about our health. Amidst the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, people became frantic in an effort to preserve their own health and the health of those they love. Something we need to think about as we approach the beginning of this very strange and different school year is: If we, as adults are having a hard time processing the complexities of this virus and what’s going on in the world because of it, how much more are our students going to be struggling with those same things?
Read MoreWhile you and your students may not be physically together, making relational connections is more important now than ever. So the question is, how do we create and maintain those relationships with our students?
Read MoreWho could have ever predicted that we would be starting the 2020-21 school year with a majority of schools operating completely virtually? Who could have anticipated the various new regulations and mandates that educators are required to follow in order to provide a safe environment for our students? Never before have we felt such a seismic shift in education in such a short time. The entire landscape has changed, and we have to rethink everything we do in and out of the classroom. It is overwhelming to say the least.
Read MoreSeriously, everywhere I look I see BOOM Cards here, BOOM Cards there. They’re all over Teachers Pay Teachers and my Pinterest feed is FLOODED with pins featuring these digital task cards. So, what’s all the fuss about these cards?
Read MoreTeacher Friend, do you have educational resources you've created for the students in your classroom? Like many other teachers, are you intimidated by the process of getting your content onto Teachers Pay Teachers? Or is a fantastic store logo standing in the way of your success?
Read MoreGo from Teacher to Teacherpreneur by learning the secrets of how to make your TpT brand stand out from the crowd while following my easy peasy instructional guide on how to reserve the BEST TpT store name. It’s SIMPLER than you think!!!
Read MoreIf you don’t already know by now, I am quite a fan of collaborative learning. Maybe fan isn’t quite the right term, obsessed may be more accurate? Either way, I am passionate about implementing collaborative learning into the fiber of my classroom and advocating for and equipping other teachers to use it in their classrooms as well. One of the things I love most about collaboration is that it brings the amount of talking students get to do in the classroom to an all time HIGH. Does that proposition chill you to your very core? Why would I want my students talking all the time when I spend so much time trying to get them QUIET?! And that is PRECISELY why this method is so successful, because we all know we are fighting a losing battle trying to keep students quiet all day, but also, research shows that students learn much more when they get to talk about their learning and process it with other people out LOUD.
Read MoreWe all know it is natural for the majority of students to interrupt while they’re having conversations. They want to be heard, and they want to ensure their friends and peers affirm their own point of view. SO THEY SAY THEIR OPINION AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE OVER ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS AT THEIR TABLE. The struggle is real, am I right teacher friend? So I created a Talking Stick to help scaffold my students’ development in learning how to LISTEN and allow one person to talk in a team at a time.
Read MoreCollaboration. That infamous buzz word we hear echoing through the hallways, in the teacher seminars, professional development, blogosphere, Pinterest, it’s everywhere. And the one primary response most teachers give when presented with implementing collaboration in their classrooms, “That all sounds great, but it sounds like too much work.”
Read MoreHave you ever struggled to get your students to take ownership of their learning progress? Have you ever assumed that students were going over their graded work with their parents each week and carefully reviewing things they did well on and things they still needed to work on? Well, I have experienced both of these issues and I found that in reality, only 2 or 3 households in my entire classroom were actually using their graded work sent home as a launch pad for helpful discussion and progress monitoring. I knew something had to change. I couldn’t just expect the intentionality to happen automatically between students and their families, I had to create a precedent, a routine in my own classroom with my students that they would be more likely to recreate at home.
Read MoreWe all have goals, whether it’s to lose 10 pounds, read more novels, or organize that overly filled teacher supply cabinet. Once we create goals in our own minds, we are way more likely to actually see them through when we tell someone about them. So, imagine you choose a goal and share that goal with a life coach. And, let’s say the life coach holds us accountable to our goal by checking in regularly, asking us about our intentional steps we are taking to make progress toward that goal, giving insightful feedback about our plans to meet our goal, helping us set realistic deadlines by which we want to have the goal met, and giving encouraging words that motivate us to reach it. Do those things impact the likelihood of meeting the goal you set? The answer is of course, YES.
Read MoreWelcome to the blog! I am thrilled you are here and checking it out! I wanted my very first article to cast the vision that I have for this blog… kind of like a mission statement. I truly have a heart for teachers and desire to be a resource to other educators (hence the name: The Resourceful Teacher). I want to pay it forward from all the wonderful teachers who’ve mentored me and still pour into me today.
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