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One of my greatest joys as a teacher is when a student’s light bulb flickers on and a “Oh, NOW I get it!” moment occurs. I’ve enjoyed many of those moments over the years in my classroom with my students. To make them happen, it takes the kind of curriculum and resources I love to design—engaging, rigorous, creative, and real-world— with lessons and activities that are meaningful to students and produce the results you want.

But creating a collection of stellar teaching resources and top-shelf ideas comes at a great cost: Many late nights. Entire weekends. Missed events. Missed sleep.

That’s why I’m so glad that you’ve stopped by today. My resources and teaching ideas are designed to save your precious time and help make your teaching life more successful. I’ve been teaching and creating over two decades, so even though this website is in its infancy, the idea and resource collection housed here will be growing. It’s my hope that you’ll return to check out what’s been added on a regular basis. If you’d like, every new post, every time and sleep and weekend saver, can be emailed right to your inbox. I’m looking forward to working with you and helping you and your students experience more light bulb moments than ever before!

All the best!

Maryann

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Customer Reviews

Of Mice and Men Interactive Notebook:
"This was absolutely the best thing I used all year! I used this product with my resource Language Arts class. These are students who are in high school, but are reading at the fifth grade level. I am still required to teach them "Of Mice and Men." As a result of using this interactive notebook, my special education kids knew this book like the back of their hands! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!"
Maggie C

"This made teaching OM&M in my ISNs so easy. I used every part of the unit. Thanks so much for the doing the work for me. Great resource."
Michael P.

Back to School Ice Breaker {First Day of Class Student Information Activity}

"Students loved this. It was a great way to get to know them and assess their writing at the same time."
Catherine T.

"My student's loved the student selfie! What a fun activity and I love that I was able to edit it! Thank you!"
Anna H.

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