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I have really enjoyed listening to other educators and how their schools and districts run.

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Appreciate this opportunity to take this course, build my resources & collaborate with new colleagues.

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Appreciate this opportunity to take this course, build my resources & collaborate with new colleagues.

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I am shy when it comes to a whole class discussion,  so I apologize about that, but I promise that I am listening!

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I moved to a new district and so I forgot about PLCs. I want to ask my administrators about implementing this at my new school.

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Sorry if I seem distracted at times on Zoom; just trying to balance this all out, multitask, prioritize. Thank you for your patience. 

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Sorry if I seem distracted at times on Zoom; just trying to balance this all out, multitask, prioritize. Thank you for your patience. 

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Realizing how important SLEEP is!!! In order to function daily at my best, stay healthy and focused.

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Realizing how important SLEEP is!!! In order to function daily at my best, stay healthy and focused.

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I appreciate everyone for being open and honest, none of the discussions feel forced . I really enjoy hearing everyone's experience and perspective and am so excited to collaborate with you all! 

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I appreciate everyone for being open and honest, none of the discussions feel forced . I really enjoy hearing everyone's experience and perspective and am so excited to collaborate with you all! 

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I am much more of a listener than a talker so I apologize if it seems like I am not engaging as much during big group discussions. Also, when I do speak up I tend to get flustered and talk really fast, something I am working on improving :)

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I appreciate taking a class where everyone is so willing to share their thoughts and ideas and having such a kind and real instructor.  I feel fortunate after such an exhausting year to have time to grow and learn with great people in a great space!

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As a wise colleague said today during the Zoom session: "Just Ask!"

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I appreciate all of your time and your honest feelings that are shared. It is brave to share and compassionate to listen while creating a safe place for others. 

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I appreciate all of your time and your honest feelings that are shared. It is brave to share and compassionate to listen while creating a safe place for others. 

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I am reminded that I must utilize the resources that are offered to me at school to make a bigger change in the community and world. 

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I am reminded that I must utilize the resources that are offered to me at school to make a bigger change in the community and world. 

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I appreciate that this class feels like a safe space for discussion. Everyone has been so honest and kind. Thank you for being great classmates and helping me grow!

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I apologize for talking so much on zoom.  I will try hard to listen more intently, and withhold the urge to always speak up.

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I apologize for talking so much on zoom.  I will try hard to listen more intently, and withhold the urge to always speak up.

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Thank you everyone for sharing their insights and experiences so far. I also appreciate everyone's patience with me while I take my son to his driving class each day. I love being a part of this class.

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I recognized that I do some empowering things for my students without even knowing it. Validation is nice to see when it is unexpected. I look forward to hearing from everyone else when they too do empowering things unknowingly.

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I recognized that I do some empowering things for my students without even knowing it. Validation is nice to see when it is unexpected. I look forward to hearing from everyone else when they too do empowering things unknowingly.

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Thank you to everyone for being so awesome in this class! Everyone has been very open to share their thoughts and experiences. Additionally everyone has been very respectful of each other's turn to talk and respectful of differences in opinions.

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I sincerely appreciate being part of this workshop where in I am getting to learn so much from my peers and Professor. I am glad, I have initiated my summer in such a productive manner.

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I appreciate the energy people are putting into this class thus far. I loved Amy's Slideshow on a PD idea based on Spencer's definition of what professional development might look like! What a great take back to your staff. I had never created a full length Google Slides presentation before, so Amy inspired me to turn in my 2.4 assignment in Google Slides format. Also love the one page uber awesome artwork Nancy turned in on the empowerment descriptors. AND, I found out there are at least two other drummers in our group- great stuff!!!

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My aha moment was something that was in one of the articles. I know that educators sometimes want to do everything that is asked of them, but there must be balance even for empowered teachers.  Teachers need to prioritize their home lives, leadership opportunities, and classroom demands.  This means ranking what is most important to least important and allocating time accordingly.  I feel that the instructor and the class discussion reflect this belief.  Balance in all is key to empowerment and competency.

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My aha moment was something that was in one of the articles. I know that educators sometimes want to do everything that is asked of them, but there must be balance even for empowered teachers.  Teachers need to prioritize their home lives, leadership opportunities, and classroom demands.  This means ranking what is most important to least important and allocating time accordingly.  I feel that the instructor and the class discussion reflect this belief.  Balance in all is key to empowerment and competency.

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I just want apologize if I don't talk that much in class. I HATE Zoom.

Also, I'm getting ready to move and I also have to do a bunch of 🤬 in order to get ready for my new school, which is kind of a high performing school (whatever that means) They hired me to teach APUSH, which I'm happy about. But, I've only taught it last year, so I don't really know if I'm any good at it. Sooo.

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It is so interesting for me to hear what is happening in different districts around the country. I appreciate that no matter how different our districts are, teachers don't seem to change. You are the best people doing the best job. :)

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I appreciate our administrators working so hard this year to ensure students were supported.

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It is very difficult for me to sit at my screen and not multi-task, but I AM listening! I apologize if it seems like I might not be all there sometimes.

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Many of the activities we have engaged in are great connectors with our staff. This activity would be great for closing a meeting to see where teachers are at.

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I appreciate all the hard work that my colleagues have done! I really enjoyed looking at the empowered student projects!

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I an so motivated to work a morning meeting into my schedule next year because SEL is so important and it's an great to check in and start the day!

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Refreshing to hear Kathy mention that if we didn't get EVERY assignment in for the next day IT'S OK! (and we can catch up on Friday am! So Thank yoU!

ALSO... Shout out to our breakout rooms and small groups to have open discussions and share ideas/concerns! Feel like we are all going through similar experiences at various speeds!

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For speaking and repeating myself or not making complete sentences. There are so many thoughts and ideas in my head... running 100 mph!!!

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In our high school/middle school small group, discussing ideas, being realistic in our own classrooms and sites was encouraging to hear that WE REALLY ARE all in this together... we can learn from one another and lean on each other!

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In our high school/middle school small group, discussing ideas, being realistic in our own classrooms and sites was encouraging to hear that WE REALLY ARE all in this together... we can learn from one another and lean on each other!

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I apologize for being a little "checked out" at the beginning of class. My neurological condition was kicking in and I was struggling to prevent a seizure from happening. I also apologize for laughing so much during the break out room. My son's commentary was cracking me up.

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I really like talking with other teachers and hearing their perspectives about the information we are learning.

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Apologies if my cat is distracting during Zoom, she is very needy!

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Shout out to everyone for sharing experiences and things that work well for them in their classrooms. I am gathering so many great ideas from you all!

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I found out today that someone in the class teaches in my hometown and we only live like 15 minutes away from each other!

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I'm excited to try out the See-Think-Wonder routine with my first graders. We can have so much fun with this and the options are limitless!

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Thank you to Suzette, Nancy, and Sharon for a great discussion today in our breakout room! I loved hearing your reaction to the articles and am hoping we can brainstorm some ideas for bringing happiness journaling to the primary classroom!

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I love seeing all of your creative work. The quality is amazing. I could spend days on some of these assignments and not accomplish a fraction of what you young teachers can do.

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I am really looking forward to this next school year as I learn and read about so many new things and techniques- But I am comfortable knowing that I will always be learning. 

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I am really looking forward to this next school year as I learn and read about so many new things and techniques- But I am comfortable knowing that I will always be learning. 

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Sorry for multi-tasking during our Zoom today. It is really hard for me to just sit and stare at the screen for very long. But I promise I was still paying attention and following along even when my eyes were not on the screen.

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Thanks to all for the great insights and thoughtfulness you are bringing to the class each day. Our conversations show that teachers are forever learners and in turn instinctively help and teach others that learning. Together we are stronger.

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I am so appreciative of today's class discussion!

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The reflective conversations in breakout rooms have been helpful for me to digest all of the content. Thank you to everyone for sharing their ideas!

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I appreciated our fabulous presenters for sharing their favorite lessons!

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Great Presentations today classmates! Appreciate your detail to lessons, giving your time, energy and efforts to your students and these lessons! Thank you for sharing!

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Great Presentations today classmates! Appreciate your detail to lessons, giving your time, energy and efforts to your students and these lessons! Thank you for sharing!

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Sorry again for typing during class... organizing what is due where and when, just planning out the next couple days.

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Sorry again for typing during class... organizing what is due where and when, just planning out the next couple days.

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I can sleep in with no alarm clock tomorrow! :) WHooohoo! Small goals! Then actually excited to be productive and catch up AND get ahead of assignments in this class! Thank you all for being so supportive! Have a great weekend!

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I can sleep in with no alarm clock tomorrow! :) WHooohoo! Small goals! Then actually excited to be productive and catch up AND get ahead of assignments in this class! Thank you all for being so supportive! Have a great weekend!

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Thank you to our presenters today for sharing your AWEOME lessons! Great job!

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I loved hearing the lesson presentations today. Your students are lucky to have you. Great Job!!!

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I loved hearing the lesson presentations today. Your students are lucky to have you. Great Job!!!

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What fantastic lesson presentations today! Grateful to the presenters for sharing their ideas!

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I wanted to say thank you to Sam for inviting me to work with her group. I am looking forward to it! I also want to say I appreciate having some down time this weekend. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

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Great job today, presenters! I wish we could what your classrooms look like. : ) 

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Great job today, presenters! I wish we could what your classrooms look like. : ) 

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Thank you everyone for the fabulous teaching ideas that you all shared today.

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Thanks for all the great ideas and engagement during and after the presentations today! It's clear we have some seriously dedicated and passionate learners in our midst, not to mention some super smart folks! Thanks again all and see you Monday!

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Sorry for not being prepared or understanding what Kathy wanted me to do today with opening. I was flustered with my computer and didn't hear her directions clearly. I just heard my name and the rest was the Peanuts teacher sound. WwwwWwwwww LOL

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Thank you to all of the awesome presenters today, I learned so much from you all! Megan I can't wait to use that wrinkled heart activity in my class! Also, thank you Kellen for suggesting the PBS brain series with David Eagleman, super cool videos that I can't wait to share with my class when we learn about brain plasticity!

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Aha! I can adapt any of these wonderful activities for middle school. Thank you for being courageous in presenting today and I look forward to sharing these presentations with our teachers!

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I am appreciative of the upcoming weekend, as I have wanted to spend time assimilating and reflecting on the knowledge accumulated over the week.

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I appreciate how excited Amy is about helping her students understand and create poetry.

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I appreciate how excited Amy is about helping her students understand and create poetry.

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Someone else likes teacher archetypes as much as I do! :) Great lesson Darren.

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I appreciate Kourtnie, Sam, and Amy for working with me on our collaborative project. 

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I appreciate Kourtnie, Sam, and Amy for working with me on our collaborative project. 

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Online learning has straight up scarred me, buuuuuut I am legit enjoying this class with you all:)

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That heart lesson was amazing. It will be great for SEL, but can also work great for history content!

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I did not know this was a thing! I really like that it can be done at all grade levels and how we can think about stuff on the ground as materials for art! I also liked the note-taking strategy. Thank you, Jodi.

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Loved the favorite lessons today! Thanks to the presenters!

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The Land Art is very applicable for any grade and any level of art!

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Thank you to all the presenters for sharing amazing lessons today! I am so excited to take your ideas back to my classroom!

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I apologize to one of the groups I worked with today. I did not have all my facts clear in my mind before discussion.  I need to make sure I review carefully and have my facts correct before I contribute to discussion.  Sorry about that.

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I am appreciative of all the encouraging feedback received by my peers after the presentation.

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Love art- love any ideas that I can bring to my class. Thank you for sharing!

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Love art- love any ideas that I can bring to my class. Thank you for sharing!

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Thank you to my group for being kind and just nice to be around. 

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Thank you to my group for being kind and just nice to be around. 

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Thank you to the lesson presenter today! So many great ideas to take back to my classroom!

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The TAG peer feedback model that Jodi shared was awesome! :)

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So excited to try out the new ideas shared by our teachers today! Thanks for the great lessons!

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Thank you to everyone for being such a great audience during my presentation.

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Thank you to everyone for being such a great audience during my presentation.

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Thank you to all for making me feel more comfortable and confident speaking in class! Really enjoying our group dynamics! :) 

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Thank you to all for making me feel more comfortable and confident speaking in class! Really enjoying our group dynamics! :) 

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Sorry for walking away at times and turning my camera off; I can hear you all in my ears just to let you know! 

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Sorry for walking away at times and turning my camera off; I can hear you all in my ears just to let you know! 

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AHA! Really getting a hold on 3-2-1 & what, so what, what now! I can totally adapt these into my classroom routines and structure. Great tools for all of us to share and not have to reinvent the wheel.

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AHA! Really getting a hold on 3-2-1 & what, so what, what now! I can totally adapt these into my classroom routines and structure. Great tools for all of us to share and not have to reinvent the wheel.

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Thank you to all of the presenters today! You all did great!

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Thank you to all of the presenters today! You all did great!

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I'm sorry if I seemed distracted today. My wife had surgery on her wrist so I was trying to help her and do class. Tomorrow should be better. :)

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I'm sorry if I seemed distracted today. My wife had surgery on her wrist so I was trying to help her and do class. Tomorrow should be better. :)

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Thank you, Kathy, for letting us know that our group project may not need to be "done" by Friday. I appreciate knowing that the process is what is in important.

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I think I know what I'm doing the final group project. I'm looking to outline how I'd go about walking the students through an early stage empowering lesson in Government class.

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After watching Cindy's presentation, I loved the idea of having ONE rubric that students use so that they know what is expected!

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Appreciate small group discussion of the nightly reads and enjoy discussing and working with Sam and Sharon! Thank you!

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Appreciate small group discussion of the nightly reads and enjoy discussing and working with Sam and Sharon! Thank you!

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Sorry for not being able to form complete sentences in my small group culminating project group... I just couldn't see the connection but I DO NOW! Thank you for taking the time to explain it to me Amy, Lisa and Sam!

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Sorry for not being able to form complete sentences in my small group culminating project group... I just couldn't see the connection but I DO NOW! Thank you for taking the time to explain it to me Amy, Lisa and Sam!

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Happy to be working with such a great group in our final project! 

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Happy to be working with such a great group in our final project! 

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It's only TUESDAY! whooohoo! Thought it was Wednesday, so I get another whole day (to sit in front of my computer!) :) and be productive!

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It's only TUESDAY! whooohoo! Thought it was Wednesday, so I get another whole day (to sit in front of my computer!) :) and be productive!

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Thank you to the presenters again today. It is amazing that even though we teach various grade levels and content that you can learn new ideas and strategies from everyone. You all rocked it today!!

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Thank you to the presenters again today. It is amazing that even though we teach various grade levels and content that you can learn new ideas and strategies from everyone. You all rocked it today!!

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Thank you to the presenters! I love observing what others teach. You are all amazing!

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Sorry to my group for having to leave the meeting early.  Looking forward to meeting tomorrow to work on our project! You are all amazing teachers!

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My Aha moment: using 1 rubric! That way students really know and understand the expectations.

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Shout out to another amazing round of lesson presenters and to my awesome group for helping me better understand what our final project is going to be!

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Nearpod and Slow Reveal Graphs are AMAZING! Thank you so much for introducing these resources Heather and Lisa! I can't wait to start using them in my math classes :)

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Great ideas that I want to use in my classroom Hannah! : ) I love anything that assists me in being a better writing teacher. 

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Great ideas that I want to use in my classroom Hannah! : ) I love anything that assists me in being a better writing teacher. 

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Also- Love the reading ideas from Sharon! I do rotations and I try not to do worksheets that are pointless. Sometimes they slip in there though! hahah

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You were all awesome. I had a lot of takeaways from all your lessons.
Thank you again!

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Our group met over Zoom today and I feel great about the direction we are taking! I'm excited to find resources about our topic and appreciate the teamwork!

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Sorry I had to step away for part of Sharon's presentation. My insurance company was finally getting back to me about hail damage. Your presentation was sounding awesome and I'm sad I had to miss a part of it.

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Thank you for being willing to collaborate and bringing your talents to the group. I like our energy and willingness to ask questions and change if someone has a suggestion. Thanks, ladies.