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Toilet training in a day--in LESS than a day--the book says. Follow these simple steps and you're diaper-free, the book says. Here are statistics on why this is better than strapping the kid to the toilet all day. Here is what you need to go buy...
So I had a few great ideas at the beginning of the school year to improve instruction: choice, differentiation, and project-based learning. These are supposedly research-supported practices, so I set my Spanish I and II classes up to use a little of...
Curriculum overhauls: What to DO? - 156 days ago
I have intricately styled an entire Spanish I curriculum based on self-directed learning. (Please note: I started this endeavor BEFORE mt principal sent us the e-mail with this link .) Also, I cut out tests entirely. Well, I cut out...
Events so far -- Day 3 - 497 days ago
Pre-Spanish survey - No copier, so wrote questions on the little whiteboards to be answered the first day in 1st, 2nd, 3rd periods. - Secretary got one class worth of copies for me, so 6th answered on their own paper still, 7th got the real...
The first First Day - 499 days ago
Students spent almost their entire first day in the cafeteria--except lunch.Although after sending the short bus (you do not reserve a long bus, you donot get one) out four times to get our student body through the lunch lineat the local separate school..


