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Although I hope none of them are reading this blog. It just makes me feel better to put it out there... To My Friends: I don't know how to adequately thank you for making me who I am today. I had a feeling I was supposed to be a teacher someday, but working
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Friends, we have made it to the last Friday in January! (Feel free to cheer.) As my final post-related List Mania, I thought I would subject you to treat you to a grouping of my favorites. These are the posts that make ME laugh when I read them, and I
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So, I know I've been linking to tons of articles lately and I promise to get back to the usual hilarity of the classroom, but just too much has been going on. My little brain is on fire and my eyes are bleeding from staring at the computer screen. Plus,
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Alternative title for this post - When Are We Going To Stop Shafting the Good Stuff? Yesterday I gave some ideas (Okay, I gave THE idea that will change your LIFE.) about how to organize all the crap we teachers feel the need to shlep home every night
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(Wait until you see this! A successful image link! Internet - I have mastered your ***. BOOYAH!) (Feel free to exchange high fives with the person nearest to you in my honor.) Friends, I have been sharing with you intimate details of my professional thoughts
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In my quest to Be Positive In 2010 (Take Three), I have made an honest effort to choke down that horrible feeling I get when things start to get all kinds of jacked up and despite my weeks of planning and preparation are totally out of my control because
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Schools are amazing places. So many exciting things happen in schools and if you are a Super Nerd like myself, all that learning and list making gives you the chills. In a good way. A very good, very nerdy way. However (and you had to know that with me
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So, maybe my invitation got lost in the mail, but how am I the last one to the party for this ? (And if you can believe it, that little picture is an actual LINK to the book! I have mastered the Internets!) I don't know how I feel about this book. As
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(Stu, my loyal reader, this one's for you!) Since many of you wrote and said you enjoyed my dissection of articles, I thought I would include this one because it acknowledges that schools need even more than just good teachers to make significant changes.
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(That's how that saying goes, right?) Yesterday, while tooting my own horn (It's true!), I asked you what you might like to read about in the coming days. Because Mrs. Mimi's brain is tired. In the coming days, I will try my best to honor your requests
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(Not my best title, I know. But it's 4pm and I have yet to post!) Teachers, at least elementary school teachers, are hoarders. We heart saving things with the rationale that "someday I might need this for (enter name of obscure project here) and if I
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Happy Martin Luther King Day everybody! I hope you just woke up (LATE!) and are lingering over coffee and Matt Lauer. Don't late anybody hate on your day off . Just savor it, friends, savor it. (And for those of you who don't have the day off or perhaps
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Warning: refresh your coffees. lattes, cocktails (Hey, who am I to judge?) now because it's about to get heavy up in here. I was catching up on my reading this morning, when I stumbled upon this little old commentary by a professor at Williams College.
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I just came from the gym. Being pregnant has motivated me to exercise in a way that nothing has since the motivation of my wedding dress. Nice dedication, right? Soooooo....how are we all doing with our New Year's Resolutions? Hmmm? By a show of hands,
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It's FRIDAY!!! That means Happy Hour people! Happy Hour! Cocktails, drinks with little umbrellas, overly-fatty cocktail food...the works! I hope you have plans to go out and enjoy it. When I first started teaching, we religiously met in my classroom approximately
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