Gabrielle Grys

US History Teacher at McGavock High School, MNPS | Vanderbilt University '18 🧠views are my own

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

My mantra in May: remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like y

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

@AbbottElemABC helped me handle my complicated feelings about being named TOY. A character said, "You can't choose when people acknowledge you." I appreciate this acknowledgment AND I am still growing. Thank you to the community of educators who hold me up each day.

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

@CheckOutThisAd I would love to hear the results!

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

Shoutout to my Lenten promise to severely limit Tik Tok consumption for being the only reason why I’ve graded all my AICE History essays in one night.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Someone asked me why is Black history, specifically, being targeted. I said it's because our history has always been political *by definition*: Our very presence on these lands is the greatest rebuke to the narrative of American exceptionalism. We give lie to the lie.

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

I thought being a historian would be cool but I'm just giving myself a headache trying to decipher cursive from 1717...

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

Having to blast a Spotify brown noise playlist in my headphones because they've decided to do a FIFTEEN MINUTE intercom test with zero warning that includes playing a random interview that I can't even place? Please tell me how this is functional.

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

Can anyone point me to research or data showing the efficacy of instructional coaches? I know some great individuals in these roles but I’m wondering why we have a lot of coaching jobs alongside classrooms without teachers…

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

This is why we need geography education.

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

I organized a faculty SOUP-er Bowl today and honestly it has been one of the highlights of my year. It doesn't take much to create some collective joy!

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

Nerded out making an example slide for a colleague. Might just have to use this in my own classroom soon. Who out there has done soundtrack projects before? #sschat #teaching #socialstudies

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

which are you #edchat #teacherlife #highschool

[Abigail Tylor @AbigailTylor]

I keep seeing supporters of the TN 3rd grade retention law say they just want our kids reading 'on grade level' and 'retention is a last resort with several ways to avoid it written into the law' as reasons to keep it as is.

I'm going to address that flawed thinking here. 🧵:

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

I've always been super intimidated by teachers who were able to gamify their classrooms. Taking advice from the ACTE conference I recently attended, I'm just trying one unit in one class. I'll keep you updated!

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

This quarter, I'll be taking you all with me on my experiment to "gamify" my Civil Rights freshmen elective course. Themed after my favorite show, The Amazing Race, over the next eight weeks we're going on The Great American Civil Rights Road Trip.

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

I anticipate that there will be many lessons learned through this process and a chance that the work I've put in doesn't lead to the student outcomes I want. But I won't know unless I try.

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

merry christmas your mnps password has expired

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

Great job by the cast, crew, and directors of @mcgavock_high ‘s fall play R.U.R. Fun fact: this play introduced the word “robot” to the English language! 🤖🎭

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

I just located my school’s adults only, $1, non-diet soda vending machine and it’s like Christmas came early.

[Gabrielle Grys @MissGrys]

anyone who comes to my Promethean Board model class tomorrow is getting a surprise 20 minute lesson on yellow fever in the 1800s!!!