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PRO TIP: Use table covers instead of butcher paper for your bulletin boards! 😍. —- I’ve had mine up for multiple years with no fading, and the colors and prints are so vibrant and fun! 🎉 They’re also super cheap (Walmart has 3 packs for $2.49.) —- ANOTHER PRO TIP: I use these lime green ones as a portable green screen using my @doinkapps! 🙌🏼 I just hang it on my whiteboard or in the hallway when we do a special project! —- What about you? Any “easy win” decor tips you have? ⤵️

Social 👏🏻 Studies 👏🏻 Is 👏🏻 Important 👏🏻. And I’m not talking about memorizing capitals. —- In her @getyourteachon session, @apron_education taught us about the power of Social Studies in the classroom and about the harm no or poor Social Studies instruction can do to our diverse student population. 🌎 —- Then, LaNesha suggested this book. Only a few pages in and I’m hooked. 💪🏼 The author takes a look at 12 different history texts and analyzed what injustices traditional history education does for students in our nation. 📚 Our students not only deserve to feel represented in history but NEED to. At GYTO, she told us that “the antidote for feel good history is NOT feel bad history but *honest* and *inclusive* history.” —- Social Studies is so much more than memorizing capitals and “yay America” stories. 🇺🇸 And as a self-contained teacher, TRUST ME, I feel you on the “but I don’t have time for it!” or “there’s no curriculum!” 🙈 I’ve said it a million times myself. But as I sit down to create my schedule for next year, you better believe I will be finding time to incorporate true, valuable SS concepts in my classroom. 🙌🏼 —- Right now, I do two map skill warm-ups each morning (check out my TPT) and try to fit in other concepts when possible. Starting in August, you better believe REAL SS instruction will be happening. 📝. —- What does Social Studies look like in your room? ⤵️

It’s official: I’m doNUTS about teaching. 🍩🤓 (Can I write for Hallmark yet?) —- GYTO has been an incredible experience. I feel so inspired and have so many tangible takeaways I’m implementing in August. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 However, if you want the realness, check out my story. Like any conference, I evaluate everything I hear and take what I want and need for my own teaching philosophy and students. 💡 (Shoutout to @thecolorfulteacher to remind me to do that recently!) —- TL;DR: I recommend going to a GYTO and not just relying on photos and hyped up videos of it to tell the whole story of this conference. ✨ It has changed me—two times—for the better as an educator, and I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!

Moral of this picture: talk to strangers on Instagram. They just may become one of your closest friends. 💕 —- Day 2 of #GetYourTeachOn is already incredible. If y’all can’t think of a place where you can be positive, inspired, yet entirely exhausted in just a few hours, allow me to show you one. 💚

We’re heeeere! 🎉 Say hi if you see me! So ready to get these next four days started! @getyourteachon

Here’s your daily reminder that it’s okay to put the to-do list aside for a little while. ☀️💕 —- My summer has its crazy busy moments, especially when I leave for #GetYourTeachOn SUNDAY! 🎉 But naturally I spent my “me time” still talking about it at the pool with @alattelearning. 🤷🏻‍♀️ —- What’s your favorite way to take time for YOU this summer? ⤵️

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