I decided that before I can start posting about what I'm doing this year, I needed to share some of my favorite strategies from last year that went really well with the students. I was completely inspired by Kelly Gallagher after reading devouring all of his books at the beginning of the school year! I had the opportunity to go to a Kelly Gallagher workshop at Judson this spring, and it was absolutely amazing! He was so nice when I went up to him (I was terrified and starstruck), and even wrote "You're Welcome" on this piece of paper, because my students actually asked me to THANK HIM for changing the way we read novels in class. Students + asked me + to say thank you to an author + about school stuff = UTOPIA! Here are some of my abbreviated notes from the day: His TOP Points: Kids should write 4X more than you can physically grade Students suffer from word poverty. Must get students reading more in order to be exposed to vocabulary. We ne
Popping in from Farley's linky. Sadly, I totally feel you on the needing to clean up my office (talk about a downhill spiral…!). Also, pretty much want to eat a whole lot of chocolate now that I've read that, too! Lol!
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Stef
Miss Galvin Learns
Hi! Sorry about sharing my chocolate cravings :) I'm heading to go clean up the office right now! Thanks for visiting :)
DeleteLOVE Walking Dead!!! And I am so jealous of the fact that you have an office!! I can only afford a one-bedroom apt but I would love to have an office to store all my school STUFF! 90 days til June..woot woot!
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Tales of Teaching in Heels
Stephanie- I had to double check my math, because that is not a long time away!! Walking Dead was GREAT last Sunday, can't believe I was just getting to it today!! I'll be posting before and after pics today of the office. I don't deserve it, I have neglected it!!
DeleteI love the walking dead! I need to catch up on the last episode so that I can watch today's episode. I was wondering if you could please check out my new teacher exchange website LIFTPackages.blogspot.com. It is a teacher exchange program in which you meet teachers and send care packages to each other. Please feel free to check out the website, sign up and pass our name along to friends!
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-Kim