Teaching
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Is It Time to Rethink Our Use of Kahoot and Blooket in the Classroom?
🔥 Are Kahoot and Blooket really the best ways for students to review content? 🔥 How can we build fluency, literacy, and thinking skills in the science classroom? 🔥 What’s the role of pencils and paper in the classroom of 2025? Today’s Teacher on Fire is Marcie Samayoa. Marcie is a high school chemistry teacher Continue reading
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5 Powerful Daily Rituals for Every Teacher
🔥 How should teachers start every day? 🔥 What are the best ways to organize our workspaces? 🔥 When is the right time to leave the school building? Join me in conversation with Liz Prather as we dig into these critical questions. About This Guest Today’s Teacher on Fire is Liz Prather. A 30-year high Continue reading
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Mourning the End of Summer and Embracing the Mission Once Again
This will be my 25th year in education. Summer holidays are a sacred blessing for K-12 educators. For the ten-month school year, we give this work our all — often to the point of mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion. Then summer blissfully arrives, and with it, an extended emotional intermission. We have our critics, of Continue reading
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How to Manage Student Behavior Effectively: 7 Essential Skills
Seven moves you can make to save your sanity and empower your students. What’s one student behavior that you’ve found challenging recently? Whether you’re new to teaching or you’ve been around for a couple of decades, we’ve all got room to grow in terms of how we interact with students and manage our spaces effectively. Continue reading
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23 Reasons to Love Education from a 23-Year Teaching Veteran
From dodgeball to Rebecca Black, here’s what I love about the teacher life. I was recently inspired by West Vancouver superintendent Chris Kennedy, who published 28 Reasons To Love Teaching from a 28 Year Veteran at the close of the last school year. Chris put together an amazing list and I’ve remixed a few of his ideas Continue reading
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