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Preparing for the New School Year – Part 1: Self-Care
If you’re not yet mentally prepared to return to school, you’re not alone. It was a tough year, and the summer seemed to fly by faster than usual. That’s where self-care can help get you back on track and ready for a new year in the classroom. Here’s what you need to...
Tips to Keep Cool in a Hot Classroom
As students and educators head back to school, an uninvited visitor is joining them: summer heat. Much of the country is experiencing a late summer heatwave, sending temperatures to possible record highs. Teaching students in hot, uncomfortable classrooms is...
Liability, Collision, & Comprehensive Coverage 101
You got a new car—or a “new” used car. Now you have to figure out your car insurance. Here’s what you need to know about the most common types of auto coverage: liability and coverage for damage to your auto (comprehensive and collision). Liability Coverage -...
Why Moving Over for Emergency Vehicles is SO Important
You hear sirens and see flashing lights. There’s only one thing to do. Pull over. There’s a reason you’re moving out of the way. Even a few minutes delay can be a matter of life and death when you’re traveling by ambulance. The same holds true if a first...
Dorm Cleaning Tips
The typical college dorm room is pretty small. That makes it easy to keep clean, right? Not necessarily. With studying, classes, socializing, etc., it’s easy to neglect a room and let the mess pile up. Since a clean room is easier to study (and live) in, you’ll want...
Household Dangers to Your Fur Babies
Like our real children, there isn’t much we wouldn’t do for our fur babies. They give us so much love, and they trust us to keep them fed, sheltered, and safe. But did you know, you might be putting them in danger without even knowing it? Some common household items...
Do You Keep Your College Student on Your Policy?
Your student is headed to college out-of-state - or across the state. It’s a milestone, and you’re helping them set up all of the necessary items associated with that big move, furniture, textbooks, food, cleaning supplies, etc. In the midst of all of your...
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Written by Casey Keyser, MSEA Third Grade Teacher The teacher world loves to have new “buzz words” as the educational pendulum swings from side to side. I know that a lot of people have heard the term social and emotional learning and/or SEL in the last couple of...
Casey’s Top Teacher Tech Tips & Tricks
Written by Casey Keyser, MSEA Third Grade Teacher Let’s chat about technology! Integrating technology into the classroom is my passion. It is an amazing way to engage your students in the content and to complete activities you wouldn’t have the means to do otherwise....
What is Rubbernecking?
It’s tempting to look when you drive by an accident. You slow down and glance back, taking your eyes off the road for a brief moment. It’s a practice called rubbernecking, and it is a form of distracted driving. The term rubbernecking dates back to the late 1890s, to...