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  • Feel like you’re in The Twilight Zone? Lessons for Middle School and High School
  • Standards
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  • Who am I?
  • I know you don’t have any subs in your building, but these lessons would be perfect if you did.
  • Professional Development that Matters. There should be more to PD day than an apple danish.
  • We will design a lesson based on your needs….it’s what we do.
  • What about copyright considerations for using film and television?
  • Rigor
  • Connections through media: what does that mean?
  • Teaching Comedy
  • Yes, I still teach. Read the feedback I have gotten so far.
  • Interdisciplinary Connections: You’re In Charge of Everyone Now.
  • Values
  • My Story. Why does a good teacher leave the classroom?
  • Books to Recommend
  • Please do not come here looking for perfection. You won’t find it.
  • Wait? Teacher and comedian?
  • Poetry and Writing
  • Class is in session
  • Monsters in Film and Literature
  • Geography
  • Class and Lesson Design For Outschool and Other Online Platforms
  • Science: Astronomy (K-W-L)
  • Life After The Classroom
  • Math
  • Resume Help for Those Getting Out of Teaching
  • Hacks for Getting Through the School Year
  • Lessons for Homeschooling
  • Her Feet Hurt: Blurbs from My Fiction Writing
  • Math
  • Reading and writing support for young people who don’t like reading and writing. (Fully certified)
  • Toxic Work Environments
  • Comedy for Teachers: Humor, Stress, and Surviving Sunday Nights
  • Changing the Mindset: We’re hiring.
  • Did you leave mid-year? There are opportunities just for you.
  • Let us Write Your Story
  • Lessons for High School Reading
  • Reflections
  • Home
  • Our mission statement. Please read this before ordering any lessons. (I’m finally getting enough sleep, so your patience is appreciated.)
  • We make it easy for you to contact us
  • Standards
  • Feel like you’re in The Twilight Zone? Lessons for Middle School and High School
  • The Research Behind What We Do
  • Who am I?
  • I know you don’t have any subs in your building, but these lessons would be perfect if you did.
  • Professional Development that Matters. There should be more to PD day than an apple danish.
  • We will design a lesson based on your needs….it’s what we do.
  • What about copyright considerations for using film and television?
  • Rigor
  • Connections through media: what does that mean?
  • Teaching Comedy
  • Yes, I still teach. Read the feedback I have gotten so far.
  • Interdisciplinary Connections: You’re In Charge of Everyone Now.
  • Values
  • My Story. Why does a good teacher leave the classroom?
  • Books to Recommend
  • Please do not come here looking for perfection. You won’t find it.
  • Poetry and Writing
  • Wait? Teacher and comedian?
  • Class is in session
  • Monsters in Film and Literature
  • Geography
  • Class and Lesson Design For Outschool and Other Online Platforms
  • Science: Astronomy (K-W-L)
  • Life After The Classroom
  • Math
  • Resume Help for Those Getting Out of Teaching
  • Hacks for Getting Through the School Year
  • Lessons for Homeschooling
  • Her Feet Hurt: Blurbs from My Fiction Writing
  • Math
  • Reading and writing support for young people who don’t like reading and writing. (Fully certified)
  • Toxic Work Environments
  • Comedy for Teachers: Humor, Stress, and Surviving Sunday Nights
  • Changing the Mindset: We’re hiring.
  • Did you leave mid-year? There are opportunities just for you.
  • Let us Write Your Story
  • Lessons for High School Reading
  • Reflections

Refusing to give zeros did not make me popular….and I don’t care.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/why-i-stopped-giving-zeros

“When students get a zero, it’s not a similar 10-percent reduction but a 60-percent reduction. Students who receive a zero are often mathematically unable to recover their grade.”

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 26, 2022 1 Minute

Lunchables, etc.

You can’t talk about education without talking about school lunch.

I have been been so fortunate to both attend and work in schools with really delicious and well-made food, which is probably why I have never tired a Lunchable.

Then a friend invited me to try one of these…and I fell in love.

Now, to try a Lunchable.

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 22, 2022October 22, 2022 1 Minute

Camp

Seeing that the release of the 2018 version of Halloween took place on this date, while Halloween Ends is still in theaters, is a fond reminder that campy horror movies will, (thankfully), never go away, particularly in sequel form.

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 19, 2022 1 Minute

“The Greatest Monologue in Film History”?

Whatever you might think of Wikipedia, it’s hard to disagree with that conclusion.

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 15, 2022 1 Minute

Angela Lansbury and The Manchurian Candidate

Not exactly Mrs. Potts.

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 12, 2022 1 Minute

Thoughts on Instructional Coaching.

The comments say it all.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/coaching-veteran-teacher?fbclid=IwAR2CNQg8Xcrk70nZ5Bi1DClQHmT7oqCWbbemmkE_5AL6hR6IHr-bwEWzolM

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 9, 2022 1 Minute

Happy Birthday, R.L. Stine

“at Johnsonville Elementary School in Blaine, Minnesota (one school where the books were challenged), the principal defended the series by stating that while his eleven-year-old son reads them furiously, his ten-year-old daughter chooses not to touch them. She knows that for her, they would not be a positive experience. Kids can choose.”

Goosebumps and Censorship
Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 8, 2022October 8, 2022 1 Minute

The study of….humor?

Gelotology is the study of humor and laughter. Clearly, other people are appreciating the effects of levity, which is why this title remains a best-seller.

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 5, 2022 1 Minute

Honoring E.B. White, who died on this date in 1985.

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 1 Minute

Happy Birthday, Peter Finch

Still such an iconic scene.

Invited Learning Uncategorized Leave a comment September 28, 2022 1 Minute

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