Lessons With Coffee

I thought it might be fun to tell you what I have planned each week.  I typically do my weekly lesson plans on Sunday so it is an easy post for me to keep up with and then you can see all the fun learning we have going on! I will also share with you items that I have purchased that I plan to use and Items that I made that I plan to use each day! ***Update*** I went to look for a picture to put at the top of this...and low and behold there is a linky for this...Of course there is! So I am linking up with Mrs. Laffin's Laughings for A Peek At My Week ! So here it goes!  Week Three.  The official second full week of school.  Can you believe that I am already 9 days into school?  I have a really good set of kids, I am also however supposed to start teaching Minnesota Studies (yes a social studies class) here sometime soon so eventually this post is going to be longer as I will have 4 sections of 6th grade math, one section of 6th grade Minnesot...

Hey all. BTS hit me like a freight train.  Also with my trip. ENGLAND PICTURES TO COME LATER. I got super sick on the way home from England and have not recovered.   They have me on a super crazy drug that makes me super ridiculously tired and also EVERY SINGLE JOINT IN MY BODY is aching! One of my favorite IG gals( TwentySomethingTeacher! ) featured me in her little blog on Friday so I thought I should actually post something NOT related to SLANT. Teacher Fashion.  I like to think of myself as a pretty stylish gal.  I RARELY pay full price for things. You can find me shopping at these stores on a regular basis: One of my very best girlfriends that I never get to see anymore because her store has EXPLODED started this shop in a modest little location in St. Paul.  To my delight she has just announced that she and her business partner (another gal I like to call a good friend) their SIXTH location in the Twin Cities.  ...

The September theme and detailed rules for the exchange can be found  HERE .   Please read this blog entry THOROUGHLY before you email me with any questions.  Matches are found in a link at the end of this post. (I have also emailed you the link to the email you signed up with.) Instructions now that you are paired! 2) Below you will find a link to a Google Doc where I have created all of your matches.  Please download the file before asking questions about it.  Here are some things to know about the Google Doc: There are 4 tabs along the bottom. The first is a list of all of the participants in alphabetical order by email.  Like I said in the email.  You are divided into bloggers and non-bloggers.  As months go on you are more than welcome to switch groups, just let me know by indicating that you now have a blog on the next sign up! The next two are the matches based on blog ownership or not.  You need to find BOT...

Hey all! I am an a super bloghop with a bunch of my mathy secondary friends!   I chose to write about the book Multiplication is For White People  by  Lisa  Delpit In the wake of the  Ferguson  shooting I thought, for a hot second, about changing my book.  After all I am a white teacher, teaching in an urban school.  But then I was reminded of my DUTY of making sure that I point out injustices when I see them. That is THE ONE AND ONLY thing that I can do to help make sure that I am doing my part as a white person in the cause of racial inequity.  The first time I read this book, my eyes were open.  The second time I read this book, I felt guilty as a white teacher.  The third time I read this book, I changed the way I teach.  The fourth time I read this book, I knew EVERY TEACHER IN THE WORLD SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. Immediate changes I made: HIGH expectations for all of my students. - a C is not acce...