Shout out to the hardworking students at CHHS_HCS in English 10 for their work on the #AdobeSparkWritingChallenge! They each received the Bronze Certification for their entries. We currently have 167 student entries in the contest! Wakelet 💙 #wakeletwave Adobe Spark – now Adobe Creative Cloud Express HCS Innovate

I'm signed up for #DitchSummit, a free online conference for teachers. You can, too, at ... ditchsummit.com via Matt Miller 🗑️ I always end up with so many great resources to use in my classroom from this summit!

#TeachLivingPoets is helping me build community and relationships with my students while remote learning! Messages like this are giving me life- "Thank you! Being in your class helps me learn a lot about myself and how much I actually enjoy poetry!" 💜

I'm making it a point to leave feedback on students' personal writing using voice messages with Mote. I want them to know there is a real person reading and responding to their writing. Mote has been a huge help for me during this weird time! justmote.me/r/jk98v25

Shout out to Jamboard for coming through and letting my students share their wins and favorite lines from their name poems and stories 💙 My heart is full watching them celebrate themselves and their peers in this virtual world 🌍 #remotelearning #googlejamboard #writing

District-mandated PDs show me where I need to grow as a teacher. Not because of what’s being taught, but because of how ineffective many of them are. I find myself saying... “Is this how my scholars feel during this?” “This is so BORING!” “I don’t want to work in this group!”

In the midst of this crazy school year, I had to find something to ignite my own joy to balance the extra stress. I started a candle business and have sold out twice! If you're looking for small batch, unique, and eco-friendly candles, checkout Thoughtful Hive

The concept of "learning loss" is something that someone made up as a way to scare people into thinking our youth are going to be "behind" forever. But it's really a concept that will be used to sell products and services.

We already know how to spiral back, reteach, remediate, and scaffold instruction. Don't let some educational snake oil salesperson get you or your district for big money. Rely on your colleagues and collaborate. We know the best practices already.

Our students lost opportunities but they learned a whole lot of things that no generation has ever learned. Yes it has been traumatic and we will have to work through that in our school communities. But we're not about to sit up here and act like students haven't been learning.

That narrative ignores all of the work that educators have done to continue to deliver the highest quality learning experiences available. Don't let the talking heads throw you off. I've been in the schoolhouse the whole time. People are teaching and students are learning.

Rural community colleges are often economic development anchors. #comm_college #ruraldev

Love this. Thank you @jeckert79! #righttoreadtx "Students who read for pleasure, even if it’s fiction, have bigger vocabularies and can more easily empathize with other people."expressnews.com/opinion/commen…

This is the reading war we should be talking about.

Amazing writer and poet! Her work is always well-loved in the classroom!

Hear me out: dopamine hit from finding old chapsticks, dollar bills, and “lost” gloves in your winter coat.

And then you have to do your own research and learn that cats also have free-floating clavicles, which explains everything. The rabbit hole continues...

Find a teammate in life who doesn’t run when it gets hard. Life is HARD AF. Find someone who commits to showing up to do the hard work EVEN when they’re exhausted, knowing that YOU will do the same—EVEN if this means you both consciously decide you’re not the right team.

I had so much fun learning about #QRBreakIn with @MrsMarcumBGISD at #KYSTE2023 that I already created my own basketball theme for March Madness to use Monday with Ms. Gibson's biology class. So pumped because I, too, hate centers 😂 canva.com/design/DAFdek6…