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20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half

…20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half is free to everyone who subscribes to my mailing list. Why should you subscribe? Because there are things in my emails that will revolutionize your teaching. Since 2013, I have been sharing things that have done exactly that: ideas like the Grecian Urn, Pineapple Charts, Fisheye Teaching, Marigold Teachers, and the Single-Point Rubric. And there’s so much more coming. Every week, I send a quick email letting you know about my latest blog posts, podcast episodes, courses, and teaching products. That’s it. If you don’t know me from Eve and you…

5 Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction

…whatever has been presented it is discussed in the small groups and I pick a stick with a number and the person with that number in each group shares out the group’s findings. This has accountability built in while allowing all voices to be heard. I prefer this to putting someone on the spot with cold calling. I so enjoy your website and appreciate your articles and information. Still love the Marigold article and I have my own marigold shirt. Tina Casibang Thank you thank you thank you! I will be using a couple of these strategies on Monday with…

Rewrite the Story You Tell Yourself About Teaching

…changed from “My students are lazy,” to “My students aren’t engaged in their reading and writing. Here’s what I can do. I can come to school every day, loving them, smiling, having a sense of humor, and continuing to hold high expectations with highly engaging lessons.” These are the things you can control that you can feel good about as you finish up the year. Seeking support from some marigolds (see our blog Find Your Marigold: One Essential Rule for New Teachers) and checking out the instructional blogs on our site may inspire some new ideas for increasing student engagement….

Lessons in Personhood: 10 Ways to Truly Lead in Your Classroom

…wonderful article. I can’t wait to share it! Rebecca Najor I have absolutely loved reading your blog posts, and have been so inspired by your ideas, thoughts on education and variety of resources. You had me at “Find your Marigold” – printed it and purchased the mugs for my daughter’s first year teaching; she also found it to be very inspiring! Now this here: “But also be: To truly lead is to pay attention to who we are in the downtime, in the margins. To help them become the best people they are capable of becoming, we must first be…

Can-Do Descriptors: A Free Tool for ESL Differentiation

…down and not putting the same expectations on them. For a research report, we could ask students to write in their home language or we should consider differentiating the assessment in a way that all students can still show understanding. Regardless of language, I want to know if my students can do more than just ‘label pictures’, if that makes sense! I wrote a blogpost about what I mean here: http://languageandliteracyforlearning.blogspot.com/2016/01/dont-dumb-it-down-deep-learning-with.html What are your thoughts on this? Marcelle Houterman ps. I forgot to mention that my absolute favourite article you wrote was the one about finding your Marigold! That term…

Building Relationships with Students Through Books

Christopher Miller Hi Shelby, congratulations! You found a Marigold, and your students are the winners! My coteacher and I do what you do: we put YAF all over the room. We let kids take them, and they don’t even have to give them back! (Most do, however.) We tell them that books are for sharing, so they can give them to a friend if they want. For popular reads like Shusterman’s Unwind series and his Skinjacker series, we buy them on Amazon, usually for a penny. That’s 3 or 4 dollars with shipping. (Since we aren’t brand-new teachers, we can…

The Danger of Teacher Nostalgia

…team’s conversations. I am a first year teacher and I am surrounded by negativity everyday that sounds like all that you have written here. I can’t help but agree with my coworkers because of the experiences I have had with my students this past year, but at the same time I didn’t want it to be that way. Your post has inspired me to make the change I have been wanting to to get away from my negative thoughts and heart for next year’s students (who are apparently worse than this year’s). I have already read your Marigold article a…

Dealing with Undeserved Blame

…matter with utmost care. Nipuna Jain liked the content. Would like to understand how to deal with people at work who backbite and are kind of jealous with your position, try to let you down always. SARAVANAKUMAR R Amazing article. Very helpful to teachers. Debbie Sachs I’m not sure if these articles are specific to what you might be looking for, but take a look and see what you think: The Principal’s Pet: A Cautionary Tale and Find Your Marigold: The One Essential Rule for New Teachers (this is still great for all teachers). Kanchan Karjatkar We need to handle…

When a Student Hates You

…seek out a marigold! 14year teacher Yes she should have talked directly to Amy, but that didn’t happen. Lesson learne. Second, all she had was information from her friends about Amy’s 21 year old boyfriend. Hearsay. Reports can’t be made on hearsay (I was a child advocate for years before starting my teaching career). More information was needed before reporting. Had the accusations been false then there is a whole other can of worms with the parents that just got opened. Sukhbir I think your article was very brave and you have shown you are determined that you have learned…