the FUN Learning teacher

I love teaching elementary school. I am also a nerd forever because I love learning.

[Jimmy Casas @casas_jimmy]

Three things you will see today in successful organizations with heatlhy cultures.

1. Everyone in the organization wants everyone else to experience success.
2. People give others permission to help them be successful.
3. People take care of each other with an “I got you” mindset and behavior.

#Culturize

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Strengths based is Growth-mindset.

[Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher]

At the end of each week, it's always a good practice to stop and think about the good parts! 🎉

That's just what educator @SELebrateYOU's anchor chart is for.

#SELChat

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

Powerful. 🧡

[Emily Paschall @EmilyAPaschall]

Say. It. Louder. 👏

Let data be your flashlight, not your hammer! #multiplyexcellence

[Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @ImtaBrendan]

Five step guide to creating a questioning culture in the classroom. Thank you @MrRobHistory.
Planning and patience are key features.

[Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher]

No one knows the ⚡️power⚡️ of a good question like a T!

Check out this roundup, assembled by educator @AshleyPTaplin.

[edutopia @edutopia]

“When teachers lay out some expectations that say, ‘You *can* do this,’ kids will work as hard as they can to do it.” 🧡

[Library Girl - See Pinned Tweet @jenniferlagarde]

Just for fun, I’m creating monthly reading challenges/coloring sheets for readers of all ages - because both reading and coloring help to reduce stress. Here's the one for March. Happy reading and coloring, y'all! FREE Download: https://t.co/ScsZhXJJM9

[TCEA @TCEA]

❗Things I Wish I’d Known as an Instructional Coach❗

❓❓What would you add?

https://t.co/LMIwXIWi31 @diben
#educoach #edutwitter #icoach

[Daphne McMenemy @McMenemyTweets]

Build a wall of QRs to showcase student work! We had this up all year and stapled new codes on top as new content was created.

Families and staff loved seeing the work, but mostly, the kids loved seeing their work and that of their peers. This served as an opportunity to learn about feedback, constructive and positive. Something I had not thought of when our showcase wall was first created.

It made a huge difference to our learning and to the community we'd created in our classroom. Confidence, independence, and initiative grew in ways I had not expected.

[Kyle Niemis 🔜 #ISTE26 @KyleNiemis]

I just learned that a 360 interactive @ThingLink embeds beautifully into a @Quizizz lesson! I love me a good app smash! 💥

@scotlandlouise @jneale

#edtech #teachertwitter #edchat #teachersoftwitter #teachers #youcanwithquizizz #quizizz

[TCEA @TCEA]

Got those @Canva hacks??? We do❗❗

https://t.co/07GhOMqEqt @tceajmg
#cooltools #edtech #edutwitter

[Google for Education @GoogleForEdu]

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s new add-ons coming to #GoogleClassroom! Later this year, Education Plus users or those with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade can find ten new Classroom partners including Kami, Quizzizz, & Boom Learning. Read more: https://t.co/0EgClLrFxQ

[Book Creator from Kami @BookCreatorApp]

WOW! The crowd at booth 2045 right now!!!! Go @jmattmiller #TCEA! Come on over

[TCEA @TCEA]

Does GROUP WORK time need a bit of tweaking? Try these 17 ideas 👇

https://t.co/zmLiQr2YJr via @cultofpedagogy
#teaching #learning #educhat

[the FUN Learning teacher @LearnTeachTech]

Fun 🤩

[Eliyas Mohmmed @EliyasMohmmed]

A FUN COMBINATION OF CODING...
Skills covered :
* Problem-solving skills
* Reading & writing practice
* Fine motor development
* Coding
* Boosts concentration

[TCEA @TCEA]

❓Open Ended Questions❓

https://t.co/mn1Sc3nK45 via @judyhanning
#teachersoftwitter #skillbuilding #k12

[the FUN Learning teacher @LearnTeachTech]

Beautiful

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

I absolutely love this story........ It made me cry.

"An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.

I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.
“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”

“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.
As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.

1) You have to laugh and find humor every day.

2) You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

3) There is a huge difference between growing
older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.

If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older.

That doesn’t take any talent or ability.

The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.

4) Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those
with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.
At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died
peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s
never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS
OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get,

We make a Life by what we give."