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March 20, 2013

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 February I had gotten a notification that I was selected by the National School Board Association...

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March 8, 2013

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!!So, about a month and a half ago I had an idea.  I've always seen teachers...

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March 5, 2013

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 STAAR Test (our State Standardized Test) we ended up with having 84.7% passing!  That was...

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February 10, 2013

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 I attended my Region IV Math Conference.  You can read about my trip to those...

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February 1, 2013

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 Sweden and Olympic Gold Medalist Steve Mesler, our class was also fortunate enough to Skype with...

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January 28, 2013

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 found this year that I LOVE.  It allows teachers to find other educators or businesses who...

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January 25, 2013

We had a lot of fun this week!We were off from school on Monday, so our Flip Classroom picked back up on Tuesday.For Tuesday-Thursday we began working on Probability and Predictions.  The kids loved this lesson because I prefaced it by telling them we were...

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January 14, 2013

I had such a blast this week!The kids came back on Tuesday and I could not have been more excited.  You see, one of my New Years Resolutions was to dress more professionally at school.  BUT I still needed to have some of my personality...

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