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✏️ Templates for Teaching Quotations
Integrating quotations poses a challenge for many students. These templates are here to help. Did I mention they're FREE?
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🚌 The Joy of Teaching Siblings
Every year when I first call attendance, the question happens like clockwork: "Hey! Is so-and-so your sister?"
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📰 Student Begins Semester with Perfect Grades
*satire* In a hallway press conference, local student Bridger declared he has started the semester with perfect grades. "I did it! I have all A's! Take…
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🖥️ How Google Forms Simplifies Data Collection (for Writing)
What if you need data entry more than polished spreadsheets? What if you just bookmarked and completed your own Google Forms?
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🚌 Back to School Night
A middle school clean and awaiting students. Teachers frantically preparing. Then a family walks in an hour early.
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July 2025

🚌 Open Chalkboard: High School Poetry
Grab the chalk and leave a comment. While most textbooks go a mile wide and an inch deep, these days I’m not sure they even go that far. How many poems…
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🚌 33 Big Ideas to Start Your School Year
How do you teach with student writing? What are 13.5 evidence-based reading comprehension strategies? This post aggregates multiple lists, getting to 33…
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🖥️ Teach Computers Before AI: A Sketch
When toddlers use touchscreens in seconds, computer illiterate adults confuse button mashing for knowledge. Since schools never teach computers…
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✏️ Creative Writing Doesn't Exist
Humans speak in stories. If we spoke with subtitles, our speech would be "creative writing." Yet teaching to standards, schools pursue something else…

June 2025

✏️ How to Teach with Student Writing
What if the most relevant writing instruction were reactionary? And what if your best teaching examples waited in front of you?
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✏️ Practice Writing Rules by Breaking Them (+ FREE Template)
This rainy day activity helps reenforce writing skills while crowdsourcing future teaching examples. Did I mention it's hilarious and kids love it?
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🖥️ Google Docs for Teens. The Basics. (+ FREE Workshop)
Wish your teens understood Google Docs? Ready for a short refresher? Try this FREE workshop for navigation, keyboard shortcuts, and formatting. Did I…
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