This month, the Secondary Smorgasbord crew has organized a blog hop to coincide with an initiative proposed by Rachel Lynette of Minds in Bloom . She's truly genius at bringing the community of TpT authors together to collabo…

At the fall OMLTA Conference back in October, I presented about moving beyond the boundaries of a single app or tool in order to foster creativity, problem solving and other higher order thinking skills in our students. You can…

Bellringers for French class? But how can you do anything before all the students are arrived and settled? I think it's important to offer them some reason to get to class on time and get into learning. So I wanted to share t…

Last week, someone in an online teacher group ask me if I'd ever heard of Pinterest. I'm not normally one to toot my own horn, really, but since the question arose, I shared with her that my main Pinterest board  w as nam…

TeachersPayTeachers is recognizing the hard work that teachers do with a site-wide sale later this week. The theme is - Teachers are Heroes! This Wednesday, use the promo code "heroes" to save an extra 10% off the …

I realized I had an old blog post that somehow got corrupted or deactivated - or maybe I just never published it properly. Although I'm not totally sure what happened with the original, a buyer just asked me about the pre-rea…

Guess what? Usually TpT (Teachers Pay Teachers) just has one back to school sale, but of course people in various states start back in early August while in other states & most Canadian provinces, we go back closer to the beg…

What happens in your school when someone is absent and there is no supply teacher available to substitute teach? Some arrangements I'm familiar with... Classes are collapsed so that a few students from the teacher-less …

Right now, I'm speechless... I just watched this BEAUTIFUL video that absolutely touched my heart!  I know, I know... I am a total language and culture nerd. I believe that I'm in good company amongst those of us who…