Wandering the Halls of Academia - Teaching and Living Today

Wow! Step 20! Really? Who knew? Perhaps it's time for a sequel to the  Guide ! Perhaps, but first... VIDEO PREVIEWS Scary thing to consider doing, I know! Just did our first one today, and created a YouTube Channel,  ELA in Middle School by Matthew and Suzanne Forman , and even posted said first video onto said channel! It may not be the BEST of quality, but it actually isn't the worst I've seen! And, Deb Mendoza, Lily Pad Queen of  Froggy About Teaching , viewed it and said that I had to warn people, er, inform people, about how to do these! So, with as little prompting as I require having been met, here goes! The first thing you need to know is that your video preview can be as easy or as detailed as you want to make it. Michael De Main of  The Wheel Edu  creates how to videos all the time for his Teacher-Author partners to help us become more successful entrepreneurs! These can be found on his YouTube Channel,   [re]Building Teachers and Teacher Authors . Michael is one

So, with Distance Learning we have a new aspect of our resources to look at - creating the resource to be COMPLETELY useable for remote online teaching, or a REMOTE READY RESOURCE. If you are a seller with TpT, you have probably seen the offers to do the BETA testing of their automatic "fillable distance form" versions of your resources. I tried it. I did not like it. It is basically a text box placed over every page. And, from what we teacher-authors have been hearing, customers don't like these either. So, what's an Entrepreneur to do? Create the resource to match the need! All of the Novel Study Guides mentioned  are available on AUL, The Wheel Edu and TpT Fortunately, this is a fairly easy fix, IF you create the way I have tried to show you, in PowerPoint. It took me 6 hours to recreate our Touching Spirit Bear  Novel Study Guide, 4 hours for the Novel Study Guide for A Long Walk to Water, and a whopping 2 hours for Rumble Fish  to become a REMOTE READY RESOURCE.

First, I need to say thank you to Debbie Mendoza of Froggy About Teaching ! She is highlighting different Teacher-Authors and their resources this week leading to the BTS Sale on AUL ! The BTS Sale will be July 31st through August 3rd! Now for something else that is REALLY EXCITING! Michael De Main at The Wheel Edu  sent us an email about the HUGE Giveaway The Wheel will be doing! We are having a #Celebration Sale! Between now and August 3rd, purchase ANY resource on The Wheel that has "Celebration in it's name, and you are automatically entered for the drawing! Actually, to enter, do these steps by August 3: Follow The Wheel on Instagram, Facebook, and/or Twitter Join either the Primary Teacher Life group or Secondary Teacher Life group (which you can join and post resources in any time) Register an account on The Wheel Bonus points if they follow any of the Wheeler's involved in the promotion. The purchase is not required prior to the 3rd! On August 7th, THREE (3) winne

A day or two before I left Tennessee to return home last week, I was privileged to sit down with Danny Hauger and Tavis Beem on their podcast, Inspiring Teachers . Danny is a history teacher, while Tavis teaches wood shop at the High School level, and both are so much more! In addition to being a teacher, Danny is also a singer/songwriter and musician, and a voice over artist! Here is his single, "Hold Tight (Blind Spot)"   to introduce you to his music! Yup. I am jealous. It was a great experience getting to talk with my friends, Debbie Mendoza of Froggy About Teaching , and Christy Gandara of HomeSchool Holidays , as well as Danny and Tavis. They were definitely more relaxed and succinct than I was!  If you know me, you know I enjoy talking about pretty much anything. I've been known to become rather excited about whatever I am discussing, and becoming a bit long-winded - and I admit that it is true. However, in this case, while I did get to talk about our novel study

An ancient Chinese curse says, if I have it correct, "May you live in interesting times." Well, we all certainly do live in interesting times today! School districts, as well as entire nations in some cases, are still trying to work out how to best serve our students in the coming months as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Yet, here in the States, professional sports are returning and reopening, which begs a question: how are the football players going to huddle up while maintaining social distancing? Let alone the fans? The players may wear face shields on their helmets, which may help, but the fans? You can't even get them to keep their clothes on when it's snowing in the stadium! Do we really believe they will keep masks on? And will they really remain 6 feet apart? And how will you drink your beer and eat your hot dogs with a mask on? "Get hots! Get 'cher Red Hots!" Riiight... I have returned to Texas from Tennessee, and I have to say that it is good

On Amped Up Learning , we are having another $2 Tuesday Sale!  Stop by for SITE-WIDE $AVING$! And, today was our Raffle with AUL for our Novel Study Guide to Accompany Linda Sue Park's A Long Walk to Water ! Congratulations to: And just to say thank you to everyone who entered, we are doing a 50% off sale until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT CDT! Stop in and SAVE ! Enter code HalfWalk at checkout!

Remember to like the page, like the post, and tag two other teachers in the comments! Here is the link to the page: https://www.facebook.com/elainmiddleschool/ Here is the link to the study guide 5 people will win: https://ampeduplearning.com/a-long-walk-to-water-novel-stu…/ Here is the link to the Bundle for the Grand Prize: https://ampeduplearning.com/a-long-walk-to-water-novel-stu…/ Good luck!