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Planting a Seed
After a long wait, (over 5 years!) the entry way in front of our home is finally getting a face-lift. When we moved into our home with our two teenage sons, it looked very different from how it does...
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Mentoring Matters:Will You Take Up the Challenge?
Mentoring matters. It matters, because it offers acceptance, guidance, instructional support, hope, and optimism to teachers — and particularly for new teachers. The act of mentoring is a part of the...
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Be Inspiring with @eliza_peterson at #ntchat
Why be a teacher? So you can be inspiring! We all remember that one teacher who made a difference in our life. Maybe it was your fifth grade teacher, your coach or your piano instructor. Maybe...
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Using Social Media to Connect and Collaborate
I’m excited to see how harnessing the power of social media to connect and collaborate can support educators as they seek to improve their practice. Recently, I participated with education colleagues...
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Learning That Less is More
Do you ever wonder where that term “less is more” comes from? Many people think that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the founders of the modern architectural movement was the first to use it....
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Links to Inspire: This Week’s Favorites
{At the close of each week, I plan to publish five favorite links, that I hope will inspire. Enjoy!} Blogger to encourage, Amy Mayer…I love her posts! Important read on condition of education in...
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Links to Inspire: This Week’s Favorites
{At the close of each week, I publish some favorite links, that I hope will inspire. Enjoy!} Blogger to Encourage: Bill Selak He’s knowledgeable, talented and always willing to support others....
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Breakaway Monday
Me and my Mentor Every Monday, I tweet out the hashtag #MentoringMonday. I like the idea of taking at least one day a week to encourage my large network of educators to reach out and support a new...
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Read With Me: 5 Tips to Foster a Love for #Reading
“Read along with me: the best is yet to be.” – Lisa Dabbs (adapted from Robert Browning) When I first became a teacher, I was excited to begin sharing the love of reading with my students. I grew up...
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Join my #ntchat Class on Remind!
The New Teacher Chat mentoring message started as a weekly chat on Twitter on May 5, 2010. The chat is practitioner focused to support new and pre-service educators world wide to receive resources and...
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Ditch the Resolutions and Do the Word! #onelittleword
When I was a classroom teacher I was easily pulled in many directions and got caught up in way too many projects. In my eagerness to serve, I frequently volunteered to be on this committee and to chair...
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New-Teacher Academy 2015 on #ntchat: Working with Parents
In January of 2012, as a resident blogger at Edutopia, I had the privilege of running a five-part series on my Edutopia blog called the New Teacher Academy. It included key concepts that new and...
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Let’s Connect and Share! I Choose to Use @remindHQ
I love to learn and connect with others to do it! It’s a part of who I am and how I was made, and I want to encourage others to do the same. In May of 2010 the New Teacher Chat mentoring message...
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5 Tips for New Teachers to Be-come Connected Educators #ce15
(Originally posted in August 2012, updated for October 2015.)This month, the U.S. Department of Education kicked off Connected Educator Month, with engaging keynotes, panel discussions, book chats,...
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Join the H&R Block Budget Challenge–Let’s do it in 2016!
Recently, H&R Block approached me with this opportunity to once again share their budget challenge. I was happy to do so, as we enter 2016. It’s exciting to see that they are offering the chance...
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New Teachers: Are You Using Periscope? #ntchat
Last year I began to use Periscope and I shared a post about that here. I have since been using it so much more. I’ve also been studying some big time scoper’s and want to see how often new and...
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Twenty Tips for Success for New Teachers #ntchat
(Me and my pre-service teachers.) I love to learn and grow and this post is meant to be a support to those of you new to the teaching profession. It’s also meant to be a way for me to collaborate with...
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New Teacher Chat: We’re Back with an #ntchat Re-Boot on #FlipGrid
Teaching is hard. As a former school principal, working 19 years in the field I saw the struggle first hand that my new teachers experienced. As prepared as they were, with classroom pedagogy and...
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How The Morning Meeting Can Transform Classroom Culture
This post originally appeared as an ongoing series on EdweekTeacher.org The New Teacher Chat: Advice, Tips, and Support Dear Christine and Friends, When I read your post on how you put yourself in the...
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Ditch the Resolutions and Do the Word! #onelittleword
When I was a classroom teacher I was easily pulled in many directions and got caught up in way too many projects. In my eagerness to serve, I frequently volunteered to be on this committee and to chair...
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