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The Importance of Fine Motor Skills

September 5, 2019 By Lisa Van Gemert Leave a Comment

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Our kids can’t cut. It’s costing us a lot of money. It’s costing them a lot of learning. Normally, I don’t write articles for the website with lots of citation to research, saving that for journal articles. However, I’ve put some in here because I think it’s important to recognize that this isn’t just my […]

Filed Under: PARENTING, TEACHING

3 Steps to an Effective Apology

August 15, 2019 By Lisa Van Gemert 1 Comment

  As a teacher, one of the most important skills my students need to develop to have healthy relationships with their peers is to learn how to offer an apology. A mumbled, “Sorry” with the head down and the toe of the shoe scuffing the floor is not what I mean. A facetious, forced, blithe, […]

Filed Under: PARENTING, STRATEGIES, TEACHING

The Epic Teacher Resource List

July 18, 2019 By Lisa Van Gemert 3 Comments

Have I got a mega list of teacher resources and ideas for you today, my friends.   On July 16th, I was in Houston (Katy, to be precise) facilitating a GT professional development for the Houston GT Co-op. There were 300 awesome teachers there. I asked them all to share a teaching tip, a tech […]

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Summer Learning Lures: The Alternative to the Summer Assignment

July 3, 2019 By Lisa Van Gemert Leave a Comment

Look, I get it. We want kids to read. We want to avoid the dreaded “summer slide.” We want kids prepared for the work they’re going to have. But Friends, there’s a better way than packets and assigned tasks that go undone, leading students to start a new year behind and feeling either defiant or […]

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Why Schools Should Ditch Summer Assignments

June 27, 2019 By Lisa Van Gemert 6 Comments

It’s summer vacation where I live right now (shout out to my Southern Hemisphere peeps in the middle of winter), but if you peek over the shoulder of tens of thousands of students theoretically on vacation right now, you’d never know it. All over, instead of being outside climbing trees or curled up in a […]

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Why We Need to Manage Expectations of Schools

June 6, 2019 By Lisa Van Gemert 2 Comments

In speaking of the efforts of Britain’s Royal Air Force, who were then tirelessly fighting the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” School isn’t a war, but it sure feels like it sometimes, and teachers […]

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