“And the Award Goes To…” Using Testing Season as a Growth Mindset Life Lesson for Students
You can use testing season as a chance to teach your students about a growth mindset, visualizing success, and planning to achieve it–and you can make it fun!
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Going Green in Your Classroom – Earth Day Inspired Ideas (I’ve used these!)
April 22, 2021 This week, we will celebrate Earth Day, an annual event started in 1970 to inspire people to clean up our planet and make conscientious decisions in our everyday life. We see community celebrations, clean ups and crafts dedicated to this, but how can you apply this mindset to your classroom’s everyday practices. …
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Self-Care for Educators: With a Little Planning, You Can Get the Time You Need for YOU
Educators need to take time off regularly to replenish. I share my tips for daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly down time to restore my sanity, soul, and health.
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Using Menus to Inspire Student-Guided Learning
Use learning menus to create an engaging student-centered model for teaching that can be used for a variety of lessons, grades and subjects.
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Tracking Like a STAR – How to Maximize Your Evaluation
March 12, 2021 Evaluations are a dreaded part of being a teacher. We teach all day for 180 days a year but have only a handful of observations to catch us in action. Some teachers just teach like a regular day, some prepare and ensure they hit every mark, some fall somewhere in the middle…
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Why I Stopped Failing Students – and How You Can, Too
January 29, 2021 When I started teaching in 2007, I was the hard teacher that had no issues failing a child that wouldn’t work or didn’t complete all their work. It took me about ten years of teaching to realize that, at least through middle school, it was a pointless standard to uphold and I…
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Life and Teaching – Reflecting on 2020
Sonya Barnes December 24, 2020 I haven’t written in a while. So much craziness has happened in my life this year, and most has nothing to do with Covid-19. My oldest son graduated college, transitioned into a new career field, and is looking to move out on his on now with his friends. My…
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Eating the Frog – A Taste of a Teacher’s World
By Sonya Barnes 4/4/2020 I’d love to hear what your frog is! Comment below or join me on social media: Facebook join the group Addicted to Teaching or Twitter follow me at AddictedtoTeac1. Don’t forget to like this article and let me know you like it so I will keep them coming! There is a…
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How to Live Off of a Teacher’s Salary
(or any other career you are in that is NOT about the money) September 29, 2019 If you pay attention to education at all, you’ve probably heard that teachers are not paid a fair wage for the job that they do, and I’m not here to get into the politics, taxes and arguments on it….
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Ten Social Superpowers To Teach Our Kids
September 22, 2019 Kids these days catch a lot of flak for how easy they have it compared to prior generations. If you’ve spent even an hour in the presence of a kid recently, you will realize that they handle a lot, and most of them do it surprisingly well. They have had so much…
