tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38728062373507862582024-03-05T02:29:33.419-05:00TEACH IT WRITE Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-50576053638434899672018-07-31T18:16:00.001-04:002018-07-31T23:51:07.603-04:00Win a GIFT CARD for the TpT #BTSSALE
UPDATE
When I thought up that last idea for the $10.00 Gift Card Giveaway, it didn't occur to me that my teacher colleagues would NOT be in a writing mode. I do apologize!!! So-o-o-
LET'S TRY THIS IDEA:
NO WRITING 😁!!!
JUST POST YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER MEME HERE BY NOON TOMORROW-AUGUST 1ST.
I'LL RANDOMLY SELECT ONE AT 12:30
TO WIN THE
$10.00 GIFT Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-13446222413627232242018-07-22T21:38:00.000-04:002018-07-22T21:38:10.612-04:00CLASS MATTERS is Launched!
Just in time to be ready for a new year, but still kick back and enjoy summer. Check it out!
CLASS MATTERS: Planning, Teaching,
and Managing Secondary Classes includes handouts and printables
to meet teachers' wants and needs in these three focus areas, and also offers
posts that suggest how, when and why the various focuses will be most useful to them. Although some ofConniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-3668777803893676192018-07-21T17:40:00.002-04:002018-07-21T17:47:45.386-04:00Class Matters Coming Soon
DAYS AWAY FROM LAUNCHING: CLASS MATTERS
Since I am always concerned with What
Teachers Want
besides What
Teachers Need,
whenever the chance arises, I ask classroom colleagues these two questions.
Although a fine line exists between Want –desires for a satisfying career-
and Need-
what is necessary for a successful career, all too often during a school term,
we teachers know theConniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-78851432337090840192018-05-21T11:55:00.000-04:002018-05-22T09:29:33.332-04:00PTA- 12 Summer Ac-Cool-Ades for you!
12 Summer Ac-Cool-Ades for Teachers, Administrators, and Parents
Click! Click! Click! From
about the third week of May through the third week of June, this clatter
resonates around the country as teachers, parents and administrators snap off
their alarm clocks, roll over to catch a few more zzzzzs and sigh, “Finally!”
Teachers, parents and administrators are the triple-tined spear
that Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-83123795697723467742018-05-07T09:55:00.000-04:002018-05-07T09:55:05.198-04:00Teachers can and do, and do, and do!
Tomorrow, May 8th is National
Teacher Appreciation Day. Better than that, some places celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week from May 7th-11th.
My former school district chooses to honor their teachers with a full week of
goodies. That makes my colleagues still leading classrooms very happy.
In appreciation for all that teachers can do and choose to do,
and do, and do, here is an alphabetic Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-81014420538053418282018-04-03T15:27:00.000-04:002018-04-03T15:27:36.571-04:007 ways to Savor April's Poetic Sensory Explosion
Mother Nature must
be in an incredibly perverse mood this April, because she is continuing to hold the Mid-Atlantic region captive under dismal, gray skies and chilled from February-Early
March temperatures. And did I mention precipitation?
When it is not misting or raining - lots and lots of rain - the weather-wand lady
is emptying buckets of wintery mix on our heads.
Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-19454441560376841692017-09-22T13:51:00.000-04:002018-04-03T12:20:40.535-04:00 ALA's Banned Book Week ignites oral and written conversations
This Sunday, September 24th, begins the American Library Association's week-long celebration of the "Right to Read."They are focusing this year's celebration on the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-26643976128004532332017-09-15T13:01:00.000-04:002018-07-28T12:48:00.157-04:008 thinking, writing and discussing activities to hook students
8 thinking, writing and discussing
activities to hook students
https://openclipart.org
Educators know that they must bait their
students' brains with activities that will lure their charges into picking up their
pens, pencils, or computersConniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-59496124088684095642017-08-31T12:42:00.002-04:002017-08-31T12:42:45.948-04:00Labor Day means a Battle of Emotions for present and former teachers
The last few days, a feeling of
having forgotten to do something but not being able to remember what it is has
dogged me. Finally, in the middle of last night, I dinged onto the answer. I’m missing the last minute lesson plan finalizing, checking off my Things to
Do checklist, i.e. copying handouts, gathering textbooks from storage, making
sure my sub folder is complete and keepingConniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-25624514014926347122017-08-21T16:40:00.000-04:002018-06-26T09:40:21.347-04:00Kick off fall studies with H.G. Bissinger's 'Friday Night Lights'
Classroom Colleagues,
This is a revised post about H.G. Bissinger's iconic book about high school football, Friday Night Lights. I originally posted it a few years ago on this site, but wanted to update it because it is such a terrific way to hook students' fall football psyches into reading as it fuels many an analytic discussion about Academics vs. Athletics and other societal issues.
“I Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-51401725163805413752016-05-02T13:24:00.001-04:002016-05-02T13:24:49.274-04:00CELEBRATE TEACHERS!No matter our jobs, careers, titles or the letters at the end of our names-we earned what we are by learning from teachers. Colleagues and friends still leading classrooms, THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Every day, but especially during Teacher Appreciation Days, I celebrate you.
Although I have said it before, two of my Teacher Appreciation Day posts share how much I love and support teachersConniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-22538279359764865402016-04-20T11:53:00.000-04:002016-04-20T11:53:00.878-04:00Create a calm classroom oasis in the chaotic testing month of MayApril showers might bring Mayflowers, as the old pun states, but in today's classrooms, May blossoms with a garden variety of testing, from Advanced Placement to End of Year, or Standards of Learning exams, or whatever name your. school district calls its tests. Oh, yes, Make-Up Test Days also add rain on teachers' lesson plans, blurring their day's goals. To add to the questionConniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-31057845388738066202016-04-07T13:03:00.000-04:002016-04-07T13:03:28.309-04:00Great Sites! Enjoy A Double Hit of Teaching PropositionsSometimes, usually on rainy Thursdays - like today, I can spend hours skimming through my favorite Internet sites for next week's teaching inspiration and find nothing to turn my rain-induced mental frown upside down.
Other times, my surfing strikes my Enthusiasm Jackpot Bell. One of the items that makes my Creative Muse clunk me on my brain and exclaim, "Need inspiration? Check these Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-22851919397476755202016-03-30T12:46:00.000-04:002016-03-30T13:01:58.877-04:00Add Spring to Students' Learning with this Quartet of ActivitiesMy goodness I have been away for awhile! Maybe Punxutawney Phil saw his shadow, but my Writing Muse didn't. She has been hibernating sense the beginning of February.
While she snoozed, I spent the time revising product covers which led to updating some of my activities. Why the cover makeovers? A former teaching colleague and still a good friend started a store on TpT, and I love, love, Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-82767752028838967802016-01-31T14:04:00.000-05:002016-01-31T14:04:05.489-05:00Melt February lethargy with mesmerizing activities
Are your students sinking into hibernation mode like the groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, does when he sees his shadow?
Is their attention and motivation yawning them into the recesses of their minds for another six weeks of sleep?
Has your Planning Muse become a victim of the February Fickle Flu, that insidious malady where your creativity mirrors the frigid one day, balmy the next weather?Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-80825603613701692462016-01-17T12:02:00.000-05:002016-01-17T12:02:17.436-05:00It's time for 'The Academic Awards for Literature'!
This morning, I was reading The Washington Post's Book section and saw that The Martian by Andy Weir, The Revenant by Michael Punke and Brooklyn by Colm Toibin all made the top paperback book sales for last week. Why did these titles ring an, "Aha!" bell in my not-quite-caffeinated-enough brain? Because just this past week, I read their titles on the Academy Award nominations Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-45271481827712879312016-01-15T04:00:00.000-05:002016-01-15T09:39:39.358-05:00Lessons For Those, "Oh No! I Need a Sub!" Days
Oh No! During the night, the cat clawed your washing machine hose and water sprayed your laundry room until you turned the water valve to Off and duck taped the holes. Your 7-year old daughter chose that moment to throw up last night's beef stew in her bed, and you feel like that tin monkey playing cymbals is marching through your head.
After leaving an EMERGENCY! message for Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-5058622545359715862015-12-08T13:16:00.000-05:002015-12-08T13:16:24.260-05:00A WInter Tingly,Jingly Jam for My Classroom ColleaguesI am so, so thrilled that the wonderful editors for the C.L.A.S.S. newsletter published my poem, A Teacher's Winter Holiday Jingle in the December issue of this classy publication! If you are a secondary ELA or Social Studies teacher, you should check out this awesome newsletter. In it you will find a plethora of great articles, ideas, and freebies for secondary ELA and Social Studies Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-17976421562765434062015-11-29T12:51:00.000-05:002015-11-29T13:29:53.850-05:00TpT CYBER SALEThe Carpenters were right on target when they sang, "...Rainy days and Mondays always get me down" in 1971 (Rainy Days and Mondays The Carpenters).
When that gloomy Monday -or Tuesday- is the one following Thanksgiving break and a is also a mere month before Winter vacation, teachers desperately need to turn their frowns upside down.
They can do that by fast-walking their fingers over their Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-15773852594944406482015-11-22T16:26:00.000-05:002015-11-22T16:30:50.204-05:00PRE-THANKSGIVING VACATION TpT SALE
To All of my English Language Arts colleagues-
I wish you a relaxing vacation with family and friends.
So you don't have to cram in planning before your break, and
So you don't have to endure a grumpy week after your much deserved vacation,
I am having a 15% off EVERYTHING SALE in my TpT store
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Along Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-33430999967095037532015-10-15T19:42:00.000-04:002015-10-15T19:42:39.888-04:00Secondary Smorgasbord - All Treats & No Tricks for Teachers Blog Hop
Secondary Smorgasbord - All Treats & No Tricks for Teachers
Teachers Resource Goody Bags must always be reviewed, and updated with fresh material. The problem is- by the end of the day, or a non-stop week- who has the energy to mine their exhausted brains for engaging, challenging, and inspiring new ideas?
The solution is nearer and easier than you can imagine. Present Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-25192520222486880442015-09-25T11:27:00.000-04:002015-09-25T11:27:35.955-04:00If it’s Autumn, it’s time for… College Recommendation Letters
It's beginning to look like college application
time!
Everywhere teachers go
Is a senior with an app, and an activity
sheet to adapt
To a recommendation that makes that
student glow.
High school teachers, are you in hiding yet? No, not from
administrators in search of your yearly objectives, parents with daily requests
for Bubba and Zelda’s progress in your
classes, or Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-15943071879047982402015-08-30T13:08:00.000-04:002015-08-30T13:08:49.127-04:00 ALL Teachers - Need the gift of time? Check out these plans
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Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-12499551241766688392015-08-24T12:27:00.002-04:002015-08-24T12:27:28.397-04:00Make a Home for the Unit Plan-'Neverhome'
Image from Amazon http://amzn.to/1NF0O71
From the first page of Neverhome by
Laird Hunt, I was mesmerized. Was my absorption due to
~the first line, “I was strong and he was not, so it was me went to war
to defend the republic”?
~ the knowledge that women masqueraded as men to fight in the Civil
War?
~ Laird Hunt’s ability to spin mere words into vivid and Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872806237350786258.post-58620096374946976172015-08-02T12:54:00.000-04:002015-08-02T12:54:29.701-04:00First Day Tried & True Linky Party
Ahhhh! As these lazy, hazy days of summer wrap most of the country in humidity,teachers are enjoying a few days to a few weeks of sleeping in, basking in the luxury of traveling to the tick tock of their own clocks, and catching up with months of saved TV shows.
The first teaching-related stress/frustration dream has yet to invade their restful sleep with images of Joey who Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15995989288240466877noreply@blogger.com0