Laura Dupré

Middle School Special Education teacher with a background in Montessori, Parent, Seeker of Knowledge. My tweets are my own. She/her. “Tweets like a mom.”

[Laura Dupré @HeyDupre]

My oldest told me they have “Terrible PowerPoint Presentation Night” with friends at college.
An example they gave was “Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Infinity but Should Be Afraid of Quantifiable Numbers” and now I really need to know the answer… presented in PowerPoint.

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Sometimes I think my 4 yearold can read, but then I realize he’s memorized the name of every Octonauts episode and knows which episode number it is.

I can’t remember anything without googling and this kid has memorized 116 episode titles with only seeing some episodes once.

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Today is one of 4 days this month I don’t have a meeting.

Today is one of 3 days this month most of my classes have an easy plan.

Today is the day my youngest has a fever, making me need to stay home.

Tomorrow is a teacher work day.

Great timing, kid

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Sometimes it’s hard to take off work:
- Reasonable sub plans take time
- IEP meetings need to be rescheduled
- Reteaching of content needed due to inexperienced/overworked/understaffed subs

And all that added work tends to fall on unpaid time.

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

New TikTok video: All you need is addition

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6th grader: “I think you’re officially my first favorite teacher at this school. I’ll probably have more once I meet more of them, but you’re definitely my first favorite.”

“First favorite” is now *my* official “first favorite” phrase.

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My 4 yearold, after I some how set his dinner on fire and set off all the fire alarms in our house: Mommy, you did a really great job not burning yourself!

This is really the level of positive energy I’ve been needing recently.

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One of our neighbors tore down their house.
My 4 yearold spent an hour yesterday watching the excavator take it apart.
Today he watched as the men piled the rubble.

Makes me wonder how often construction workers have small children pulling up a lawn chair to watch them work.

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My 4 year old is telling my husband all about the time he participated in a pinball tournament… in a past life.

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“I spent way too long at a stop sign this morning waiting for it to change so I could go.”

Umm, your morning commute story just summed up my whole life.

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My new favorite classroom sensory tool is textured scrapbooking paper.

… as if I didn’t need anymore reasons to go to the craft store.

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@mshebertmusic 5 minutes… a little under two miles.

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@jlwhitfield1 Same same.
Can I just copy your homework and call it a week?

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My almost 4 yearold says “extra-size” instead of exercise.
“I have to extra-size so my arms get big and strong!”
I really enjoy seeing how he processes unfamiliar words.

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@MarlaMondora I love my room, thank you very much.
And if you’re granting wishes, can I have a hot cocoa machine?

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I like to complain about NC not having a proper winter.
I think admin must have overheard my lament and decided to cure my homesickness by giving me a classroom that’s perpetually a winter wonder land with its 62degree temp.

Crossing my fingers for in-class snow next week.

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At the end of the day I looked at my classroom and saw *all* the chairs pushed in and not a single paper on the ground.
My 8th period class left my room better than they found it.
I did not ask them to do this and it completely made my day.

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Yesterday I did a this or that of dragons vs unicorns. When a kid said unicorns “because they’re peaceful” and another claimed “dragons ARE peaceful” we had a good discussion on perception of dragons.
I think I’m gonna read them “Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon” now.

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2nd day of school… I’ll take it.

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I am simultaneously excited for and dreading tomorrow.

Judging by the emails I’ve received from students this weekend about school supplies, I imagine they’re feeling the same way.