To Celebrate Valentine's Day in the Classroom [S2 E42]
Today, we bring you yet another exciting COLLABISODE with listeners to the podcast! Valentine’s Day is a fun “holiday” to celebrate in the classroom and we thought we’d bring some new ideas your way by handing off the microphone to six amazingly creative teachers. These six teachers have ideas that will help you brainstorm your own take on a Valentine’s celebration ranging from week-long kindness activities, to poetry lessons, and more! Here in the show notes, we’d like to introduce you a bit further to our guest-hosts and let you get in touch with the educator that you were most inspired by.
If you want Amanda’s haiku deathmatch freebie mentioned in the introduction, grab it below. Then, keep on reading to meet our wonderful guests!
Dany Macias is a 9th grade English Language Arts and Reading Literature teacher in Orem, Utah who loves talking about books, reading books, and especially sharing books with others. She is a former technology coach and currently serves on the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology board and as a Utah Teacher Fellow.
For resources from the show, click here
To follow Dany, join her on Instagram @booktalklady, on Twitter @DanyMacILC, or check out her website!
Jeanine is a fifth grade teacher committed to creating helpful engagement strategies for students. She is also a wife and a mom who loves to laugh and is building a TpT business and blog on top of it all!
To access the blog post from the show, click here.
To access the heart activity mentioned, click here.
To keep in touch with Jeanine, catch her on Instagram or check out her website!
Marialuisa Gonzalez is a 9th Grade English teacher in Chicago, Illinois. Over the past nine years, she has taught grades 9-12, but finds 9th grade to be her niche. Her passions include helping students make meaning of literature, incorporating Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) into weekly practice, emphasizing Mental Health in education, and sharing tech tips on her social media.
Marialuisa has also been a member of her school’s leadership team to develop instructional support for the past four years.
For resources from the show, click here.
To follow Marialuisa, catch her on Instagram!
Meredith is a founder of Bespoke ELA. She has taught high school English for 10+ years in Dallas, Chicago, and New York City. She has always had a connection to the written word-- through songwriting, screenplay writing, and essay writing-- and she enjoys the process of teaching students how to express their ideas.
To access the resource she shared in the show, click here.
To connect with Meredith, find her on Instagram, her TpT store, or her blog!
Samantha Green spent three years as an instructional coach supporting literacy teachers in underperforming schools. Through focusing on collaboration and best practices, these schools turned around due to impressive gains. But it was the love of the classroom and the challenge of striving readers that has led her back into the classroom as both a Language Arts and Intensive Reading teacher.
You can for sure expect her to be promoting (peddling??) books aimed at representation to students at her school or to her followers on her various social media platform.
For resources from the show, click here.
To connect with Samantha, find her on Instagram or her website.
Olivia Blackmon has taught ELA for 5 years in Dallas, TX. She has a passion for helping students of any age find joy in learning and making learning meaningful, no matter the content. She enjoys collecting quotes, asking her students questions that may not have answers, and supporting her students through whatever the school year and beyond may bring.
For a copy of her resource mentioned in the show, click here.