Despite the awesome weather and end of the year jitters, my sixth graders have been working SO quietly and diligently over the last two days on their essay formatives. I can't wait to read these hard workers' papers! #proudteacher#13succeeds
"Somewhere behind the brightly colored packaging... there is a mountain of corn." -Omnivores Dilemma, Ch 1. Eighth grade wanted to find out for ourselves if this was true, so we sorted food labels into 2 piles: food containing corn on the left, food without corn on the right!
Some of this brain stuff can be challenging to understand! However, turning my room into a live, interactive brain makes it all a little more clear! #13succeeds#brainfun
When Steve Jobs' speech discusses how he connected the dots of his life, what else is there to do but to make our own real life dot-to-dot timeline?! #13succeeds
You have a choice. You can complain about things you can't control or you can control what you can and let go of what you can't. You can focus on your problems or focus on getting better. You can look for an excuse or you can look within and find your best.
WE GET WHAT WE MODEL!!!! When kids go home from school they may not tell their parents what they DID at school...but they will certainly tell their parents what they SAW at school. What do we want them to hear? #hackingleadership#1minwalk2work#leadfromwhereyouare
I just love coming in on Fridays and seeing the Wizard of the Week board filled with kind words from students to one another and seeing the H.O.T. question buckets full of student work! #13succeeds