Ashley Stanley

If your desk isn’t trashed, are you really using evidence?

It's Friday the 13th. Here, have a sea lamprey mouth.

📊Research has found that classrooms differ a great deal in quality of discussions--and those differences impact comprehension development. Please see below for examples of differences. For a self-assessment and guide to quality talk about text, see amazon.com/Quality-Talk-A…

Things I have never ever regretting doing at the start of the year: -Sentence Writing -Paragraph Writing -Listening to every kid read a grade level passage individually -Reviewing multiplication facts

Five classrooms in six years has taught me a lot about: ✅ making spaces feel bigger ✅decluttering ✅student traffic patterns ✅ getting on without a teacher desk ✅ leaving space for the kids Still a little wok left to do, but I think this one is going to be the best yet.

@MrC_A2 Happy for you!

Got my name on the wall of the school my family helped start… Been a student, a lunch supervisor, an after care counselor, a summer camp counselor, a substitute, an after school Spanish teacher… And now I’m back, a middle school science teacher. Unbelievable.

@EverSong01 Thank you!

@Ashodactyl I read your story online about your district 65 experience. I grew up in Evanston back in the day, and went through district 65, now in a surrounding suburb. It appears to have been Evanston’s great loss that you decided to leave. Best of luck in your new district!

First day of summer break! ☀️ I will be teaching 5th grade (again!) in a new district this fall. I’m really looking forward to a fresh start and am so excited about my new colleagues and admin! They have already done so much to make my transition smooth. 🤍💙

One of the most legit educators I’ve ever heard speak. So excited to have this literary resource in the world and in my hands this Oct!

The answer was yes, so here we go. This is rock snot, aka didymo, a microscopic, single-cell algae that can grow in thick mats in clean, high-quality stream and riverbeds. This can be a problem for native species, including trout, which need these areas to live and reproduce.

Mandatory reading!

@sam_aye_ahm Explaining who Al Gore is to my students 😂

I love this thread so much!

The @MichiganDNR fire safety emails are so sad. So many beautiful places are vulnerable right now.

@historysandoval 😍

Several suggested I should make a list so I can better see fellow educator’s posts. If you see this and are a fellow educator please drop your favorite emoji 🌈✨🍩🦇✌🏻❤️‍🔥 🪲🐿 below so I can start generating my list. TY. Also if I’m not already following you let me know.

😭 ❤️ 🌟 All of the feelings.

I had Ss fill out an anonymous "course evaluation" as a bell ringer on the last day. They gave some great advice! -More time on big projects -Use fewer elementary tactics to control the class -"Grade my late work" clipboard was a success & my fave-- Keep being so dedicated 💙

So, I wasn’t really sure what to expect when the bell rang at 3:05 on the last day of 8th grade. I thought maybe a fire alarm, maybe the kids would be jumping for joy. No. They stormed out of the room cheering and suddenly burst into tears and broke my fricken heart.

@MarcusLuther6 But I still want independent choice reading to be a thing! It always gets short changed.

@MarcusLuther6 I try to connect the clubs to a short whole class novel and we do a lot of related reading and writing assignments (I.e articles and short stories) as a whole class concurrently, so I can be explicit and we can practice the skills/standards necessary. Still working on this.