With Sadness and Anger

With Sadness and Anger It’s easier to stick to planners, calendars, To-Do lists, PD materials, electronic notebooks and uplifting stories of teachers working hard every day than express to you my feelings about the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut....
Digital Detox

Digital Detox

Dear Together Teachers, Greetings! I hope you all are enjoying a happy and rejuvenating holiday break. Here at the Together Teacher, we are celebrating with a semi-Digital Detox. On my analog agenda, I’m looking forward to cookie-baking, movie-watching, second-baby...
FAQ: How Do I Clean Up My Clipboard?

FAQ: How Do I Clean Up My Clipboard?

We teachers cannot live without our clipboards. To this day, I cannot teach without a clipboard in hand. It’s like my security blanket; I feel safely wrapped up with my pacing guide, anecdotal notes, and lesson plans. The challenge, of course, is that clipboards get...
Combination Innovation: Comprehensive Calendar + Upcoming To-Do List

Combination Innovation: Comprehensive Calendar + Upcoming To-Do List

Since we recently posted on keeping your Comprehensive Calendar in Outlook, we didn’t want to ignore our paper lovers. Here’s a nifty sample—a Comprehensive Calendar and an Upcoming To-Do List —all on the same page. As teachers, we face two kinds of To-Dos: Hard...
Modify Your Mate

Modify Your Mate

It was great fun to recently bump into Jocelyn G. in Boston. Jocelyn was one of our original Together Teacher workshop attendees some years ago, and she continues to be a thoughtful, dedicated, and Together teacher—now over a decade into her career. Jocelyn is a...