Tough Mudder for Brains

Last week, I registered for my first ever Tough Mudder Challenge (Yikes!), and I have been working my buns off training for it. Even though it is in June, I started a workout schedule in January. It has been an incredible experience watching my muscles grow and the workouts get easier with every passing day.…

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I love sandwiches, but….

Giving feedback can be really difficult, especially when you are a perfectionist (like me). I will openly admit to wanting to nit-pick all of my students' work, even though I knew it would be unfair to them and that it would take me hours to get through me grading. Thankfully, I know the sandwich method.…

SMARTER Goal Revisted

Alright. Time to revist my SMARTER goal that I set a few weeks ago. As I am sure you have noticed, I have been not meeting it. I planned on posting once a week, hopefully every Monday, but I have been struggling to keep that going, mostly because I want to make exciting and useful…

Going Above and Beyond

Orignially Posted on June 24, 2017 https://triestoteach.wordpress.com/ I was given this incredible curriculum to use for my 6th grade ELA class this summer. It is one of the go to frameworks used in New York. I love the layout and the flawless way it incorporates the CCSS into fun activities without putting focus on the…

SMARTER Goals

So apparently I am quite awful at keeping up with a blog, but I would like to change that. In fact, I am going to use my new goal of blogging once a week as an excuse to write a post about SMARTER Goals. I have seen many different variations on what SMARTER stands for,…