Ashley Stanley

5th grade teacher 🎒| Musician 🎶
@UMichEducation, @UMichsmtd, @GVSU & @WoodhavenHigh | She/They 🏳️‍🌈

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

If your desk isn’t trashed, are you really using evidence?

[Michigan Department of Natural Resources @MichiganDNR]

It's Friday the 13th.

Here, have a sea lamprey mouth.

[Nell K. Duke @nellkduke]

📊Research has found that classrooms differ a great deal in quality of discussions--and those differences impact comprehension development. Please see below for examples of differences. For a self-assessment and guide to quality talk about text, see https://t.co/hWnyoFVV17

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

Things I have never ever regretting doing at the start of the year:
-Sentence Writing
-Paragraph Writing
-Listening to every kid read a grade level passage individually
-Reviewing multiplication facts

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

Five classrooms in six years has taught me a lot about:
✅ making spaces feel bigger
✅decluttering
✅student traffic patterns
✅ getting on without a teacher desk
✅ leaving space for the kids

Still a little wok left to do, but I think this one is going to be the best yet.

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

@MrC_A2 Happy for you!

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

@EverSong01 Thank you!

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

First day of summer break! ☀️ I will be teaching 5th grade (again!) in a new district this fall. I’m really looking forward to a fresh start and am so excited about my new colleagues and admin! They have already done so much to make my transition smooth. 🤍💙

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

One of the most legit educators I’ve ever heard speak. So excited to have this literary resource in the world and in my hands this Oct!

[Michigan Department of Natural Resources @MichiganDNR]

The answer was yes, so here we go.

This is rock snot, aka didymo, a microscopic, single-cell algae that can grow in thick mats in clean, high-quality stream and riverbeds.

This can be a problem for native species, including trout, which need these areas to live and reproduce.

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

Mandatory reading!

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

@sam_aye_ahm Explaining who Al Gore is to my students 😂

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

I love this thread so much!

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Give some life advice as if you were a mathematical term/concept. I'll go first.

Identity property: Be yourself.

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

The @MichiganDNR fire safety emails are so sad. So many beautiful places are vulnerable right now.

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

@historysandoval 😍

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

😭 ❤️ 🌟
All of the feelings.

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

I had Ss fill out an anonymous "course evaluation" as a bell ringer on the last day. They gave some great advice!
-More time on big projects
-Use fewer elementary tactics to control the class
-"Grade my late work" clipboard was a success
& my fave-- Keep being so dedicated 💙

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

So, I wasn’t really sure what to expect when the bell rang at 3:05 on the last day of 8th grade. I thought maybe a fire alarm, maybe the kids would be jumping for joy. No. They stormed out of the room cheering and suddenly burst into tears and broke my fricken heart.

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

@MarcusLuther6 But I still want independent choice reading to be a thing! It always gets short changed.

[Ashley Stanley @Ashodactyl]

@MarcusLuther6 I try to connect the clubs to a short whole class novel and we do a lot of related reading and writing assignments (I.e articles and short stories) as a whole class concurrently, so I can be explicit and we can practice the skills/standards necessary. Still working on this.