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Keeping Your Bulletin Board Headings Straight
It’s definitely back to school season – I have seen so many beautiful bulletin boards in the Bulletin Board FB group! I have been working in Mr. B’s classroom for a couple of days helping him to set up his kindergarten room for the new year, and he is not particularly interested in classroom decor so I have had free reign. His only caveats were not to do anything with shiplap, cacti, llamas or any thing too cutesy. He wanted bold and bright, so we went with pirates! (You can check out our favorite pirate books in this post). One thing that I have had to deal with over the…
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How to have a B.R.I.G.H.T. Back to School Season
It’s here! Summer is over and we are back in school. For some it is a first job, a new career after working so hard in college and the first time having their OWN students and their own classroom. Such an exciting and overwhelming time! For others, it is a change of school, a different grade level, or a change of direction. That is equally nerve-racking and exhilarating. And many others are in the same school, the same grade with the same teacher co-workers, ready to nurture and grow a whole new group of students. Having a B.R.I.G.H.T beginning back to school season is a simple way of remembering 6…
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Getting the Most out of Meet and Greet Night
When I began teaching in the States I dreaded ‘Meet and Greet’ night. I had never experienced it in the UK and wasn’t sure what to expect. That first night was a mess. I appeared disorganized and spent too long with some parents and barely met others. Some people went home with important paperwork, others didn’t. I couldn’t put any names to faces and I worried that parents thought I was incompetent. (Full disclosure: I probably was). But what doesn’t break you makes you stronger, and by Year 2 I had upped my game and knew a little more about what I needed to do. If you are about to…
