Spring Cleaning for Teachers Series – Part 2 My favorite work avoidance tactic is cleaning, organizing, and decluttering the spaces in which I live and work. I imagine there are a lot of us out there with massively unorganized Google Drives, especially with the state of hybrid and remote teaching this year. In this part of the Spring Cleaning for Teachers series, I want to share with you my best tips for creating and maintaining a well organized digital filing system. Today, I will walk you my tips to organize digital files so you can set yourself up for success for next school year! Are you ready for a little…
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My 5 Favorite Classroom Tech Tools
I had to change my teaching to make it engaging for both remote and in- person students. These are the 5 classroom tech tools that I use daily.
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ELA Strategies I Love: Hexagonal Thinking
Have you ever heard of or seen a new teaching strategy from a coworker and said, “I have to try that TOMORROW!”? That was me last week when I heard about Hexagonal Thinking from the Brave New Teaching Podcast. It just SOUNDS cool. I immediately paused my podcast, put down my vacuum ( because who doesn’t listen to podcasts while they’re cleaning? It’s a thing, I swear), and ran to my computer. I googled “Hexagonal Thinking” and found Betsy Potash’s incredibly innovative strategy for critical thinking on her Spark Creativity blog. I was immediately obsessed and worked it into my Hamlet lesson for the next week. Here’s how the Hexagonal…
