How Do I Work Smarter and Not Harder when it comes to something that involves a lot of planning and organization, like middle school math workshop, is what you may be asking me right about now. Well my friend, I’m here to tell you that it can be done. You
If you have been around my blog for awhile, or followed me on social media, you know that finding ways to interact and engage with my students that meet their learning styles was always the priority. While that began with all of my work with Interactive Notebooks (which is still
We all have clutter in our lives and having that clutter at school where we spend so much of our time can make life miserable. For the first two months of 2015 I focused on covering SIX different clutter busters for teachers. These posts were things that resounded with me
We all know that having the right teacher bag makes all of the difference. I can’t count how many bags I have gone through over the years because there have just been that many. Some of them I got for free from various conventions or workshops and then others I
Papers, papers EVERYWHERE! Papers, papers… do I care? Yes, there are times I want to shout this cheer from the mountaintops when the papers on my desk start to take over. I’ve gathered a few tried and true tips for you to not only successfully rid yourself of the unnecessary
So you downloaded some files last week and you know you saved them on your computer (flash drive, Dropbox, etc.) but now you totally can’t find them? This is the case off a many people and just like you I am MEGA guilty! Does your computer desktop look like a
Remember that day when you woke up at 3 am sick as a dog (or maybe it was your child) and you knew that today just wasn’t your day already? Not only were you sick but you had left your classroom in complete dissaray the day before and were planning on
Welcome to the first of a series of posts this month about Clearing Teacher Clutter. I was inspired to write this post after I was reading the most recent Real Simple magazine and it was talking about how so many of us vow to organize and clear out the clutter
Recently when I was giving a workshop in San Antonio I mentioned about printing on Post Its and how they can be so useful inside and outside of the classroom. I shocked a few teachers so I thought I might as well go ahead and share this favorite with all of
Week three of Monday Made Its and I am still going strong! This week is full of organization and preparing for some upcoming (and most recent) conferences. Thank you so much Tara for allowing us to share all of our great creations with the education community once again! First thing
A question that I get asked regularly via email or workshops and session is, “What do you do about students who are absent? How do they follow along with their Interactive Notebooks?” In my classroom I had a file crate with hanging file folders labeled 1-31. In each of these
If you are anything like me in your classroom you survive by checklists! Yes, everything must have a checklists so I can make sure that I don’t leave off one little details. And the things I forget and I still get done… they of course get added to the checklist
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