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Showing posts with label teacher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teacher. Show all posts
9.8.23

Unlocking Success: A Guide to Building Strong Parent-Teacher Connections with Our First-Day Surveys

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Hi, teachers! Are you putting together the resources you need for your classroom? Don't forget to set yourself up for success by communi...
16.3.23

Yellow Day: A Series of Portraits in Yellow and Pink (Plucked from the Multiverse)

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Today is Yellow Day, a day to celebrate optimism, happiness, and warmth. In honor of the occasion, I used DALL-E-2 to create several version...
5.9.22

How Kahoot! Can Engage Students In The Classroom (Written by a Kahoot! Certified Educator with Examples)

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In this post, I write about how teachers, specifically high school English and Humanities teachers, can use the Kahoot! platform to enhance...
28.7.22

Teaching Peter and the Wolf: 2006 Oscar Winning Suzie Templeton Short Film

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In this post, I talk about teaching the short film "Peter and the Wolf" in my Eighth Grade English Language Arts class in Queens. ...
30.6.22

Clip Art: Cosmic School Teacher

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The cosmic school teacher inspires students by exploring boundless ideas, from black holes to the meaning of existence, opening minds to in...
10.7.21

Teacher's Summer Diary #2398: On the Tedium of Making Educational Digital Content (And Why a Walk, a Stretch, and a Sip of Water is Essential)

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In this post, I talk about making educational resources for the middle and high school classroom and why distraction is my friendly passenge...
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7.4.20

A Pro Tip for Teachers: Using Text Sets on Newsela

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Newsela is a website that curates news articles for teachers to share with their students. The idea is straightforward. Students engage wit...
4.3.20

On the Passing of a Friend and Mentor: Frank Levy, Storyteller

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Francis Xavier Levy, Jr. passed away on Tuesday morning - Frank was a friend and a mentor to me. I’ll miss him terribly. I met him and his...
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21.1.20

A Moment of Clarity Waiting for the Q66 Bus in Flushing

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I don’t like to wait. For buses. For people. Waiting feels like an abuse on my person. But worse than that, waiting exposes the truth o...
11.12.18

Found Object: Ancient Set of Crayons Found at Garden School

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I found this ancient set of crayons 🖍 in the faculty room at work. I work as an English and Ethics teacher at a Pre-K through Twelfth-gra...
30.3.18

On Knowing Nothing and Why I am Embarrassed that I am a Know-it-All

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My worst trait is that I am a know-it-all. I like to know things, and I feel amiss if I am not the one explaining. It’s an embarrassing trai...
8.7.17

That Time I Arrived in Beijing to Begin a Six City Tour of China

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Grill work from a door  in the Forbidden City in Beijing. In the Summer of 2017, we took a month-long tour of China. Here is the fi...
7.2.17

Notes on a Tuesday Evening After Instructing the Pupils

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A Word Wall At the end of the school day , most kids shuffle to their locker, collect wallets, purses, slung-over-the-shoulder book b...