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My Take on Toronto Freedom Festival (Guest Post)
This year, I attended my first Toronto Freedom Festival and Global Marijuana March at Queen’s Park in Toronto. The event boasts a peaceful history with no arrests and an estimated 3.5 million dollar impact on the city’s economy. The official festival website states: “In 2007, TFF was developed to offer the necessary infrastructure for the…
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How To Fit Small Group Instruction Into Your Routine
Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Before we get started today, if you haven’t already, please take a moment to complete this survey. Thanks! And now for today’s tip, How to Fit Small Group Instruction into Your Routine. 1) Remove Timelines Instead of having a specific time and duration for tasks, allow your students to have some autonomy…
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A.P.E. Strategy Survey (Guest Post)
Greetings Chase readers, I was very happy to come across the Teaching Tip Tuesday post which talked about using the A.P.E. strategy for teaching kids how to properly answer a question. I am a recent teacher graduate doing an inquiry about A.P.E. and having a very hard time finding research and literature on the effectiveness…
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Love to Hear Mandy Siegfried "Speak"
The public library is a great resource for audio books. I go there often to find stuff to listen to in the car. It’s great being able to immerse yourself in a story while driving. If often makes the commute seem shorter and gives you something to look forward to as you want to know…
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Teaching Tip – Small Group Instruction
In a previous Teaching Tip Tuesday post we looked at how you can divide students up according to their reading abilities. Today we will look at how this same strategy can be effective across the curriculum. Try dividing students up according to learning styles. I have a group of students in my class who are very…
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It’s Free Comic Book Day
Today is the 10th anniversary of Free Comic Book Day! It’s a great day where comic book stores everywhere will be having special events, artist signings, and they will be giving away free comics. Young children will also be able to get a free Green Lantern HeroClix toy. Here is a video with more information…
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Mala Reignz Interview Wraps Up
7 Chase: “All right, we are back with Mala Reignz. If you’ve missed any of the show so far, you can download it for free, read it from the very beginning on the blog, or stream it with the player at the bottom of this post. So, we just heard the track ‘I’m the Bomb,’…
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Mala Reignz – Scholar, Rapper, and Musician
This is Part 2 of the Mala Reignz interview I conducted for DOPEfm. Go back and read Part 1, download the podcast for free, stream it with the player below, or just pick it up here and keep reading. Thanks! Chase: “We’re back with Mala Reignz. We just played ‘Dum Da Dum (OMG).’ I so…
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Mala Reignz Interview
Chase: “All right everybody, this is Chase March. Daddy J is on the boards. And we are lucky enough to have Mala Reignz on the phone. You can download this show for free, stream it with the player below, or just continue reading. Thanks! Chase: “I first took notice of your music with OMG and…
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Throw Out Your Rigid Classroom Schedule and Your Students Will Work Harder
Image via Wikipedia No one likes being told when and how to do something. I know that I sure don’t. If I have a task that I need to do, I usually figure out a way to do it effectively and efficiently. I’m sure our students work much in the same way. That is, if we’d…