• My Guaranteed Strategy for Building Relationships with Students

    Weekend Journals are a wonderful tool for allowing students to share everything they’d probably rather tell you as soon as they walk in the door on Monday morning but you don’t have time to listen to. #sadtruth  I love these as a tool for building relationships with my students and getting to know their interests and […]

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  • My Unusual Journey to a Full-Time Teaching Position

    I knew since I was in kindergarten that I wanted to be a teacher. However, my journey to becoming a full-time teacher wasn’t easy. How It Began It started in 2011 when I began teaching pre-k. Then, at the beginning of 2012, I became a substitute teacher. I joined the Teachers Pay Teachers community in […]

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