Among so many things being in flux around this household lately, on July 10 I had my Nexplanon implant removed. After experiencing the effects of the birth control method for over a year, I recognized

The Metaphorical Call Often you will hear educators state that they are answering a "call" to be a teacher, that they always knew that teaching was the career path meant for them. Or maybe they

For someone that has never watched an episode of Parks and Recreation, I have been referred to as Leslie Knope several times in the past few years. From what I gather in the context, and my admiration

Thankfully, the majority of my friends and family know better than to ask what I do all summer, but it does seem to be a long perpetuated myth that teachers just bask in the sun and read books all summer

After utilizing our well-honed Tetris skills to get our final load on the trailer and ratcheted down, we made our way back to the new house and began unpacking in earnest. It seems crazy that it had taken

I promise to update you all on how the move is going, but for the meantime I will just share one of Kharma's favorite games ever: Balloon Volleyball. As you can see, she is incredible at it, whereas we

Today @quantumanomaly and I moved into our new home. We had a lot of help from our friends and could not have gotten as much done as we did without them. Here is some photos of the adventure. After we

Tomorrow we will be getting ready for bed in our new house, and I am so excited for this new place in life that we have both worked so hard to create. On the other hand, I feel a since a loss for the home

"A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep." Welcome To Night Vale- Episode 1: Pilot Can someone

As a science teacher, I often find things that I would love to purchase for my own classroom. Today was no exception because I was introduced to AR books that the librarian I have been working with bought

Better late than never... A couple of days ago I mentioned that I was going to share how it went with my students using Ollie Bots in my coding/engineering class that I have been substituting for this

Big thanks to @hopehuggs for hosting this contest. It was a much needed reprieve from the moving stress and a good way recharge my creativity before the week begins again. Follow this link if you are

Just set a box down and come back to find it ready to move.

As my previous post indicated, not all classes will respond the same way to certain classroom management strategies. One thing that is prevalent among all grade levels is some form of attention-getter,

Kharma The Corgi Has Some Sweet Moves. See if you can try to achieve this level of dance skill. Wait until 0:22 for the correct activation sequence to be inputed for dance mode to engage. And apologies

So I felt like my sister, @wrlangdon08 deserves a shout-out. Recently she gifted me a pair of brand new tennis shoes in exchange for future babysitting duties so her and her husband can go have some date

Image Source The Struggle Is Real Classroom management is one of the most difficult things to teach new educators. It truly is something you can only learn with practice and, generally, after a lot of

I mentioned last night how I finally got my brother and sister interested enough in steemit to join. They both got their activation keys today and have started getting familiar with the community. Now,

Author and illustrator Eric Carle was born on June 25, 1929. To celebrate his upcoming birthday, my co-teacher and I decided to have the kids in our classes watch a video of Eric Carle reading one of his

For a few weeks I have been chatting up my dad, a software engineer, and my siblings about the work I have been doing on Steem. Whether it be the HF19 magic or just overall interest from them wanting to