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With graduation season approaching, high school students are starting to think about the next stage in their education. While it's exciting to go off to college and start a new chapter...
Introduction
This is a great time of year to reflect on the past year, but it can also be a stressful time for teachers. I know this from personal experience. In fact, I often find myself dreading ...
Introduction
Have you ever felt like all you want to do is put your head on your desk and close your eyes? Or maybe you feel like you're drowning in paperwork, and there's no way out. Or maybe you ...
Introduction
"Teacher burnout" is a phenomenon that has been gaining attention in education circles, with articles and blogs popping up everywhere. But what exactly is teacher burnout?Ā
And if you...
Social Emotional Learning can be pushed to the side when it comes to high school students. However, as you will learn below, high school students need this SEL support more than ever. In the below a...
Building Rapport with Students: High School
When teaching high school, you know that building rapport with students is essential. They need to know not only that you are there for academic needs, b...
Stress Management Tips to Use Today
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Let's get right to it: We're stressed.Ā
We all feel it, it ebbs and flows, and sometimes it even lingers as chronic stress. I will go into a whole other arti...
Using Student Feedback Forms to Encourage Written Self Evaluation
Tired of spending tons of time grading and giving feedback only for students to push your carefully crafted words into their backpa...
How to Write the Common App Essay
You know that students need more help with their college application essays, or they need some sort of structure to start. Maybe its the end of the year and you wa...
Mini Lessons are a great way to provide chunkable content and incorporate seemingly smaller skills that can be practiced over time. Personally, I love using mini lessons in conjunction with stations...
Weā€™ve become a meme: a picture of a teacher bringing all their grading home in a pick up truck or carrying a stack of papers taller than the teacher isā€¦ Well, Iā€™m out: I refuse to normalize sacrific...
Writing Teachersā€™ Struggles
We all see it: the blank stares at digital documents that indicate students have no clue where to go next. Sure, you have described that students need to write more conc...
