first day

Make Your Ice-Breakers into Earth Shakers

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This will be my 25th year of teaching.  Add this to the years I attended school as a student and you will get 42 “first days.” 42 days of team-building activities and ice-breakers. During those 42 years, I estimate that I’ve played “Getting-to-Know-You” Bingo about 25 times.  24 of those times were not initiated by me. … Read more

Inspiring Note

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This note, according to an Instagram user, “M”, greeted him on his first day of work at Apple.  Jon Russell recently wrote about it in his column on Next Web, which you can see here.  Mr. Russell challenges other companies to follow suit, and I would like to see teachers do this as well.  What … Read more