Ms. Tepler

“We want real rap music” a student yells as I play Tribe Called Quest.

I confused gametes and zygotes in my lesson today 🙃🤦🏻‍♀️

To all the single parents out there: no matter the behavior of your children, their teachers see you and your successes.

Anyone have a good reason why we still make 12 year olds weigh themselves in gym class? Seems ridiculous to me that this is still a practice when they get tested on so many other aspects of fitness... #physed #edchat

Cells make up tissue, which make up organs, which make up our body. This is part of a standard my kids are graded on. To remember CTOB, I had kids remember the phrase Cats Take Over Bangor....which I’m pretty sure is a @StephenKing book?

It’s always been interesting to me how people are terrified when they find bugs in their produce. Obviously remove and wash before you eat, but its just evidence that life can be sustained on it! Food that is grown with care should be attractive to critters!

Sooo they have Klingon and High Valyrian on DuoLingo but not Somali? @duolingo why do you have more fake languages than African languages?

Too real

Lessons in the first weeks of teaching: make a comment bucket and kids will pump your ego

Can you even fathom the fearlessness of a 7th grade boy who is out of the closet in Lewiston, ME sharing to the entire clas on the first day of school that his favorite thing to do for fun is do his makeup? Now THAT is awesome. These kids are cool as hell.

Maybe one day I’ll stop liking my new superintendent’s tweets....but today ain’t the day.

Absolutely! Lewiston gets such a bad rap, but it is constantly changing and progressing. The Lewiston I know is different than the Lewiston of 5 years ago, and is probably different from the Lewiston we will have in the future.

My first day of school as a teacher is this coming Wednesday! Man o man I’m jazzed to nerd out! @pbsteachers

table 3 for sure

Hired for my first year round teaching job! Any suggestions to consider when negotiating and signing a contract? @teacher2teacher @MAINETOY #edchat

Summer School Week 2 on deck: Popsicle melting to study conservation of mass, bottle rockets for force and motion, meter stick horseshoe tossing for research practices. #summerschool #summerfun

I had so much fun at the Burundi cultural festival yesterday evening! We have so much talent in our @CityPortland community. Did you know that Portland, ME is home to the second largest diaspora of Burundians in America? Burundi Heritage=Maine Heritage #burundi #culture

Wow! So much support from this post. Thank you so much for your suggestions! I'm now super excited to start summer session on Monday. I love the teaching community! <3 @MAINETOY @teacher2teacher