Musings from Mrs. Galvan

Today was FAST. 20 minute classes. I did not introduce myself or memorize names or read my syllabus or teach a lesson or do a get to know you activity... all of which are decent (well except read syllabus aloud) ways to spend that all important first day of school. I taught two procedures: Jazz hand = slow down Pat head = I need to go potty And, I introduced and help them set up their math blogs. We are a GAFE school so my students (like me) use blogger. I went through these steps with them: 1. Sign into blogger with your HW google drive account 2. Give your blog a catchy name and appealing background. Leave out personal details like your last name, the name of the school, your soccer team’s name, address, etc 3. Under settings, edit the description of your blog. Same advice as above regarding personal details. 4. Under settings, comments/posts, change the show word verification to off. 5. Under settings, mobile & email, enter your email address in the box for...

Today I am thankful for long two year old naps, my husband, kids programming on Netflix (new Daniel Tiger!) and a seamless, early bedtime. Why? Because I had time and made a lot of headway on my To Do List... I updated one syllabus and adjusted my lesson calendar for Algebra. I made a more attractive front page for my Canvas site with colorful links, as well as do a bit of boring file maintenance on canvas, the most interesting of which was creating a Create & Reflect (Blog) module to group all the prompts, tips and assignments. BTW these buttons were NOT easy to make. I used word art in publisher and saved each as a photo. Anyways, the more relevant progress I made was Standards Based Grading related. I am already committed to Active Grade . I watched most of the videos on their helpful Youtube channel . Still though, this decision did not prevent multiple sleepless nights spent with mind racing, consumed by crazy spreadsheets. Tonight I am hopeful that I can go to bed an...