Home 2024 - Ashleigh's Education Journey

Last year my district moved from traditional grading to standards based grading. While I certainly see the merits of standards based grading, this has been an incredibly difficult process for me. There have been far too many days when I feel that I’m...

Every year I hear about dozens of great new websites. In a perfect world, I’d be able to try them all and utilize all of their great features. However, due to time and financial restraints, I have to pick and choose my very favorite sites to focus on...

Last weekend I started thinking about my Thanksgiving lesson plans, and I discovered a Thanksgiving product I had made in 2011. I remembered that I wasn’t crazy about the product to begin with, so I deactivated it from my TpT store. Unfortunately, rather...

Have you ever had a moment when every single students’ eyes were completely glazed over, and you were pretty sure no one actually heard what you were saying? That was me on Thursday. I was seven days into my government unit, and I thought we were doing...