Each summer my husband and I pick a book out for each other that we have to read. It’s a fun little tradition we have done every year we’ve been together (read HERE for information about our past summer book swaps). It really forces us out of our traditional literary comfort zone and provides common ground for [...]
Teacher Tips: Surviving Summer
I know many teachers have second (or third) jobs and it's pretty disgusting that, as incredibly important public professionals, many need those jobs just to survive (but that's a whole 'nother blog post). Will & I don't *really* have second jobs (besides things like tutoring & coaching) and I would love to see if we [...]
2019 Summer Round Up: Week 1
So it's debatable if you can call this week 1 of our summer considering we had our last half day with students the Tuesday after Memorial Day & teacher work days on Thursday and Friday...but let's be honest teacher work days feel like summer to me! I thought this would be a nice way to [...]
Student Series! Joan of Arc
“I am not afraid. I was born to do this." -Joan of Arc Today is the fest day of Joan of Arc & I (amazingly) found this Student Series! blog post on her! 🙂 And it is fittingly during the week of Memorial Day in which we honor those military personnel who gave their lives for [...]
AP World History Unit Resources
Hello AP World History teachers! So if you are on the AP World Facebook you probably saw that I posted on there some ideas for new Unit pages in response to grand redesign. They will be posted in the Drive and they're available here on the blog! My idea behind this was utilizing the learning [...]
