Five Tips for New Teachers to Become Connected Educators

Five Tips for New Teachers to Become Connected Educators

  (Originally posted in August 2012, updated for October 2014.) This month, the U.S. Department of Education kicked off Connected Educator Month, with engaging keynotes, panel discussions, book chats, and more. During this month, educators in the U.S. and globally...
Join the H&R Block Budget Challenge–It’s Back for 2015!

The H&R Block Budget Challenge–Love this!

Back to school is always an exciting time filled with opportunities to learn and share with colleagues, grade level teams, and friends in your professional learning network. So when H&R Block approached me with this great opportunity to share their budget...
Join my #ntchat Class on Remind!

Join my #ntchat Class on Remind!

The New Teacher Chat mentoring message started as a weekly chat on Twitter on May 5, 2010. The chat is practitioner focused to support new and pre-service educators world wide to receive resources and mentoring to grow in their practice. I’m excited to share...
Reading in Summer Gives You Somewhere to Go

Reading in Summer Gives You Somewhere to Go

  I grew up loving to read and waited excitedly every month for the children’s literary book club order that my Dad made sure I received. As I reflect on this, I consider myself to have been fortunate that my parents knew about the power of reading and made a...