November 18, 2012

What are you Thankful for??

Happy Thanksgiving week everyone!! I am sure we all have many things to be thankful for. Here are my top three:

1. God…I am so thankful to serve a patient, forgiving, loving, and mighty God who has given me many blessings!!

2. My Family…I am very blessed to have a wonderful husband (Andy) And three beautiful children; Sophie (13), Malaya (11), and Greyson (9). They have been so patient with me as I work on my new blog and continue to create resources for myself and other teachers.

3. My awesome school family…I couldn’t imagine a better group of people to work with!!!

What are your top 3? I would love to hear from you!

Out of This World Literacy

11 hours ago

Are you like me? {read to find out or click here now 👉 bit.ly/2LUYL2I}

You want to provide the very best lessons for your students every day, but it becomes quickly overwhelming to find everything you need?

I feel you. As a classroom teacher, I often scrambled for resources that fit what I needed for the day.

I was that teacher who was the first car in the parking lot every morning. I'd spend a solid 45 minutes searching the internet or my trusty old filing cabinet for that magical lesson that would make reading or writing extra amazing that day.

It was super stressful to always be on the hunt for the next best thing.

But, I knew my students deserved the best, so I kept hunting.

I continued this pattern for years as a classroom teacher. Then I earned my master's degree in reading and became a literacy coach.

I was now in the position to help teachers avoid these pitfalls that I fell into year after year.

I could help.

That's when I decided to start writing.

In the summer of 2011, I sat down and wrote reading and writing month-long units of study for teachers in my building. I spent the entire summer writing. Some days I even forgot to shower...NO. JOKE. LOL

All that effort was worth it though when I returned to school in the fall. I got to share the units with the teachers I was working with and they were ECSTATIC.

To know that I could help my teachers avoid those common struggles made all the time and effort that summer totally worth it.

And then, of course, I was hooked! I couldn't stop writing.

I spent the 2012-2013 school year writing more units. 10 in total. By the end of the year, I was exhausted from working full time and writing every night and weekend. But, I was so fully satisfied in knowing that I was helping the teachers I cared so much about.

Since that year I haven't stopped creating lessons for teachers. Now I am honored to help teachers not only in that one building but around the world.

This is why I am SO SUPER excited about launching the Out of This World Membership Site.

The OOTWL membership site is a place for teachers to:
✔️ quickly login to one spot
✔️ download the lessons they need for the
day/week/month
✔️ rest-assured that their literacy instruction is ready for the year
✔️ relax and refocus on actual teaching, rather than scrambling for what to teach

No more scouring the internet, old file cabinets, or being forced into boring basals, with one-size-fits-all lessons.

This is the first time I'm able to offer the 6 years of lessons in ONE spot and one low monthly payment. It's really the perfect place for teachers in grades 2-6 to be.

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Out of This World Literacy shared Gerry Brooks's post.

11 hours ago

He absolutely kills me!! For all those emails teachers...boom, here you go!! 😂😂😂

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Out of This World Literacy

12 hours ago

👉 Imagine logging in to one spot and having access to literally hundreds of Literacy resources for EVERY day of the year!? 😮🙌🙀💃🎉 Membership info is here!!! 👉 bit.ly/2LUYL2I

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