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Change Is Needed…

May 17, 2019Amy Casaldi Current Affairs

I’ve spent the past several years considering how to best advocate for our educators, educator needs, and completing advocacy work from a local level to a wider state or national level.  Everyone’s advocacy work looks slightly different then the next

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Outdoor Education

April 17, 2019Amy Casaldi Uncategorized

Over a decade ago when I started teaching sixth grade one of my first questions were about the school’s science camp program.  I was teaching in the same district I had attended as a sixth grader and remembered the major

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What time does school start?

March 20, 2019Amy Casaldi Current Affairs, Education Policy

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about sleep schedules.  With the upcoming birth of my husband and I’s first child, and having friends with young kids things like feeding and nap schedules are something I find myself reading about a

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Student Growth and Effect Size

February 19, 2019Amy Casaldi Assessment, Professional Development

Recently, I had the pleasure to sit through a professional development session geared around quick formative assessments. Having taken other classes and even reading a few books with formative assessment ideas I felt prepared for the session. What I was

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Setting Goals

January 22, 2019Amy Casaldi Education, Life in the Classroom

Do you start the new year by setting goals for yourself? Perhaps it is one word that will be the theme of your year or a set of professional and personal goals. Do you do this with your students as

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My Colonial Williamsburg Experience

December 11, 2018Amy Casaldi Education, Professional Development

This past summer I had the privilege of being awarded a scholarship to attend a seven-day teacher institute with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.  As a fifth grade teacher, I can say that this summer professional development truly transformed my Social

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How do you show your students gratitude?

November 19, 2018Amy Casaldi Life in the Classroom, Love

You might find yourself reading this question or click on the title of this article because it puzzles you. Or perhaps you can immediately answer the question. There are lots of research studies to support gratitude and the positive effect

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The Power of Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences, Part Two

October 18, 2018Amy Casaldi Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Parent Involvment

Conferences have come and gone for myself and many educators I know, but districts that start later in the year or have conferences after Fall Break may still be in the midst of these important events. For those reading about

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The Power of Student Led Parent-Teacher Conferences, Part One

September 19, 2018Amy Casaldi Elementary, Uncategorized

A few years ago, after reading research about student reflections and goal setting, myself and a few teachers presented our findings to our administrator and proposed the idea of incorporating student-led conferences to our typical parent-teacher conference time.  The number

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Reflections on a Broken Teacher Cart

August 22, 2018Amy Casaldi Elementary, Life in the Classroom

It was a few days after the school year had ended and I was in my classroom.  I was working on finishing up my preparation for the first few weeks of the upcoming school year and gathering materials and resources

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