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COMING SOON... these are topics that I am working on!  Not enough hours in the day to address them all!

As a full time Science Teacher, Full time PhD student, Full Time Single Mother and grandmother, my head is full of writing streams - sadly I cannot blog in the shower, or I could manage to get all of my streaming consciousness on paper. Eventually I hope to be able to learn how to dictate to my phone and speed up the process.  Until then I am keeping a list of  topics running here - if there is some topic that readers would like me to do over another, let me know. It will help me to prioritize my ramblings.

"What came first the relationship or the expectation?" as inspired by Kim Campbell who I recently saw at the AMLE conference in Philadelphia.

"STEM and ELLs: Building CALP for Emergent Bilingual (Why every teacher is a language teacher)

"Peas and Carrots: Why NGSS and Common Core work together in every content" - Using STEM pedagogy across contents!

"Bringing Up Bilingual and Biliterate Students"

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