About Me
Hello, my name is Nancy, and I’m a Teacher Geek.
I share Classroom Best Practices. I’m a teacher, blogger, runner, compulsive list-maker, coffee addict, and sticky-note hoarder. I love teaching so much that eat, sleep, and breathe it. I must have an outlet for sharing ideas, strategies, and resources, or I just might explode. And that would be bad.
I’m a wife and mommy, too. Teaching creeps into wife-dom and mommy-dom, too. (Sticker charts, anyone?)
If you’re reading this, you may be a teacher geek. Don’t deny it, embrace it! Comment! Contribute! Share the geek love!
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P.S. I also write about teacher-y stuff on other blogs (and I like to make up words like “teacher-y”):
- I wrote a piece for ISTE about my career change into teaching.
- I wrote another piece for ISTE about surviving unemployment purgatory and a follow up to that article about tips for landing a new teaching job.
- I wrote a blog for Really Good Stuff about Writing Centers.
- I wrote a post for Tolerance.org about building empathy.
This is a personal blog about best practices in the classroom. This blog is not affiliated with any current or former employers. Please do not contact me through this blog to discuss student issues – use my school email address found on the school’s website. Thank you.
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Congratulations on starting your blog! That’s all I got…I might be a geek, but not a teacher.
This is so great Nancy! I hope I did it right when I subscribed – let me know if I didn’t. I love the quick ideas – kudos for getting it up and running!
Nancy, I love your header, especially the coffee part! I like your blog and want to encourage you to keep it up. I’m starting one as well and am just getting the site in order. It is currently under construction and entirely self published with my own domain and design. Wish me luck.
#Len_Horn
Thank you!! I’m finding this whole blogging thing quite fun. It’s helped me to be disciplined (self-imposed deadlines) and it’s made me think more about my writing process. Good luck!
I love your site! I refer to it often, and you seem to be an amazing educator.
I totally get everything you do, and I especially love the Hallo- wieners.
Thank you for sharing!
WOW! Thanks for the compliment!
Hi Nancy,
I just found your blog while I was searching for some clip art to add to a back to school packet for my 5th graders. I teach in Santiago, Chile – hence, school year starting in March. Anyway – I was looking at some of those book reports and wondering what grade are you teaching. Thank you and keep blogging!
Thank you for reading and commenting! This year I am teaching Grade 2, but I have previously taught Grade 5.
Wow! Just came across your blog & I’m on Spring Break, yeah the teacher brain never stops, lol. Great blog, wish I’d come across it months ago, can’t wait to read more & “borrow” more ideas
Thanks for reading! My brain just doesn’t stop, period. Drives my husband crazy. “Borrow” away!!
Hi, I just came across your blog when searching for an image of “Owl Moon” to add to one of my grauate course final. I am in love with your site! I am starting my first year teaching this September (5th grade). I am so excited but also very nervous!!! I will definitely be visiting your site often for tips & moral support. Thank you!
Thank you! I remember that nervousness! (I still get nervous every year, btw.) 5th grade has a special place in my heart – I taught it for the first 3 years of my career. Just find a great mentor, and you’ll be fine!!
Good luck!
Hi,
Where are you based? If you’re in Oregon, I’d love to get you on our board (OCTE – Oregon Council of Teachers of English)
Thank you!! That sounds like a wonderful opportunity, but I’m on the opposite coast – Connecticut, for now.
We’re still at it over at Wandermonster. Please check out this little video intro to the project: http://www.vimeo.com/30267147 and our new thumbnail archive, which is much easier way to navigate the site: http://wandermonster.com/archive/
Thanks!
Rob + Ben
LOVE the video (The photo booth with the baby is great)!! And the archive is not only helpful, but the squares in and of themselves are a lovely visual. Can you believe how many you have??