Who will Biden pick for secretary of education? Of course, being teachers, we're rather focused on Mrs.DeVos's replacement. In this episode, we discuss a few of the possible people who are on the radar to replace her.
The value of evaluating teachers is a contentious topic, especially when doing teacher evaluations during distance learning.
Our guest co-host, fellow co-worker, and single parent, Angel, joins us today.Mommy or Teacher? She helps her two elementary school-aged children during distance learning, while also wearing the seventh-grade science teacher hat.
I think distance learning is finally getting to us. We're tired. We're punchy, We talk about alcohol more than usual. Check out all our demented tales and thoughts on what is happening in classrooms today.
Minimum Day Edition 001 We are feeling swamped with back to school Covid Style. Planning lessons for 2 1/2 hour synchronous classes and 150 minutes of weekly asynchronous work is time consuming. So until we find our rhythm, we are bringing you mini...
In today’s episode, we try to stay optimistic as we talk about what we are thinking about as we get ready to start our own school year next week! What’s the latest with Covid? What are other teachers saying about returning to school? And what do...
Today we get into ways teachers can save money on travel (once travel is a "thing" again!) Never too soon to start planning! We discuss ideas for social distancing conscious travel and how to make your "safer at home" quarantine seem more vacation...
Experienced teachers know confrontation with a student or even a challenging class full of kids, is inevitable. Teachers who have the skills to deal with these situations will make it. Those that don’t will quit. The ability to use restorative...
This back to school issue is far from over and we're likely to see more issues and controversies arise as this situation continues to develop.
The fear of a bad substitute teacher taking care of your class in the event that you are absent, is enough to make sick teachers go to work sick or ask to pull out of trainings