🍎 Kindergarten teacher 💜💛University of Northern Iowa alum 📚MA: Morningside

Fort Dodge, IA
Joined December 2014
Me: I see you wrote 6+8=14, how did you figure that out? S: I added. Me: What did you add? S: The 6 and 8. Me: How did you add them? S: I put them together. Me: What did you do first? S: I took 2 from the 6, put it with the 8 to make 10, then 10 and the leftover 4 is 14.
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Coming back to school from maternity leave means making @responsiveclass hopes & dreams a priority. Next up: making rules as a class. @kindersmorgie thanks for the predictable chart idea!
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Shout out to @KateSimp1218 & @loots_rachel for validating our students and teachers need to make time to slow down. We must take care of ourselves.. we can’t pour from an empty cup. #SEL
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Emily Winninger retweeted
Have a student you're struggling with? Try the 'two-by-ten' strategy: For two minutes each day, 10 days in a row, have a personal conversation with the #student about anything the student is interested in. Wonderfully simple and wildly effective. #edchat #education
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If you never want to sleep again... have a baby
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Back to school - thank you for the laughs & getting us as mentally ready for the new school year! @ToddWhitaker @FDCSD
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Here we go... Planning for the beginning of the year! Relationships are crucial! #iteachkinder @responsiveclass
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Saturday night catching up podcast “We want to teach kids that making mistakes is good..it’s fine” @BrianMendler - I appreciate your passion & opinions so we can all get better
2 FD educators sharing various strategies to help our second language learners @FDCSD #CGI2019
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These are intentional ways we can share knowledge in our classroom @TracyZager
Turn talking is different than rough draft talk — classrooms should include a lot of rough draft talk. Both students have status and contributions! @TracyZager
Excited to start “how many” and “which one doesn’t belong” next school year in kindergarten... thanks @Trianglemancsd! #CGI2019
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Emily Winninger retweeted
Such an inspiring morning presentation from @DrTynesCurry to push us to look past the behavior and to see the brilliance in the child. #cgi2019
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@DrTynesCurry had 3 goals for her Ss at the beginning of the year: 1) Find their voice 2) Discover their purpose 3) Rewrite their narrative #CGIMath #CGI2019
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A conversation about monkey bars evolves into a math conversation.. numbers are everywhere! @CarrythZero @Angelaturrou
I’m a 27 year old teacher, and I am still refreshing my twitter account to see if school is cancelled. @SuptUlrich
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I was in a rut of giving out story problem after story problem. Decided to step out of my comfort box and try a 3 act task. Great mathematical conversations about a real life situation! Shark bait @gfletchy
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Huge shout out to @a11iemery for helping me redo my word wall. Can’t wait to introduce more words to help ELLs make connections in math (students saw the M & N mix up) 😂