Everything happens for a reason, right? I loved how my Uber driver reminded me of this when he was bringing my best friend Nycol Didcote and me back to the airport last week. I’m not an Uber expert, we actually don’t even have Uber where […]
Change can be hard. Change can be really slow. Change can require a lot of patience, energy, determination, and persistence. But in order for there to even be hope for change to happen, we need to realize that change is necessary. In the last month […]
Lesson plans organized and thought out to a T, my grade two students and I embarked on an adventure to explore what we are thankful for… but I couldn’t have predicted what happened; sometimes things just don’t go as planned! We started off by reading […]
This week, I came across this post on Facebook: “It is truly unbelievable that the use of cell phones is not banned in *name of district* high schools, universally.” It stopped me dead in my tracks. When I see things like this, I’m never sure […]
2017 has been an amazing year for me and although I’m sad to see it coming to an end, I’m excited for the future, and what another year of growth will look like. I feel as though lately, I’ve been in a little bit of […]
One of the big reasons why I wanted to become a teacher is because I struggled a lot academically throughout my schooling. Reading, writing, and spelling were always a huge challenge for me, and certain teachers went out of their way to build amazing relationships […]
I’m very lucky in the sense that I’ve always worked for administrators who encourage risk taking, support me, and are always open to hearing about new things I want to try in the classroom. They open doors for me and try to eliminate barriers that […]
This blog post is co-written by best friends, Nycol Didcote and Annick Rauch after attending Connect 2017 in Niagara Falls. At the beginning of the school year, we were searching for a conference to attend which would be worthwhile… so, we decided to ask for […]