Megan Tillotson Megan Tillotson

Give Grace + Space

A motto to embrace, rolling with the ups and downs of student behavior and classroom life by embracing the mindset of giving students "grace and space". Each day students show up with seen and unseen backpacks that they wear. The one we don't see can still weigh on their shoulders. Students come tired (because upstairs neighbors stomp disrupting sleep), they come hungry and cranky. If I think about it, sometimes I enter my classroom tired, hungry or cranky, too! Embracing GRACE + SPACE allows me to have a plan when I'm met with unexpected behavior.

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3 Tips for Easy Computer Lab Decoration

How I designed my computer lab walls. I took inspiration from art galleries that have a lot of white space and several eye-catching pieces of artwork. Computers have such high-impact visuals already I wanted the walls in my computer lab to have a playful look but also something soft and visually calming to balance the energy of the computer screens and all that we do in the computer lab.

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