Laura Thomas

I love my job- the people are amazing, I like the work, and generally we’re on the right side of history, organizationally speaking. Knowing I won’t get fired for posting wildly controversial things like “don’t zip tie children” & “facism is bad” is really just icing on the cake, you know?

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I graded ALL the papers that came in this week!! #EduSky #Teachers

Ep 2: A Flexible Seating Arrangement That Teachers Love Is there an ideal desk layout—easy to adapt for most class sizes and learning activities?

⚡🎧 Our 2nd School of Practice podcast episode is out!

In this week’s show, we tackle a classic teacher dilemma: DESK LAYOUTS.

Is there one to rule them all?

Monarch butterfly

Monarch butterfly on a purple flower. Black eyed Susans in the background

I’ve had a record number of these in my garden this year plus more bees than I’ve seen in years. Apparently tickseed and blue top vervain (I think that’s what that is?) are their favorites. 🌱

A vase filled with zinnias and lisianthus in pinks, oranges, and cream.

Everything in this vase started its life as a seed 🌱under my grow lights in February, which makes me inappropriately happy. #Garden

Routines, language, events, projects, or processes that become part of the identity of your class. Sometimes they carry over from year to year, sometimes they’re unique to a single class.

Speak to me of classroom rituals and traditions, #EduSky 🍎

What are your favorites?
How do you find time for them in when there's so much to do?

(Not that I’m condoning actual elephant eating. For these purposes, let’s consider this a life-size chocolate elephant.) 🐘

You know how to eat an elephant, right?

Big problems aren’t so hard if you break them into pieces.

I’m lucky to work with great people

I had so much fun writing this!!

Good morning 🌱
#Garden
#Herbs
#Heliotrope

Flowers? Coffee? Chart pack? Must be kicking off week 2 of the ExEd Intensive @auneeducation.bsky.social! Up this weekend: Leading Inclusion in the Nature Based Classroom. #Edusky

When you’re under a boil order and also live in a house with 2 other people with ADD…

Love that book

We try to get back to folks in 2-3 weeks, but sometimes it takes a bit longer. It’s ok to reach out again to be sure, though!

This little dude (Bluebird) made his first landing right onto my AC unit this morning. He was not thrilled. #Birds

My little deck garden makes me very happy. 🌱

#EduInFocus culture building takes time- folks need to know one another well enough to feel safe de-privatizing their practice, and then they need lots of structures positive experiences to reinforce that safety. Don’t rush or force participation.

From teachengagingela on IG: “Yes, I know The Great Gatsby has a musical now. BUT this intro activity for teaching chapter 1 still HITS EVERY TIME💚”

#ITeachEnglish #HighSchoolTeacher

Tiny garden.

My daughter and her friends need 75 more followers. If you’re on the clock app, can you do me a solid? www.tiktok.com/@the.senior....

Y'all, new teachers hear plenty of advice, but what about the unconventional wisdom that can help get them through their first years? What surprising advice would you share with them? #NewTeachers #EduSky

Merlin is the gateway drug of the birding world.

What I learned from my sabbatical:
1. Exercise makes every day better.
2. Deferred maintenance isn’t a good idea when it comes to one’s health.
3. Having time to think deeply & write about an idea is a gift.
4. Visiting teachers in the classrooms is the most important research I can do. #EduSky

To which specific crazy are you referring?

And inverse doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.

Explaining “correlation doesn’t equal causation” shouldn’t be necessary at this stage. And yet…