Six months ago, as part of my induction process to clear my teacher credential, I had to have a mentor teacher observe me giving a lesson and provide feedback. From Science is WEIRD's free Egan education workshops, which I'm a little obsessed with, I knew that I wanted to do a lesson that was a ...
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Minimalist Grammar + Mechanics
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Two years ago, I started my student teaching in high school physics. A year and a half ago, I got my teaching credential and began working part time for a California charter school. Last summer, I decided that when school started in the fall, I was going to try working full time while still ...
Reading Chains
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There is one goal that I have as a homeschooling parent that rises above all others. Okay, I mean, as a PARENT, I have lots of other goals that I think are more important....that they become empathetic adults, that they know how to work hard, that they visit me on holidays....However, as a ...
History Bingo
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A couple years ago, I was doing my student teaching and was not able to be involved much in my children's homeschooling. I had to simplify every subject considerably so that they could do it on their own. This history bingo was the greatest success of the whole experiment. Each week I would pick a ...
2024 U.S. Presidential Election Lap Book
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I created my first presidential election lap book in 2016, making this my third iteration. I'm flattered by how many people asked if I would be updating it for 2024! With the first debate tomorrow, this definitely took me a little longer than planned, but it's ready! You can also get my ...
2024 U.S. Presidential Election Cards
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It's hard to believe I've been creating and sharing resources for so long, but I shared these presidential election cards for the first time EIGHT years ago! At the time, my oldest was only 6. The next time I do this, he will be able to vote! 🤯 The election cards themselves are the exact same as the ...
Division Practice Sheets
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Recently, a reader reached out and asked if I had any division practice sheets similar to my multiplication practice sheets. I didn't, but that was easily remedied! Recently, I've been thinking about how to market and promote a new, non-education endeavour and it has left me feeling unmotivated. I ...
10 Lessons Learned as a Homeschool Teacher in Public School
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I have been homeschooling my own kids for 9 years. In the past year, I decided to go back to school to earn my Masters of Education and California teacher's license so that I can work for a homeschool charter. As part of my program, I had to complete 600 hours (nearly 4 months full-time) of student ...
10 Lessons Learned My First Year as an FLL Coach
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This was my first year co-coaching two FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams and what an adventure this season has been! In the end, both of our teams qualified for Regionals and the team of mostly older kids ended up winning the Rising Star Award. At regionals, that same team came in third in the robot ...
Spike Prime Challenge: Lifting a Square
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In the future, I'm planning to write a lot more "challenges" for the Spike Pime robot. However, this is the last in a series of 6 that I'm putting together before I start coaching a FIRST LEGO League challenge team. I feel like kids who compete the 5 original Spike Prime Tutorials plus the 6 ...
Michelle has a PhD in Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor's Degree from the California Institute of Technology. 