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Education Around the World: New Zealand

Staying in the Southern hemisphere this month, I am delighted to present Olivia, from TpT store  Olivia Walker, as January’s guest blogger in my Education Around the World series. Olivia is a teacher at a public school in a semi-rural area of New Zealand. Map of New Zealand; source: The

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Write Happy New Year in Chinese Quickly and Easily!

(This post has been updated for 2023.) Happy Year of the Rabbit!  Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it’s known in China, begins soon and traditionally lasts for 15 days.  Rabbits are kind, popular, and artistically talented.  However, they can also be cautious, temperamental, and uncaring. Source: The ESL

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Who Couldn’t Use a Little More Kindness and Democracy?

I hope you have found some great resources this past weekend onTeachersPayTeachers using the #KindnessNation and #WeHoldTheseTruths hashtags.  In my opinion, there’s no such thing as being too empathetic or knowing too much about how the U.S government works!  So in that spirit, I’d like to showcase a few of

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Give Peace…and Kindness…and Democracy a Chance

Eight years ago I got permission from my principal to watch the first African-American president in U.S. history take the oath of office, instead of doing recess duty out on the school playground.  I supervised a slew of middle school students in my classroom who also wanted to see history

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Welcome 2017!

Just want to wish you a wonderful 2017!  May your students be appropriately inquisitive and be active but well-behaved participants in your class.  May all your administrators give you all the support and materials you need whenever you need it.  May all your meetings go quickly and uneventfully, all your

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Education Around the World: Australia

It’s been a while since I featured a guest blogger writing about education in another country but maybe we can just pretend it’s taken so long since today’s post is about Australia!   Map of Australia; The CIA World Factbook I’d like to introduce Jade from TpT store Priceless in Prep,

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8 Assumptions about English Language Learners

There are lots of myths and assumptions about working with English Language Learners.  How much do you really know?  Let’s take a quiz and find out! Decide whether each of the 8 common assumptions in the list below is True or False. 1) Using English all the time at home

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Use 21st Century Technology to Teach about the Holidays

As someone who likes learning history and reading historical fiction, I totally enjoyed using technology to teach ancient and world history to my students.  What better way to get kids interested in learning about what happened more than 2,000 years than by using 21st century technology to keep them engaged? 

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How To Easily Teach About Thanksgiving When You Teach Math

My most memorable mealis every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; thesweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother’s Southern heritage;the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife’s Midwestern roots; theCampbell’s green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/turkey.html?vm=l If you’re a regular ed

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How to Keep ELL Families Informed about School

Regardless of whether you’ve just finished your first quarter parent conferences or they are coming up soon, keeping families informed about how their children are doing is of paramount importance to students’ success in school.  I’ve written before about why I so enjoyed working with the parents of my English

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