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Have you heard of TpT ClassFund? Read on for an explanation, links for more info, and a time-sensitive offer. Find out more HERE TpT ClassFund is a new program from TeachersPayTeachers that gives people an easy way to purchase TpT resources for educators. There are other online programs
Setting up my classroom for a new school year was nothing compared to getting my house in order for the visitors I had over the 4th of July weekend! Three months ago, I received an email from the Japanese exchange student, Naomi, that my family had hosted for a year
Do your students feel like the school year is over once they’ve finished taking their annual standardized English, math, and science tests? Mine sure did! But there was still a good 2 months left in the year and a lot of learning can and should take place during that time.
Cinco de Mayo and the start of Ramadan in the U.S. fall on the same day this year, May 5th. That provides educators with a great opportunity to teach about tolerance, understanding, immigration, and the benefits of diversity in America! Photo from Flickr Teaching Tolerance has this short
If you don’t know who Greta Thunberg is, chances are your more environmentally-aware students do. She’s the Swedish teenager who started the worldwide movement of students striking on Fridays to address the impact of climate change. You can read more about her HERE. Below are 8 websites that will help
I’ve been thinking, during Women’s History Month this year, about two girls who were my students at different times of my public school teaching career. Both were survivors of sexual violence. The first girl was 12 years old and her mother’s boyfriend had raped her; she became pregnant and had
For those of you who have participated in the monthly #ELLEdTech Twitter chats, I would like to inform you that Laurah and I are taking some time off from co-hosting them. FYI: No more #ELLEdTech chats until further notice; source: The ESL Nexus We both were too busy to do
Have you ever run out of time when teaching a class? Have you ever wished you had more time in the day to get all your lesson planning and photocopying done? Does time seem to pass you by because you’re stuck inside grading papers? Well, don’t despair! TeachersPayTeachers is about
Me learning to use an Instant Pot is like my students learning to use English. I bought an Instant Pot during the cyber sale over Thanksgiving weekend last year and as I went through the process ofmfiguring out how to use it, I was reminded of the stages of language
What is the message that is given to students when a Social Studies course on World Geography has textbooks for Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and North America but not for Africa or Latin America? That was the situation I found myself in when I had to teach that subject
I know I’m not alone in saying I hated taking standardized tests. The pressure of having to finish within a proscribed time period combined with not knowing precisely what would be on the test generated a high level of anxiety. And to top it off, it often took weeks before
(This post has been updated to show the dates of the holidays in 2025.) January 1st is New Year’s Day throughout the world that uses the Christian Gregorian calendar. But many religions and cultures celebrate the New Year on other days. Below is a chart showing New Year celebrations for
