Here’s the Latest!
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Sneak Preview of My Course- You Can Ace High School and Still Have a Life
Learn how to teach your high school student to independently manage their own workload in my You Can Ace High School and Still Have a Life course. Are you frustrated with managing your high school’s homework? This course is for you. After taking this course, you will be able to teach your high school student to…
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Modify and Adjust
If you are a teacher, you just groaned a little (sorry!). Kind of like hearing “PIVOT” in 2020, teachers constantly hear, and have to modify and adjust… …and you should too, whether you’re a teacher or not. Things do not happen exactly as we plan them, so we need to plan for this as best…
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3 Ways to Prepare for a Busy Week
If you know ahead of time, here are 3 ways to prepare for a busy week: Preparing for a busy week before it starts is just being kind to your future self.
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7 Historical Fiction Books with a Color in the Title
Historical Fiction Books with a Color in the Title
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Top 3 Tips for Preparing for your Final Exams
Top 3 Tips for Preparing for your Final Exams Number of circled questions / number of days left to study = number of questions to study per day Hopefully these tips to prepare for your final exams will help you! Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
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Top 3 Things To Do in the Middle of the Semester
Congrats, you’re halfway through the semester!! Hopefully things are going well. If not, here’s what to do: 1. Check your grades carefully to make sure everything looks right. Teachers are humans too- typos happen 🙂 If not, respectfully email your teacher with your first and last name, course name, and “Questions about Assignments (fill in…
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A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon
A Girl Called Samson is based on a true story about a girl who disguised herself as a man to serve in the Continental Army in the American Revolution. Samson (known as Robert Shurtliff in the army) served as an aide to General John Paterson (who mainly fought in New York and Philadelphia). Don’t skip…
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Why I Started Using a Planner
I started using a planner, or more accurately, a student agenda in middle school when my teachers forced us all to do so. The school provided these student agendas with the dress code printed inside, along with other school rules. Each day, at the end of each class, the teacher had us write down the…
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My Planners
I used to stick to academic planners (like the Lilly Pulitzer academic planner) since I’m a teacher, but then I switched to the Passion Planner in 2020 after my daughter was born. She was born right at the beginning of the pandemic, so I was teaching from home, my husband was working from home, and…
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Organization is a Learnable Skill by Lisa Woodruff
I decided to read Organization is a Learnable Skill by Lisa Woodruff for the M. Judson Bookseller’s (Greenville, South Carolina) 2023 Reading Challenge: read a memoir written by someone who has your dream job. I love Lisa’s podcast (Organize 365), and one of her other books, The Paper Solution. The podcast is great for when I…