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Simplicity in Weekly Design

Skip is mentoring a new teacher and gave her this. I think it is a good thing to put here, to remind us how we can keep things simple this year. We need to address

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Lesson Plan Hell 5

It wasn’t under a hot dog. Ardythe had it. Thanks Ardythe for finding it. Note that this is not a unit plan, as we’ve been discussing, but a weekly plan. This plan adheres to standards

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Anny Ewing

I will add more bios as we go along. The posters are updated on that page of this site and we can talk about that. I thought it would be a big deal but since

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Lesson Plan Hell 4

Got this from skip on the lesson plan thing: Hey Ben, I remember during the second part of the school year you wrote a lot about lesson plans.  You provided a template. I can only

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Lesson Plan Hell 3

I had asked Michele to address grouping kids in this lesson plan thing we are discussing now. Here is her response to add to Laurie’s and thank you both so much for your wisdom –

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Lesson Plan Hell 2

For those new to the group, whenver we get a comment that is really valuable, we turn it into an article so that it can be found more easily via the search process and since

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