Back-to-School time always means starting fresh with clean desk. . . setting up where you will lesson plan, where you will grade, and where you will rummage for an afternoon snack. If you just can’t wait, scroll to the bottom of the blog for a giveaway! We don’t want...
Happy New Year, Teachers! The beginning of the school year often feels more to me like January 1 than the actual January 1. For those of us who live on an academic calendar, this is our time of year to make resolutions: we start afresh, buying new backpacks and...
We are all more than teachers. . . We are also family members, friends, parents, church leaders, community organizers, amateur bowlers, runners, and chefs. At school alone, many of us take on additional responsibilities like becoming grade level leaders, department...
Thirty minutes into any Together Teacher workshop, when we start talking about consolidating the many calendars that come our way as teachers, a hand inevitably shoots up: “Should I put my personal stuff and professional stuff on the same calendar?” This question is...
Evernote is everywhere! In a nutshell, Evernote is an electronic notebook that allows you to take notes on separate notebook pages, create notebooks and then organize your notebooks into stacks. No more lugging around a burly five-subject notebook! No more starting...
