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Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement Teaching Strategies

Is it really ALL or NOTHING!?!

It has been crazy this past month to collaborate with teachers around the world and hear all of their different situations, challenges, requirements, or lack there of. What I've noticed is that for the most part, based on the teachers I've been speaking with, we are divided into three groups.... WL Teachers who are required…

April 27, 2020Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement, Teaching Strategies

Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement Videos

#Selfcarechallenge with ME!

HOLA! Bonjour! Hello! Ni hao! Shu'mai! I hope that you're having a wonderful Saturday! I wanted to first off, THANK ALL of you who read my blog about putting my mask on first, and commented or sent me texts, emails, positive thoughts, energy, prayers, and messages afterwards. I am doing SO much better. Paul and…

April 11, 2020Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement, Videos

Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

Put your mask on first….

Tuesday night, I had a bit of a breakdown... It had been a LONG day full of CRAZY things...We woke up to 5 piles of vomit from cats or the dog... Then, I spilled my tea, then a cat sprayed Isla and me while we were working on math (and yes I know it is…

March 27, 2020Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

The Struggle is Real

There are LOADS of awesome parts of February! Black Lives Matter Week, Black History Black Futures Month, American Heart Health Month, Valentine's Day, My Mommy's Birthday, Mardi Gras, Baby Loco's birthday!! So MUCH AWESOME! but the reality is... February can be pretty sucky for teachers. Lauren Tauchman told me that more teachers quit in February…

February 28, 2020Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

You’re not doing it wrong, it really IS that hard…

As I reflect on 2019, I am so grateful for how much I've grown, all that I've learned and how far I've come in my journey as an educator, teacher trainer, mentor, coach and professional spreader of JOY! When it comes to my journey as a teacher, working to facilitate true acquisition for my students,…

December 31, 2019Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

Mommy, Daddy, YOU are enough…

I wasn't going to write a blog on this... but it has been weighing too heavy on my heart NOT to... Every month, every week, every conference, every workshop, every webinar, people ask me about how Baby Loco is doing... They ask how Isla Rose likes being a big sister.. and then their next question…

December 1, 2019Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

I am a NURSING, WORKING, TEACHER, MOMMY: TODAY is The First Day, of the REST of my career…

Today, I returned to work.... Today, was the first day of the rest of my career as a working mommy.... Today, my world was rocked, leaving my baby as I went to work knowing that my maternity leave was officially over... (I was only going to have 6 weeks since the leave was unpaid but…

July 22, 2019Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement Uncategorized Workshops/Conferences/Teacher Training

YOU are enough: More reflecting on iFLT18

My first reflection of iFLT focused on observations people made during debriefs of my learning lab. This second reflection is to focus on the overall "feeling" of this conference, and is a message that I have been wanting to write for quite some time. Mark Mallaney and I sat together on Wednesday evening and talked…

July 23, 2018Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement, Uncategorized, Workshops/Conferences/Teacher Training

Classroom Managment Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

The POWER of Positivity! From the mouths of babes….

Paul Kirschling is one of my incredible mentors, and inspirations in the teaching world. This year, he was honored as the Colorado Foreign Language Teacher of the Year. I had the opportunity to sit in on one of his presentations at CCFLT in February. It was called "Managing the Classroom with a Positive Environment in…

May 14, 2018Classroom Managment, Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement

You are REMARKABLE!

I just wanted to take a minute to tell you that YOU are remarkable! It is May! We have reached the end of another incredible school year! Full of ups and downs, twists and turns, laughs and tears, successes and failures and here you are! YAY! GO you, for trying something new this year! GO…

May 7, 2018Teacher Appreciation and Encouragement