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Ok so I know I didn’t blog last week! My bad!  What we did last week was that my fifth graders were given third grade TEKS (our state standards) by…

Man what a great week! So on Monday I wanted to do something different.  Our After School program has had archery equipment for a while, and I am the certified…

So this week was finally the time.  The time for our state standardized test (or STAAR). So Monday we had a last minute review where I mainly just talked with…

First off I have to say I work with some pretty incredible people.  So I heard about the whole EdCamp idea last year when I attended EdCampDallas.  I fell in…

So, yes I know, the title to this post is very negative.  But it’s very true.  STAAR (or the state-exam for Texas) is crazy.  Now, honestly I’m all for testing…

So last week was my Spring Break.  Instead of enjoying my Spring Break relaxing like most people, I spent my Spring Break traveling to San Diego, California. In about Early…

This week has been the best week of my professional career.  I have never had as much fun or been as impressed with my students as I was this week!!…

This week was fun! On Monday we went over the benchmark that we had taken from the previous week.  After adjusting the scores to match the pass rates of the…

So life has been extra crazy lately and I have been trying desperately to update this blog!  Whew!  So here goes…. Last week was….interesting… Monday we didn’t have school.  On…

Let me preface this post by saying that I was only at my campus on Monday, because Tuesday through Friday I was at TCEA (my state’s Technology Conference) and Saturday…

Another amazing week.  The week started out with some pretty incredible Skype activities (which you can read about in my previous post). In addition to Skyping with a class from…

Today was such an “epic” day in our class using Skype that I couldn’t wait til the end of the week to Blog about it! http://education.skype.com is a website I’ve…