My thoughts on teaching young minds with purpose and passion! Monday, August 3, 2015. A few short weeks, and it will be time. Time for schedules, lessons, organizing, preparing, decorating, planning. and so on! But most importantly, it will be time for building relationships, both old and new. So, we spent a lot of time with literature.

Views are my own and evolve with personal reflections as a Middle School Principal and former Director of Special Education, K-12. Saturday, August 15, 2015. Back to School Pep Talk. Many of them have already been in to prepare classrooms, finish up summer curriculum, and provide input into some district committee work. Earlier this summer, I read an awesome piece by Kari Kampakis.

Sunday, August 16, 2015. The First Two Days of School. We started school last Thursday. I love starting school that way. I dared and I did. No syllabus today and not again tomorrow. It may be Monday at the earliest. I led an activity with staff.

Sharing thoughts and experiences with technology integration in the elementary classroom. Tuesday, January 10, 2017. One of the ways we focus on everyday kindness is discovering ways to lift up others, making them smile, changing their perspective. As teachers, we do this in simple ways. We greet our students at the door by name. We share a shout-out of praise for a job well done. We make a point to acknowledge ways our students are nice to others and how they help in the classroom. The students came up .