This Twitter thread started by @heymrsbond includes amazing ideas for activities to do with students during the first five days of school. I would love to share your first days activities if you are willing to share! 

NPR's Rachel Martin writes: "As part of teacher appreciation month, Morning Edition asked NPR's audience to write a poem about teachers who have had an impact on their lives. We put out this call a week before the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, so the majority of contributors are not reflecting on that horrific day but a late addition did reflect that loss. We received over 300 responses, and NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander took lines from submissions to create a community poem. This poem is dedicated to all teachers, but especially to Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles, fourth grade teachers who lost their lives at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde." 

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else," Yogi Berra said. This is so true with teacher evaluations - many of us don't take time to think about what our goals and hopes and plans and systems are for the teacher evaluation process, so we end up feeling like the process hasn't helped us meet our school goals and hasn't supported our teachers' growth. In this 11-minute video, I guide you step-by-step with planning for a strong year of teacher evaluations and I also created this guide that you can access here.