There’s a story I heard about a man who was arriving for an interview. He was well dressed and came prepared with a briefcase full of references and work samples. As he arrived, there was a gentleman in the front office sweeping around the receptionist. With an audible sigh of annoyance, he stepped around the gentleman sweeping […]
Everyone sweeps on our team. #leadership #goals Read More »
Recently I was at a sporting event and noticed that our team was chanting during a tournament. My name is ____ and guess what I got? (what do you got) I got a team that’s hotter than hot. How hot is hot? Grand slams and home runs too, (so what’s your point) we’re going
I’ve long been a fan of Kasey Bell and her laid-back approach to #allthethings google. We’ve planned together, we’re brainstormed together, and flat out learned from each other. I call her my #digitalbestie because if there is a question I’ve had in regards to PD, Google training, or regional support from her “real job”, she is
Win an autographed copy of Shake Up Learning…and EVERYone wins! Read More »
My principal bestie, Melinda Miller and I have this Facebook group dedicated to Staff Appreciation and Celebration. It’s an entire page for administrators to share and creatively copy all sorts of great ideas, all meat to encourage, motivate and celebrate your teachers/staff. While it can be overwhelming, it does make me feel SO much better
Easter Appreciation, an easy way to celebrate your EGGcellent team! Read More »
My counselor emails our staff each morning. (I know…amazing, right??) I thought hers today was particularly incredible. This Spring Break, we went skiing in Taos. On our second day, Sam decided to learn to snowboard, but by the time we got his gear switched, the lessons were full. So, in an attempt to make his day more
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One of my favorite memories as a teacher is from back at the technology center. I received an email from my assistant principal titled “Dress code”. Gulp. It asked me to come see her at my conference time at the end of the day. Double gulp. Still having no clue as to why I was
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This weekend I’m at an SDE conference with my kinder team. Kindergarten is its own beast, ya’ll. I taught fourth grade. Big tall fourth graders who relatively could control their emotions, tie their shoes, and regular complete multistep tasks. There were two opportunities I had to cover some kinder classes this year and my’lanta. I’ve never been more
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How do you as an administrator (or teacher!) feel about conferences? Professional learning? Empowering your teachers?Here are the things we did to maximize sending our team of teachers to #TCEA! Make the most out of your next conference! Often our budgets and #allthethings (subs! testing! schedules! teaching!), make it impossible to send every teacher we have
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I can still remember the year that Mitt Price, my principal, offered to send me to TCEA as a 4th-grade teacher, as a “reward” for all that I was doing on and for our campus, a Technology Magnet Center. As a Technology Facilitator, I loved attending and presenting with some pretty awesome friends on a
#TCEA 2018, you’re all grown up! Links to presentations & epiphanies shared! Read More »
Recently my oldest, my beast, turned 16. 16, ya’ll. That’s OLD! That’s driving age, thinking about college age, preparing to be all grown up age. When I think back to who I was, or thought I was going to be at 16, I don’t know that I had any concept of the life I had
Letters to the Beast…or what I wish I knew at 16… Read More »