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I'm slowly catching-up in my #SundayFunday prompts!   This is the prompt from week nine of the Sunday Funday blogging initiative.  It's never too late to join in!  You can read more about the challenge  here  if you like.  This week's challenge is to write about our classroom set-up. I posted a few pictures from my classroom on Twitter prior to the start of the year. At the time, I was looking forward to incorporating more group based whiteboard practice (Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces #VNPS) and continuing with the rotational station based model of blended learning.  Although I had successfully implemented this model involving small group instruction, group work, and individual work for the 4 previous years, this years' students struggled more than usual.  It may have been that I had more freshmen than ever before and they had not yet developed the confidence and self-discipline needed to work productively while I was with...

This is week four of the Sunday Funday blogging initiative.  It's never too late to join in!  You can read more about the challenge  here  if you like.  This week's challenge is to write about organization. Organization: Well, seeing as how I'm posting this entry several hours past the deadline, I certainly could use some organization pointers for sure.  However, I do have a few pointers. Do everything digitally if possible.  My students will have 1-1 iPads before the start of the second marking period.  Until then, I'll continue to use my class cart of laptops.  I am fortunate enough to have those as part of a grant that I signed-up for circa 2007.  The machines were updated one time in those 10 years, so the technology available is anything but cutting edge, but it is functional. The reason I love organizing digitally is that it is easier for me to make lots of folders inside of other folders and to move/update things as needed. ...

I'm am teaching in a hybrid learning environment again this year.  You can read about that here . Here is how I have arranged my stations: direct: independent: collaborative: I used a bunch of posters that were shared by Sarah Hagan and Meg Craig So excited for the new year!!