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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
