embrace the almost
*this blog post is also on my new blog site at www.chelseacleveland.com* When you get discouraged and become frustrated, become more involved in other activities and move your focus […]
Journey Reflections
learning over lunch
Happy Wednesday! Today I have the pleasure of sitting in on a colleague’s “Lunch ‘n Learn” around Visual Aids for Executive Functioning in the primary grades. So here I am…live […]
quick glance back…
It’s spring…the snow has melted and the birds can be heard singing and chatting through the trees. Spring is a time of change, growth, and new beginnings…and as the title […]
don’t (or do not) be a perfectionist!
I’ve begun my first Ampeduca course: Step-by Step Learning About Blogging for your Students. I chose this as my first course, because as much as I’ve been blogging about my […]
(uni)cycle: getting started
What do you do, when you don’t know what to do? This phrase was always a motivator for me to push the importance of problem solving with my students. Still…I […]
feeling sketchy?
What is Sketchnoting? This is today’s topic on my learning journey with my cohort the DocuMentors with our in-house visit with Silvia Tolisano. Is drawing and doodling a story with […]
literacy and …”fill in the blank”
Why fill in the blank? Because learning and understanding that literacy is made up of a multitude of skills, aptitudes and is ever changing and fluid within its own definition […]
finger on my pulse
This year my personal PGP objective (Professional Growth Plan) is “To develop a prototype for documentation of learning for word problems in Middle School that allows each student to develop […]
sticks and shovels
I was out on recess supervision yesterday and I noticed something that made me think a little outside the box. I wondered about why and why not. Shovels. As the […]
when frogs, fairies, and dragons play together…
…LEARNING HAPPENS! I recently conducted mini problem solving workshops with my middle school students, that I also extended to grades four and five in my role as the school’s Math Coach. […]