Father of 6 | Teacher | @millersvilleu & @penn_state alum | @TeachersFirst & @MySciLife Consultant | @6BowerLIC

Joined June 2013
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District 3 Class 2A baseball FINAL: Halifax 10, Camp Hill 0. Eli Miller allows one hit in the shutout. He retired 15 batters in a row after a leadoff double. @WildcatsHalifax are district champs for the first time since 2005.
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Miller closes what he started. Halifax celebrates 10-0 victory over Camp Hill for the District 3 2A baseball title. @pa_preps
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Instead of bringing in guest speakers to talk about teaching and inspire us with anecdotes, why not have them actually teach? Put them in a real classroom and let’s watch the magic happen. Let us see how they plan, how they adjust in the moment, how they respond to student questions, manage behavior, and assess understanding. Now that’s the kind of professional development that would actually inspire me.
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Absolute SCENES here at Pegula 🤯 #WeAre #HockeyValley
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Two teachers can teach the same curriculum with the same activities—and get completely different results. Because in the end, it’s the teacher who brings the curriculum to life. There’s no way around that.
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That's a B1G Playoff DUB!! 😤 #WeAre #HockeyValley
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Let's knock it off with the all-or-nothing hot takes. Good teachers utilize tech ONLY when it gets them the results they want. Foolish teachers (and schools) use tech as their blanket strategy. And tweets like this are rage bait. Don't advocate for bans that take tools out of the hands of teachers and students. Advocate for more responsible instructional decisions based on pedagogy and best practice.
Elementary students do NOT need iPads.
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What if your students became museum curators? In our new Canva Education activity, Make a Mini Museum, students research an influential historical figure and design a digital exhibition showcasing artifacts, biographies, and properly cited sources. It’s a powerful way to blend research, media literacy, ethical citation, and student voice in one ready-to-use experience. Explore it here: bit.ly/4s1zkPG
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FIRST. TEAM. ALL. HANDS. All the angles of Gavin McKenna's OT-winner for your viewing pleasure!! #SCTop10
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❤️ Happy Valentines Day to the best wrestling fans in the nation! Here's a little gift from us to you! We hope you enjoyed the show last night, we sure did! 🎇 #PSUwr
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12 FREE social media-inspired Google Slides templates! 📢Yelp 🎧Spotify ▶️YouTube 📺Netflix 👤LinkedIn 🐤Twitter 🤳Snapchat 🎬TikTok 📸Instagram 👍Facebook 📌Pinterest Get 'em here: ditchthattextbook.com/social… #DitchBook #TechLAP
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I will never understand why so much middle school writing isn’t built around experimentation, challenge, fun, and creativity. Middle schoolers love to play, laugh, take risks, and test boundaries. When we make most writing overly serious, we turn them away from what they do best: playing with language, experimenting with literary devices and vocabulary, and rising to creative challenges.
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If you choose not to make your children do hard things they don’t like when they’re 5, you’ll really struggle to make them do hard things they don’t like when they’re 15. You’re also still likely to be trying to make them do hard things when they’re 25, and still living with you.
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"Most programs nowadays are designed to be successful in curriculum adoption processes, not in the classroom." 🎯🎯🎯
"Programs are bloated with useless activities that do nothing to promote learning, and few programs these days have children actually reading real books or tackling content of substance." "I have heard it said that most programs nowadays are designed to be successful in curriculum adoption processes, not in the classroom. I concur with that statement." "We need safeguards in place" on the quality of materials. @HollyLanePhD
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These READING CHALLENGES have been popular among teachers! Students can train to be secret agents, detectives, pirates, astronauts, and more. You can find all six challenges here: briantolentino.com/how-well-…
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👉Looking for something fun and free for #Science? "Tech Out" myscilife.org. My kids love it! 🎥youtube.com/watch?v=nOSgcf2K… #STEM #Scichat #SciComm #ScienceEd #NGSS #EdTech #NSTA #EduTwitter #K12 #EdtechChat

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**Vocabulary Activities!*** Many of my students are intimidated by “big words.” I found that if I focused on one word a day, and allowed students to experiment with words via low-stakes writing prompts, the intimidation disappeared. The purpose of these activities is for students to play and experiment with language. One word a day is not the most “efficient” system for learning vocabulary. However, one word a day allows students to build momentum and confidence when it comes to acquiring vocabulary. Link here: briantolentino.com/vocabular…
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