It's Friday! It's Friday! What do you say? Hip Hip Hurray!!!! But seriously. THANK YOU Friday for showing up this morning(Thursday felt like it was going to go on forever). This Friday is extra sweet because means that it is Spring Break time. Woot! I am going to announce the winner of my 1,000 IG followers and new blog design giveaway at the end of this post. I feel like this is one big IG post since many of these pictures made it up over on my account this week. Special thanks to Doodle Bugs Teaching for hosting the weekly Five for Friday event. 2014 has brought lots of changes to my life, and it is only March(yikes). One of the changes has been eating better. To make a long story short- I was diagnosed with Graves' disease when I was a freshman in high school. My thyroid was working so hard that it caused me heart problems, tremors, extreme fatigue, etc. I dealt with it for 4 years, and then had my thyroid taken out when I was a freshman ...
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Rocking Our Data
It seems like one of the big buzz words in education right now is DATA. The four letter word has had a lot of impact in the educational community recently. In my classroom, I use data in many ways. It tracks student growth and progress, drives my instruction, helps me individualize learning experiences, and simplifies my student grouping. There is so much data out that there it can become TOO much. But, my school is using data in a positive way to help us realize our classroom strengths and weaknesses as well as help us set student learning goals. Our district participates in Discovery Education's Think Link testing. These tests are are used to help us track what standards our students have or have not mastered. We assess our students, using this assessment tool, three times a year. There are four levels- level one meaning little to no mastery on a skill, level two shows some mastery, level three shows on grade level comprehension, and level four represents ...
