michelle strom

Teacher turned storyteller. Into good coffee, bad jokes, and oxford commas.

[michellestrom]

veteran teacher: It's going to get better. It'll get easier.

first year teacher: Okay.... That sounds fake but okay.

[edukaition]

EDD: What is your least favorite education buzz word?

[allisonunsupervised]

DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA 

[grayer]

DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA

[positivelypersistentteach]

PLC’s  Personal Learning Communities - not at all what I thought it would be.  JUST DATA DATA DATA DATA.

[missteeeee-deactivated20191001]

Transparency

[artedish]

Cross-curricular. Code word for: teach ELA during art class… always and forever. If you miss out on teaching the actual content of your subject… that’s ok, they’ll be fine

[teachertotodile-deactivated2017]

“Best practices” (said in a very specific person’s voice)

[edukaition]

@teachertotodile that’s mine too! And it definitely has a lot to do with the defensiveness that often accompanies it. You hit the nail right on the head.

[tunedintoteaching]

DATA.

blegh.

[ordinarily-beautiful]

date and best practices both make me want to bang my head against the wall.

[andimtheteacher]

PBIS. For the love of God, it’s starting to bring out violent tendencies in staff meetings.

[michellestrom]

Starting my Monday

with coffee in bed, a new candle that smells like a god damn bakery, AND positive/constructive feedback from the first draft of my thesis.

[michellestrom]

First line, first reading, last semester: "As we move through graduate school, we learn more and more about less and less until we know everything about nothing." 🆘 #SuperBowlSunday

[michellestrom]

Call me, 🍑 me if you wanna reach me.

@mmmichelle 

[michellestrom]

Can your classroom be better?

Teachers: what administrative, financial and/or physical barriers would you like to see eliminated in your school? How can we create classrooms that are brain--friendly learning environments for all students?

Join @uscteacher‘s #InclusiveSpaces campaign and share your voice.

How to participate

Write a blog post that follows one of these prompts: 

How can today's classrooms become inclusive learning environments?

What barriers (physical, administrative, financial) would you like to see eliminated that could help classrooms become more inclusive learning environments?

This is why my classroom is an inclusive learning environment: _______________

Include the campaign CTA to be shared on social and on the university’s blog:

This article is in support of #InclusiveSpaces, a ​campaign run through USC Rossier School of Education's online teaching degree​ that advocates for classroom design that meets the needs of all learners. ​

[michellestrom]

There's a gap between what research says is an effective classroom and what real classrooms look like.

Join USC Rossier School of Education (@uscteacher)’s ‪#‎InclusiveSpaces‬ campaign to shine a light on that gap and help create classrooms that are designed for all learners.

How to participate: usctea.ch/InclusiveSpaces

[michellestrom]

Featuring Into It. Over It., The Hotelier, Allison Weiss, Tigers Jaw

Tonight Mike and I turned @buzzfeed’s punk band recommendations into a Spotify playlist because of course.

Enjoy 17 hours of ear magic.

[michellestrom]

When it comes to teaching students with special needs, it's important to focus on the physical environment of the classroom.

I interviewed @uscteacher alumni for the Association of American Educators.

[npr]

Like many first-year teachers, Luisana Regidor has a lot on her mind. There are lesson plans to write and papers to grade as well as a dozen other things: evaluations, observations, fundraisers, class trips. It’s overwhelming.

“Last Wednesday, I left here and I got in my car and I just cried,” says Regidor, who teaches U.S. history at Schurz High School in Chicago. “Everything was hitting me at once.”

Regidor, 31, says other teachers warned her that the first year could be rough, but in September she was full of ideas and energy.

“Then, six weeks in, it happened,” says Regidor. “Last Wednesday, I definitely felt like I should probably throw in the towel and do something else.”

Regidor isn’t alone in that feeling or its timing. One in ten teachers will leave the classroom by the end of their first year, and teachers are particularly vulnerable in October and November.

Ellen Moir, CEO of the New Teacher Center, which runs mentor programs in roughly 200 districts nationwide, has decades of anecdotes to show that October hits hard. She’s even got a name for this time of year: The Disillusionment Phase.

Hey, New Teachers, It’s OK To Cry In Your Car

Illustration: LA Johnson/NPR

[academicssay]

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[michellestrom]

Digital Spaces: 12 Best Practices for Multimedia Learning

Design online course content by following best practices to reduce students' cognitive load and prevent the words, pictures, and media from over-stimulating and inhibiting learning.

It’s pretty cool when your personal, professional and academic interests align. Here’s an article I wrote for Edutopia on multimedia learning + digital pedagogy.

[uscteacher-blog]

The Science of Classroom Design

Students spend an average of 12,000 hours in the classroom throughout their lifetime. Those hours have a significant impact on their learning and behavior — studies say so. 

We created a data visualization to show you how.

Brought to you by USC Rossier’s Masters of Arts (MAT) Online Teaching Degree

[nevver]

Cognitive biases

[uscteacher-blog]

Students who are exposed to more daylight in the classroom score 26% higher on math and reading tests than those with less exposure to light.

The Science of Classroom Design (via uscteacher)

[skillsne]

The fourth largest religion.

[michellestrom]

I’m converting.

[michellestrom]

Yes.