Academic language is (and has been) making a big impact in elementary school classrooms. Academic language gives students the skills to communicate, engage, and participate more effectively in content areas across the curriculum. After learning about academic language through reading…
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Being the daughter of a teacher meant always having to stay after school to help your mom with #alltheschoolthings. Stapling papers, sorting class work, sharpening the pencils. The teacher-daughter job I remember the most vividly was tracing my mom’s master…
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Congratulations on getting your first teaching position! You’re probably sorting through so many emotions and feeling very anxious and excited about starting off your new career, and that’s totally normal! All veteran teachers look back at their first year and…
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Growth Mindset. The understanding that intelligence can be developed. It’s not worrying about how smart you are or how good you are at something, but instead it’s about how you can become smarter and better. Constantly a work in progress,…
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