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	Here's a a download to get you going as you start literacy and/or math stations in your K-3 classroom. Click Here for your free Getting Started With Stations guide.


	When administrators make expectations for teachers clear, amazing classroom environments are a result. Click Here for a checklist with photos (from that school) of expectations for classroom environment.


	Try these Literacy Work Stations icons to help you get started with a management board. Click Here. Or be creative and make your own!


	Ever wonder how Debbie began consulting and writing? Click Here for a blog post that describes her journey.


	To manage time and noise level in your classroom, try a fun Music Wand like Debbie uses on her videos. Click Here to find out more.


	You might want to have a "Recording Studio" station for oral reading fluency using an iPad or other recording device. Debbie has a free downloadable "Fluency Rubric" from her book Making the Most of Small Groups. Get it Here!


	Have you seen or tried Dry Erase Tape? It has lots of fun uses! Check it out!


	Debbie created a personal ABC board book for her grandchild, Chloe! Make one at Pint Size Productions!

Reading teachers need to read! Here a few books Debbie is currently reading:

I'll Be Your Blue Sky
by Marisa de los Santos

In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
by Amy Gary

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
by John McPhee

Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
by Julia Cameron

Winter Solstice
by Elin Hilderbrand

Soul Keeping: Caring for the Most Important Part of You
by John Ortberg

Breaking Busy
by Alli Worthington

Best Staged Plans
by Claire Cook

Having a life beyond the classroom provides grounding and balance. Give yourself permission to play and expand your learning outside of school. Here are some of the things Debbie is doing and creating to inspire her:

Riding the rail trails in PA. TrailLink.com.

Making homemade applesauce and soups from produce at the farm stand.
Scholl Orchards.

Planning, planting a new garden.

Painting E-course
with Kelly Rae Roberts

Painting with Annie Sloan Chalk Paints