High school teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand here! This video was so helpful!

niiiice....my next open class activity... CHECK!

What is a good resource to help understand the science of reading?

How did you keep up with the logs? When did you do them?

I miss hearing from you! I hope you are doing well Bridget! ❤

Nice to see you grow as a teacher.

God bless you as a teacher of young children. I taught for 25 years...mainly Englihs and ESL...but also I did teach 4th grade in a Christian school or two for four years. I love 4th grade, such a great age to learn. My school was great in academics...we even had a chess club in my room. One boy would let me win sometimes. His name was Nicholas and his foather was second ranked adult chess player in all of Louisiana...(Nicholas could sometimes beat his Dad at chess, so he was brilliant).

Students do need a sense of order...so you might try the u-shape or the traditional style. They sometimes like to be in teams of four...they can choose the team name and have competiton for projects etc...just some ideas for you.

I would love to hear how you have managed going from structured time and schedules to every day is something different. Now in your second year in this position, even though your content focuses have changed what have you learned to help with varying schedules day to day?

Also we need more of these day in the life on the job blogs from you! These are what are missing from your KZbin!

Outfit is sooo cute!!! Love a suit on you! Only thing I would say is as being in an administrative position that you are in I would not go with sneakers like that with a suit. I would have tried to be way more professional with say a longed toe flat or a low heel pump or bootie. I do not think the sneaker and suit look is right for your position

Thank you so much! We have a grassroot Children Reading Club (CRC) at my church. I love these ideas!❤❤❤📝📝

Where did you get the poster? I’m trying to find them

Thank you...this is helpful for homeschooling

Teachers, you have no advocates in the ed system. None. Being good is useless, and actually counterproductive. You will pay a terrible price if you follow all the rules, written and unwritten.

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I also think this is especially true for classroom management. People are just throwing treats and rewards and PBIS but these kids are severely lacking in intense social emotional learning needs. They are being forced to grow up so fast but they cant handle their emotions without being taught and we’ve decided they only need ten minutes a day for that, at least where i’m teaching. We have ten minutes a day for these kids that need hours of sel lessons and practice and time just bonding with their peers.

You’re so right. Everyone is just looking for the one thing to solve solutions. I understand the science behind the science of teaching reading. I agree with all that. But the way they are choosing to implement in the classroom seems way too disconnected from how teaching actually works. It’s my first year and I find the curriculum so hard to follow because its exactly what you said. And the students are interested in NONE of it because the stories are boring and completely unrelated to their interests. There’s nooo time for interest based reading for them or time for them to follow their own passions. 😭😭😭😭😭

Thanks for sharing Bridget

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Bridget, this was a motivational video for me. I loved the calm background music and your checklists to show the tasks you were accomplishing. You are inspiring me to get my stuff done! Thanks for all you do! 💜

Hello, Bridget! What a fun outing to your in-laws' farm! I enjoyed seeing the beautiful scenery, patio, and garden. These kinds of teacher videos make me so happy because they remind me to work on balance between school and the rest of my life. Thanks for sharing your ideas and experiences with us! 💜

Hello, Bridget! I love all these tools, but my favorites are the highlighters, sheet protectors, and whiteboards. I even bought some whiteboard clipboards from Amazon and they have worked really well this year. This was one of my favorite videos of yours because these materials are useful for various activities and grade levels. Thank you for sharing. You rock! 💜

Bridget, these were all creative games that I know my third graders would enjoy. I agree that grammar can seem a little dry for kids, so these games will add interest and engagement. Thanks for all you do to support other teachers. You are awesome! 💜

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*Zero irony that the "people" talking about simplifying the complexity of things via a story of a man are two women? Over complexity usually stems from women, NOT men. Plus you took 17 minutes to explain what could have been done in 5? No script, "chit-chat"? Yikes! No.*

I agree wholeheartedly. However, as a classroom teacher, I am scared to deviate from what the administration/the district is asking for. Previously, I worked at a Title I school where the majority of students were ML learners. We were a targeted school because we fell well below other schools in our districts. We had constant walk-throughs where every small thing was nit-picked. Even the way we displayed student work had requirements. This year I transferred to a new school where it's better, but that fear remains. As a classroom teacher we often see the problems but feel powerless to impact greater change.

I see this so much as an instructional coach. My goal this year is trying to simplifying their day and schedule. Thank you for this video. Do you have a protocol that you help teachers and teams that works for them to evaluate their schedule and programs.

Can we talk about how even if teaching to “fidelity” that there are still numerous inputs that make the data extremely unscientific?

I totally appreciate this take and discussion. Granted, I am not even close to upper elementary. I've been teaching preschool within the Head Start program in Lackawanna county Pennsylvania for the past 3 years and prior to that I was in the daycare setting, however I learned during my teaching certification program that it is really important to diversify what types of information I'm pulling in, hence me being a long time follower. In that sense it has led me to be aware of the trends and education in grades well above mine, as it will support my practices in preschool. A big conversation that was had in our agency two years ago was how we are adhering to what fidelity looks like in the classroom, and your discussion here is very similar to what the curriculum trainer helped many of us embrace. Fidelity is about routines and expectations within the self. The curriculum is a skeleton system with some of the organs attached, some of the systems need your expertise as a teacher to fill out the body. Many of the teachers in that training heard Fidelity and truly felt like it's taking their autonomy away. The big push and argument against it was that this is what we spend money on going to school for, we don't need a curriculum that forces us to teach in a specific way. She explained that even though some parts are scripted, we are all talented and capable educators and we need to take the framework and implement that the best we can. Starting small, incorporating mighty minutes with consistency, adhering to the structure of morning meeting with elements that we know are best suited for our classrooms, and that it's not trying to take our autonomy away, it's encouraging us to follow a framework that has been studied and researched for years and sticking to it for the duration of a big chunk of time so we can prove that it works with meaningful data. I can't speak to the other teachers in the agency, but I know that with that mind shift of understanding that it's incorporating a sense of system and routine and how you approach the programming, you can still use your assets and skill sets in the classroom effectively. You can still teach, adjust things and differentiate things as needed, you can be the teacher you trained to be. However, this takes some of the burden of decision making off our shoulders. When you have it built into your routine like clockwork, there is no thinking you're just doing. It becomes part of the brain programming. This allows more time for documentation, it allows more opportunity for self-reflection in the moment. When we are overcomplicating things by throwing in core programs that address all kinds of content (for me it would be specific social emotional curriculums, math programs to address developmentally appropriate needs in early childhood) not just literacy, it's becoming too much and this is where teachers stray, just like you pointed out. When I was student teaching in the Scranton School district, I was in second grade and in observing some of the team meetings and departmentalized meetings, Fidelity was such a foul word lol. And as an older adult embracing my desire to be a teacher (at the time I was 34) I had enough sense to just sit back and observe and not drink the Kool-Aid. I am not a big fan of canned curriculums but I also understand that you can make them work, as long as you follow the structure and stay consistent. Students need time to learn concepts, and we need to make it more accessible and simplifying it is the perfect way to do so. I hope I'm understanding what you're trying to explain and if I'm not feel free to correct me. This is an awesome discussion to be a part of as an observer from the preschool arena that support elementary when my students leave.

Yes, the current system is too complex. At the elementary level at least they need to go back to the 3 Rs or reading, writing and arithmetic. There’s little point in having all of these various academic subjects if the inmates at the local grade school lunatic asylum cannot even learn to read, write or memorize their multiplication tables referred to as “goesintas” by Gomer Pyle.

what is the title of this whiteboard app ?

Thank you so much.

Also, LOVE the thumbnail!!!

Can’t wait to do these activities! My kids are into scary stories. A couple of years ago I used a box fan to make a big campfire. I used orange lights and tissue paper to make the flames. Put it on low speed or the flames will fly off!

Great ideas thank you!

Recess was always the most fun time in early childhood school

Stop ur explanation and the activity

This was great!

Incorporating SPED & ESL strategies in GenED is a game-changer for students & ensures that you are doing UDL & MTSS!

Your videos are super helpful, thank you! Could you please do videos on differentiated instruction and on how to use mentor sentences to teach writing. Thanks again for all your videos!

I'm also here for figuring out how to deal with the amount of vocab in CKLA. This curriculum reminds me SO much of what we were so happy to get rid of back in the 70s! It all comes back, repackaged.

Hello. I watched your other video first. Our district has just adopted CKLA. I am on unit 2 and am fine tuning my vocabulary instruction.Your videos have helped me so much. Thank you. As I watch and listen I am trying use your suggestions in CKLA. The lessons in CKLA have us introduce vocabulary with the speaking and listening (about 6 vocabulary words) and reading (about 6 vocabulary words). That adds up to about 12 per day each day. It is a lot which is the word every teacher says when they talk about CKLA. They do have a word for “word work” maybe I use those to dig deeper. I have heard you mention CKLA. Do you have any advice of how to do this with CKLA? I did also join your community and will watch your video there.

Hi, is this applicable to first grade? If not what else to use for bilingual first grade, than you, love your videos.

Hello. I have really been enjoying your videos as we are teaching while using CKLA whis is brand new to our district. My new challenge is because it often has a speaking / listening part with about 6 vocab words and it has a reading part with about 6 words. As you probably know this happens almost every day. It is a lot. So do I need to do an annotated version of this of focus on 1-2 words each day.

Hi

This is a great resource, but there seems to be a typo in your definition of leered. Leer is a verb so the definition we give students should be in verb form so they can use the word correctly.

How do you decide between explicit and face mapping?

I recently heard of Marzano's Taxonomy, but I'm still confused on it's difference from Bloom’s Taxonomy when Bloom's wasn't meant to be a rigid hierarchy

Thank you!