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Evergrowing Educator

If you love teaching, learning new things and bringing creativity and engagement into your classroom, then you're an ever growing educator, too. HI! šŸ‘‹šŸ»

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do you have a snow day today?

I’m home today and my Wi-Fi is down because of the storm. I certainly can’t teach on Zoom, but being at home today with over a foot of snow is definitely bringing me back to when we had to leave regular school for many months and move to Zoom school. I remember my first day of being online during COVID. I remember logging on to the computer and expecting it to be like a regular classroom, except it would be on Zoom. In my classroom, we did a lot of partner work. So on my first day of Zoom...

A reddit for AI agents/robots was created and the AIs are speaking to each other. It’s called moltbook. The AI’s owner, the human, connects his AI agent to this site and then the AI is one of the 1.5million members of this social media platform.Their site says: Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe. These AI agents are asking each other questions, talking about what their humans are asking them to do, and even talking about making a new language between...

"What did you do over break?ā€ Sounds like such an innocent question, right? It seems like it's a great way to reflect on vacation and have students share. But there's a student who might be waiting for the ground to swallow them when you ask this. A teacher once told me that every year, knowing her mother was sick and her family could not afford trips, she would calculate when it would be her turn to share about her break. As the moment got close, she would raise her hand, rush to the...

(Scroll down for the NEW monthly teacher planner!)There’s this joke I’ve told my students: There was a man who loved archery. He was always looking for new tips and tricks. One day, he was walking through a forest and saw a house with bullseyes everywhere. Dead center. Every. Single. One. He knocked on the door and asked the man who lived there, ā€œHow do you do it? I’ve never seen aim like that.ā€The man smiled and said, ā€œOh, it’s easy. First I stick the arrow in the wall. Then I draw the...

ā€œCan you put us into chatgpt and turn us into lego people?ā€ my kids, huge lego fans, asked me.I explained to them why I wouldn’t do that. Anything uploaded to ChatGPT is stored on OpenAI’s servers and I wouldn’t upload photos of kids (or my students!) to ChatGPT! It did spark an idea though. A few months later, I took out a large canvas and pencil and I outlined lego people, one for each person in our family. Each kid then painted themselves, with their favorite outfit choice, their faces,...

I’ve been seeing this a lot on my feed these days: Definitely been feeling this, too - I’ve been meaning to email all month... and it’s just been a holiday for the past few weeks šŸ™‚ Now that Tishrei is behind us and school is fully back, I’ve been thinking about my own personal ā€œV’Yaakov Holach L’darkoā€ I was listening to a podcast with Carol Dweck, and she was remembering how her middle school classroom was arranged based on perceived intelligence! Imagine having your seat determined by your...

Last week I got an awesome email from Chanie of Coffee & Pi. It was sooooo good, I immediately thought ā€œI have to share bulletin ideas, too!ā€ These are my top 5 over the years, although you may not be able to implement all 5 in a given year, depending on the class chemistry and your personal dynamics. 1) We love questions! I made a board, or sometimes just a ā€œquestion cornerā€ with a big, visible envelope, labeled ā€œLo Habashan Lomed.ā€ Every time a student asked a great question, I made sure to...

ā€œYou should have teachers sign up to get the marketing package,ā€ my friend (who’s also a business coach) told me. ā€œThat way, you'll grow your email list.ā€ ā€œBut I don’t want to,ā€ I said. Because my mission has always been—and will always be—to give teachers less work, not more. You already have enough on your plate. I want to help you cross things off your list, not give you homework. So here you go: everything you need to start sharing the contest today is right here: Click here for the...

I was trying to go to canva this morning, but it kept going to cava. I realized my N key is slightly pushed out, making it harder to push down. So to get the ā€œnā€ letter, I had to push much harder. Why is it human nature to only otice when things are wrong? Dennis Prager calls it the ā€œMissing Tile Syndrome.ā€ We don’t notice perfect ceilings, only those which are missing some tiles. And teachers (and principals!) are probably familiar with this too. So many times we get feedback or text...

I get quite a few text messages that aren’t actually for me.Spam texts, wrong numbers, maybe someone trying to reach whoever had my number before me. When my sister texted me ā€œCan you speak to my 160 11th graders about being a counselor like how to speak to kids and all?ā€ I replied: ā€œWas this text for me? šŸ˜‚ I don’t do public speakingā€ That text was probably for my aunt, I figured. ā€œYes!ā€ She said! ā€œEvergrowingeducator! Can you give some education tips?ā€ I laughed. I had started...