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I hope you have heard of genius hour or 20% time before and that this will be just an extra post to highlight its amazingness. However, if you haven’t or are not quite sure how to do a genius hour, please read and hopefully be inspired to do it with your students. Genius hour first… Continue reading What’s So Genius about Genius Hour?
One of many things I love when on break is the chance to simply reconnect with amazing people, and when said amazing people are fellow educators, you can bet that it doesn’t take long for the conversation to turn to how to make the educational experience better for all kids. After dinner, I was left… Continue reading Re-thinking Our Learning to Infuse More Joy and Choice
Being a teacher who presents, which is a very new adventure for me, has been quite interesting to say the least. I didn’t know just how few of us there are that actually are able to go out and talk about the things that we do with our students and still stay in the classroom.… Continue reading Have You Heard of the Teachers Leading Teachers Conference?
I start every year with a massive to try list, I think most of us do, so slowly as the year unfolds I whittle it down, thing by thing, idea by idea. Try a new reading angle, come up with a new math challenge, how about a better project approach, or incorporating more genius hour.… Continue reading The One Thing Challenge – Join Me
I continue to ponder the concept of joy in schools and more so the seeming lack of it. Yet, I look at my own classroom and I know that we have a lot of joy. Not all the time, not in everything we do, but there is a lot of joy in what we do.… Continue reading How I Brought Back Joy in My Classroom
There is something almost palpable in the air in a 5th grade classroom after spring break. It is as if the students were replaced by 6th graders so suddenly that it never ceases to startle me. Where did my 5th graders go and who are these new kids? I used to fear spring break and… Continue reading After Spring Break Some New Ideas to Try
Pernille Ripp 