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Sharing successes and challenges through teaching while becoming a (hopefully) published author.

Finding Joy in Covid Teaching

Finding Joy in Covid Teaching

Teaching double duty this week with six kids in class and twenty something online. It has been a month of dealing with covid in my class. I am working hard to find joy this week through reducing my workload and focusing on my favourites: writing stories and doing art!

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Are you assessing ideas or printing? Decriminalize supports!

Are you assessing ideas or printing? Decriminalize supports!

Are you wanting to assess ideas but kids in your class have trouble sharing their thinking in writing? This post will give you a few low-tech supports for kids and walk through using voice-to-text to support your students in expressing their ideas more clearly with confidence. We need to decriminalize supports in the classroom to support all learners.

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