Indie Education Consultant. Resident Blogger/Social Media Marketing Support and Group Moderator for Edutopia.org. (Also a wife and a mom.) Former Elementary School Principal with a B.A. in Child Development and a M.Ed in Educational Administration. Started my career as a Kindergarten teacher then promoted to Project Director of a Language and Literacy program. Served as an elementary school principal for 14 years...a challenging position that I really loved! Worked for Kaplan K-12 Educational Corporation as a Middle School Instructional Literacy Coach in Los Angeles Unified.
2nd Vice President at a Literacy non-profit board in my town.
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Blog Posts
Welcome to Edutopia's New Teacher Academy! I'm so happy to be here sharing my passion to support and mentor new teachers. I hope that you will join us for all five key topics that we'll cover in this series, because that's our mission: offering resources to new teachers. To collaborate in more...
Read More.Dear New Teacher,
Congratulations! You made it through the holiday rush, classroom busyness and maybe even some college class craziness. If you've come this far, you should give yourself a hug and feel a great sense of accomplishment.
Read More.A few weeks ago while discussing a topic for the next new teacher chat on Twitter, a pre-service teacher sent me a private tweet. She asked if I knew the best way a principal should work to support new teachers on their campus. I responded by...
Read More.Mentoring matters. It matters, because it offers acceptance, guidance, instructional support, hope, and optimism to teachers -- and particularly for new teachers. The act of mentoring is a part of the fabric of so many educational institutions. Yet it's still a piece that's missing at our...
Read More.Teachers around the world are gearing up for the new school year -- but the experience is going to be vastly different for new teachers. Where an experienced teacher has the knowledge of what worked and what didn't, a new teacher is going to be bombarded with tons of new info and the need to...
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Welcome to our fifth and final week of New Teacher Boot Camp! Today we're going to be exploring blogging. Not only for students, but for educators as well.
Read More.Editor's note: Unfortunately, Wetoku is no longer available. Lisa Dabbs suggests trying out Skype's side-by-side functionality to achieve a similar result. Since Skype has no built-in recording function, there are a variety of third-party software options you can use. Lisa...
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Week 3: Using StoryBird in the Classroom
Welcome to New Teacher Boot Camp! Today we're going to be exploring StoryBird...
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Week 2: Using Voicethread in the Classroom
Welcome to our second week of New Teacher Boot Camp!
Today we're going to be exploring...
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Welcome to the first week of New Teacher Boot Camp! If you would like to participate, please register: New...
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