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Tests, Quizzes and Grades
One of the changes I made this year is I stopped giving end of unit/chapter tests. Our school is using Achievement Network to administer benchmark exams every 6 weeks and we have arranged our...
View Article#flipclass Flash-Blog Late Work Policy
As the title suggests today's #flipclass chat is about late work and our policies for accepting/grading it.Mine is pretty simple. I will take all work up until about 2 days before grades are due....
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More Positive News!
We had our 3rd benchmark exams this past week and I was pretty excited to see the results.The first group is 5th grade and on the second benchmark I didn't have any standards reach even 60%. In 6th...
View ArticleMaking Progress with Word Problems
My students have always struggled with word problems and even the students who get "the answer" have a very hard time explaining their work. On Friday we tried two things that really seemed to help...
View ArticleSurvived the first round of PARCC!
This week my students took the PBA tests. I have to say it seemed to go quickly and pretty painlessly despite having a snow day on Thursday!I was really good about not peeking at their screens, but I...
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Small Classrooms and Other Thoughts
I've had many things that I want/need to blog about, but since I read so many wonderful blogs, I often start and stop since I am not a confident writer. I've also been missing the weekly #flipclass...
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March Reflections
I have to say these past two months have been one of the most challenging and emotional times I can remember. The challenges certainly include the PARCC testing we had this month and after seeing...
View ArticleBlog a Day April Challenge!
Yes! I am happy to have found a blog a day challenge! I am going to play catch up here and post two more blog posts so I feel complete for April.I always do best when "playing along" with these...
View ArticleUnionized
Something I have not blogged about but I am very involved in is the fact that our charter school just voted to unionize.I have had very mixed feeling about this, but I am someone who voted yes. It...
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#aprilblogaday Spring Planning
Spring Break 2015! Woo hooo! After a lovely holiday with my family and getting to really know and love our new puppy, I have only two thoughts on my mind... Spring cleaning and spring planning for...
View Article#aprilblogaday 6th Grade Measures of Center and Variablilty
Before break we touched a little on these topics with the intent to dive in a little deeper once we come back. I feel like students got the basics down and could calculate mean, median, mode, range,...
View Article#aprilblogaday Spring Break Nothingness
Today was one of those days that I did nothing but play silly facebook games and was proud of it! Its spring break and I am enjoying this down time! Tomorrow I plan to go into school, organize some...
View Article#AprilBlogADay Number Talks
I've been reading about these for so long and finally took the time to fit it in. What fun! The coolest thing is that my students really seemed to enjoy it and bought into it 100%! I started off...
View ArticleWriter's Paralysis
Boy do I ever have this! I can't call it writers block because I feel like that is when you can't think of anything to write about. I have too much stuff going through my mind and I think that is...
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The Countdown Is ON!
Every year I am amazed at how fast the time goes. This year it was seriously on warp speed. I feel that this was because I changed grade levels and because it was my first born's senior year. I am...
View ArticleEnd of Year Reflections Pt 1 GRADES
I still have almost a full two weeks left of school, but it is the end and as I said before IT came terrifyingly fast.Tomorrow is the last day for accepting any graded assignments since final grade are...
View ArticleEnd of Year Reflections Pt 2 Random thoughts
I've started writing this blog post about 5 times since my last post. Changing the title and content every time. To make it easier I'll throw it all together. I will probably blog about each of these...
View ArticleParent Contact Log
I've said before that this year I have really learned to love Google Drive and since I have learned so much reading other teachers blogs I am always looking to share things that I find helpful. This...
View ArticleParent Contact Log pt 2
After sharing my idea for the parent contact log using Goggle Forms I couldn't stop thinking about how something was missing. Thankfully it didn't take too long to figure out what it was. One of the...
View ArticleWaaaaay Out of My Comfort Zone
This summer I am tutoring a former student of mine in Algebra 2. She didn't pass the course and has to attend summer school in order to receive credit.She is a great student but makes silly mistakes....
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