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Read time ~3 minutes On the Friday morning before Labor Day Weekend on this district’s teacher’s first day back to school (let that sink...

Estimated read time: 3 minutes 40 seconds Earlier this year I had the honor of presenting a PD session for some teachers in western...

~4 min read The idea for this blog post has been on my mind since last semester ended in early May. It wasn’t until I was inspired by an...

Reading time 2 min If there’s one thing I have learned since teaching Spanish at the college level it’s that students have become less...

Reading time: <3 min For whatever reason, the spring semester ended early this year - or at least it seems that way. And, just like I...

Reading time 7:48 This semester in SPAN 1004 (the last course that students are required to take AND the highest level course offered at...

estimated reading time 4:18 Teacher friends always joke, “I should have taught P.E., then I wouldn’t have all of this work to [assess].”...

It’s final exam time, the time in the semester when students in my college classes are either sitting pretty or totally freaking out. The...

~4 min read A couple of weeks ago, I had the great pleasure to travel to the FFLA (Florida) Annual world language teacher conference. It...

Reading time 3 min 30 seconds Did September even happen? I mean, did we experience all thirty days? I don’t know about anyone else, but...

Reading time ~3:30 min It seems that every year at about this time I have a similar experience paddle boarding which is always a metaphor...

Reading time <3 min It’s that time of year once again: a total freak-out for teachers. Though there is no actual Paul Revere-like...

Jennifer Degenhardt Reading time: 2:38 We walked into the classroom, greeting the teacher, a small woman who didn’t seem a match - not in...

By Jennifer Degenhardt and Theresa Marrama ~4 min read There are so many different angles on which to write about the state of...

3 min read You already know how I feel about projects in general, but since only half the class wished to partake in the movie creation,...

(and I am NOT a fan!) (~4 min read) Today was our last official class of the semester in elementary SPAN 1002. It was the day that...

5 min read I don't often write about anything that goes on in my classroom, not because it isn't good, but because it isn't Pinterest-...

*comprehensible input 7 minute read Happy (almost) New Year! Listen, 2022 HAS to be better than this past year, right? Teaching these...

Yesterday afternoon I received this email from a student: OMG, really? The student hasn't turned in a lick of work since the semester...

On the day of this photo taken last week on an epic 2.5 hour paddle, everything was perfect for my outing on the water: temperature: mid...