Super thankful tonight to be part of
@USAA
’s
@Honeywell_Home
Lyric leak pilot program. It saved us a LOT of heartache today after an inspector left the washer drain loose this week. Phew!
I am gladly saying goodbye to 2017. Personally, it was my healthiest year since 2008. 3 5ks accomplished! Socially it was a year of heartbreak as I watched our country elevate sexual misconduct, racism and God as a politician. Looking forward to new beginnings in 2018!
Critical thinking only begins in the face of perceived need. Recognizing the NEED to think precedes all thinking. -Shelagh Gallagher
#aagt
#musdgem
#brightstart
#redforedaz
These are the totals of my spending in 2017 and 2018 on Teacherspayteachers for supplements and curriculum for my classroom. A total of $389.56. This doesn't include the Amazon orders which that arrive almost weekly. I love my job, but AZ can do better!
Think about it Thursday: One way we responded to reading in distance kinder last week was renaming our Zoom selves to characters in a book we'd read and then playacting/retelling the story together in small groups.
#innovatingplay
#kinderchat
#1stchat
#2ndchat
My 15yo daughter just told me I was “tired and overthinky” and scolded me into bed. She’s exactly right. Clearly my parenting job here is done. She is now the adult in this relationship.
#rolereversal
#MUSDcongrats
Martha Bishop Twin Peaks K-8 Kindergarten Teacher, awarded 2022 AZ Science Teachers Assoc. Elementary Teacher of the Year. “Ms. Bishop makes science learning come alive for her young kindergarten students - Her creativity & excitement shine through!”
#maranaschools
Good morning! I’m Martha and I teach kinder in southern Arizona. I’m excited to have our house cleaned this morning. I’m so spoiled! Also excited the chat is back!
#InnovatingPlay
“A teacher’s legacy is not what they do, but what their students do.” Especially poignant as I sit next to our newest kinder teacher who was my 4th grade student. <3
#innovatemusd
@pernilleripp
I wish it was better. Love my students but their needs exceed my time and ability to address. That’s exhausting. And the district and admin demands and meetings are off the charts excessive. Just let me teach! I’m halfway decent at it when I have time to plan and reflect!
#MEAD2021
TIL that
@azpublicmedia
is offering AZ kids At-Home Learning programming on their TVs based on state standards. What?!? I can't wait to share this with my distance learning parents. Not replacement for creative play, but WAY better than YouTube 8hrs/day.
Enjoyed storytelling with balloons and change over time graphs today. We drew graphs to illustrate stories of balloons inflating, then looked at graphs to “read” one another’s stories. This was universally applicable in K12 classrooms!
@WatersCenterST
@teach325
#ASTAsymposium2021
I am so thankful that this DNC has reminded me of how many kind, amazing, and smart leaders remain in our country. It’s been so easy to lose faith. Thank you to those who lead in service at the national level and local, government and otherwise. Thank you!
#BidenHarris
Thanks to Gordon at the
@RenHotels
in downtown Phoenix for welcoming 6 hot and tired teachers, allowing us to use the bathroom and offering us water and encouragement.
#Redfored
!
A1 Invest lots of time for coached free play and learning one another’s names. Just wrapped week 5 of kinder and kids needed lots of social skills practice due to not attending preschool.
#InnovatingPlay
@drdonsdizon
Thank you! I am an oncology clinical trial patient and I look at those results and see myself in them! I am so blessed to be counted in positive results, but I am more than a number! Science AND people! Science FOR people!
Birthdays are a little odd since my cancer diagnosis. Part triumph, part survivors guilt. Always lots of reflection. I am 39 today (15 or 17 according to my kindergarteners.) I was…
Today I was quoted in an
@NPR
article and now can die happy. I was also told it was unprofessional and an abuse of my influence as a teacher. Crazy day!
On the 100th day of kindergarten, your teacher is 100 years old and leads you in a dance party. My old lady dance moves are ON. POINT. If I do say so myself.
#iteachkinder
#distancelearning
#maranausd
My 95 year old Grandma has been without
@CenturyLink
phone service since May 25. No one show for the scheduled service appointment yesterday. Website says sorry we missed your appt. Virtual agent says no appointment found. No access to 911 for this long is unacceptable.
@ElegantLeopard
@melissajhogan
This. Absolutely. I have wrestled with God and it didn’t involve gentle and polite language on my end. And guess what? God still spoke to me. And loves me.
On the couch with back spasms due to the stress of the past week. It’s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. But some weeks are like that, even in Australia. My gratitude to
#JudithViorst
who taught me that it will get better.
#judithviorst
#iteach
#distancelearning
Loving this quote. “the best way to reach the gifted children..design differentiated experiences that extend their creative and analytical thinking.” Quite different from what is often requested. More/harder/rote memorization isn’t what’s best!
#musdgem
#iteachkinder
#gifted
@DrAdriennePyle
I was once a first surgery for a doctor while having a portacath removed. I was never in any danger, but I was awake under the drape and it was quite traumatic listening to corrections being barked by the attending.
@LaurenGalhotra
@whatsuptucson
Because TEP is a monopoly utility company, they are required to spend a certain amount of money on community service/education/gifts. This is one thing they offer.
#BecauseOfRHE
I had permission to transform. I could fall back in love with a Jesus whose love often wasn’t reflected in the church I experienced. I could grow in my advocacy for the least of these and transform and heal my own heart. Thank you RHE.