Gretchen

Edu. M.A. Teach Plus Fellow-Alum. Peace Corps 🇸🇳. I talk about education, running, nature, baked goods, parenting, and health. My views are mine alone.

[Gretchen @offgridteacher]

Baby girl (aka Little One) has arrived! What started with a routine appointment led us to rush to the hospital for me to be induced and eventually deliver, but she’s here and is perfect. My friends and family were asked to send prayers for her, I’d love that from you too.

[Gretchen @offgridteacher]

@musings_blonde We don’t need the entire month of October to be a holiday. Halloween is one day.

[Chris Fore @chriscfore]

Administrators!
If you don't have anything pertinent enough to pull the whole staff together, cancel that monthly staff meeting!!

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@royllovians I’m driving my daughter 35- 40 minutes each way to go to a tech-free Waldorf school.

[Abby Boruff @AbbyTeachesDSM]

“The largest evaluation of an instructional coaching program to date, published this month in the journal @EEPAjournal found no benefits to either teacher retention or student test scores from an intensive, expensive teacher-coaching model used in hundreds of schools.”

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@O_TooleKathleen @MTMehan It’s soooooo good!

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@educator4ever36 Also road cycling.

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@educator4ever36 Skiing and boating too.

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@sarahlouwou FINALLY

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@theprofspage @numberblocks Oh we’re big fans, my daughter watches it and uses the number blocks sets I have purchased for her.

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My 2 year old has been asking me a lot of math questions lately. This morning it was “What do 3 3’s make? What do 14 and 14 make? What do 6 and 10 make?” The teacher part of me wants to stop and explain things. Am I wrong to just… tell her the answer sometimes?

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@DavidDack Coffee, a pop-tart, and an apple.

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@BookOfTheDayUS Ninja Potty Break

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@530BruceRoss @Empty_America My students at my old school in far rural NotCal were obsessed!

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@JamesAFurey Yeah, this was me as a kid, and now I’m repeating the same with my daughter. One of the reasons why I’m opting for private school.

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My child’s Waldorf school ‘s fall performance was on Saturday. It’s m put on by the parents, but includes a puppet scene by the pre-K teachers.

We just found out my daughter’s teacher’s mom died the day before. She (the teacher) puppeteered with joy for an entire evening. 🥺

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@DavidDack I don’t want to add up how much I spent taking my family with me for the Disneyland Half Marathon.

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@530BruceRoss 😂😂😂😂 I know that field well.

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@VictoriaTheTech I learned the hard way that RunDisney races are not a place to try to run fast. 😂

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There’s nothing like being woken up by your toddler at 6:02 am because they want to play hockey.

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@AK_El_Jefe I’m so sorry.