There’s one thing we can rely on in education: change. As much as we try to prepare and plan, we can’t avoid it. However, the biggest change most of us will see in our teaching career came last March. We were all shook when schools started closing and fears started rising in the midst of a world-wide pandemic. All educators…
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Distance Learning with Benchmark Advance
In the last 2 weeks, the way we teach has been completely flipped upside down. We are no longer going into our classrooms every day and seeing our amazing students hard at work. With all of the uncertainties, how do we remain consistent for our students? How do we keep our sanity? What can we do to enable our students…
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Teaching with Benchmark Advance
Benchmark Advance. The comprehensive ELA program for elementary students. I don’t know about you, but when my district first rolled out Benchmark, I was OVERWHELMED. I am definitely a type A personality. I need everything organized and clear, and this new curriculum really had my head spinning. Now, don’t get me wrong, I felt like the content and information was…
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Hello world!
I’m so excited to finally launch my new blog! I have wanted to start something like this for a while now. But, you know how it goes, you get all these amazing ideas over the summer and then…well, school starts and it gets crazy! There’s a million things on the to-do list, and some ideas just fall flat. Well this…
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