Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher

“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.” ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿Marian Anderson

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@marymcintyre …just a bit too short….55/60 min would be just about right. Discipline referrals from classrooms drops on 7 pd/day. But I’ll bar none take ANY schedule that lets me see the kids everyday. 7 period or 4x4…I’ll take either over AB block. Retention, flow, focus all improve

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@marymcintyre I think I’ve taught on just about every schedule. They all have pros and cons. The drawbacks of 7 period/day center around the number of transitions/day (which increases the number of fights and exacerbates skipping…cuz, more time in the halls). As a teacher, I found 45 min…

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@NicholasFerroni And if you take time to fix it, there goes your only 3 min bathroom 🚽 break 🕰️ of the entire day.

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@RAD_is_awesome Here’s hopin’ we blow fewer fuses than that house during said PD. 🎁

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@CherylStrayed @JDaviesPhD Cheryl had the best answer. She really did walk a long way 🥾

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@SarahBreckley Not the kids’ favorite because their hands get really dry, but in a financial pinch… Class trip to the bathroom after

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@SarahBreckley Hmmm…that might have been the school select brand they gnarled so easily… I just hate making kids sit in desks all class, so many markers are sacrificed…

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@SarahBreckley Sidewalk chalk is also a favorite secret lesson plan…we’d do the bus loop near Election Day with voter information, Constitution Day, and you can make anything a review game if you teach them hopscotch (with chalk)… 🖍️ 🖍️

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

I had a principal years ago who used to walk around before holiday breaks and tell us t’s to “just keep the lid on it”. Every year at this time, I am reminded why….

[B.B. Alston @bbalston]

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[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@DGComedy 🐍 in a 🎂?

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@msrebeccabirch Because there is a direct correlation between use of “kiddos” and folks who don’t actually teach/interact with said “kiddos”, perhaps?

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@yesthatteacher @mrsldwelsh The tictoc and screens…kids are just passengers. Passive. Kids today don’t read—which is the most tremendous builder of focus and thinking. Screens have become the tool of choice for parents and teachers and it’s not doing our kids any good.

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

Every time I want to judge the things that my students do— I remember that this is what I did on my answering machine…

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@emilynussbaum All Creatures Great and Small

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@EDUwithEmily You earned them (not given) 😃

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

New history standards from Va. education department called 'political meddling' by critics - The Washington Post https://t.co/ffDHyRAHFk

[Old Growth 🌳 🌲 Teacher @MsHNewman]

@RAD_is_awesome Wait, r u going to teach us Think Pair Share…again? Man, I love when you teach veteran educators TPS after school on a Wed…again. Hot ticket strategy—mind blowing. 🧠 classroom altering. 🤯