Episode 3: Winding Down Your School Year
It’s nearly summer. Your personal calendar has a countdown to your last duty day. On your whiteboard is a countdown…
Teacher Well-Being
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Balancing Summer Work and Rest
The fact of the matter is we don’t get enough rest during the school year. We drag ourselves to summer utterly exhausted and spent, with nothing left to give, and if we don’t take time to rest, recharge, and become ourselves again, we’ll start the new school year at less than full capacity.
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Digital Resources to Make Your Life Easier
Check out our favorite digital resources for use in a high school or middle school English class. Whether you’re trying to plan for online teaching or in-person learning, we’ve found these valuable!
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Episode 2: First Year Mistakes
First year of teaching and mistakes go together like peanut butter and jelly. They can be separated, but more often,…
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A Successful First Planning Session in Your PLC
We, like many English teachers, started our careers believing we had to cover everything there was to say about a text and include every fun idea we could think of to engage students. This approach quickly becomes overwhelming, both for us and for our students.
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The Power of Mistakes
If we can learn to be reflective we take back our power and become better.
