Learn with Mel Hern

  This teacher is ready for summer break! How about you?  Do not act like I am the only one ready to get wild and hang from a chandelier. 😂  I think we can all agree it has been a year for the books, well, maybe a digital book. :)  I know many of us had to become online educators at the drop of a hat! Wow, are we amazing. We were definitely dealt our fair share of craziness this past school year but somehow we soldiered on and are ending it like the champs we are. It never ceases to amaze me how resilient, how flexible, supportive, intelligent, and strong that we all are as educators. Whatever is thrown at us, we always manage to pivot until we find success. Yes!👏 That being said, it is almost that time... to stop the caregiving that is innately found in us teachers and start finding the care for ourselves. The time is now to do whatever it is we want to do, no holding back.  As I get older, I start to see my time on earth quickly passing and I keep thin...

  If you have been a little stressed about your students, don't fret. I think I might have the answer for you. I say hop on board the boomlearning express! This tool is amazing and will not only benefit the students but will help you, as a teacher too with automatic grading and a library full of interactive pre-made lessons from PreK-12th grade! Are you an educator who has dealt with the struggles of virtual learning?  If so, you might be thinking that these past several months have not been the best for learning. In fact, you might have seen the drop already as students were forced to take assessments this school year. You might also be wondering how your students can continue growing their brains, and recoup all that they have missed, over the upcoming summer months. After all, many of us in the educational world know this time as the "summer slide" where students regress during their lengthy time off of school.  Although the validity of such regression is definitely qu...

  You're talented, they said. You are awesome and you are a leader, they said. You are a hard worker and need to create your own material, they said. It will be easy and you can make so much money, they said! Does this sound familiar? Well, let me tell you, I went all in on this well intentioned and motivating advice. Two months later, I have made $28.17 on my Boom Learning   journey and a whopping $6.75 on my Teacher Pay Teachers store .  The well intentioned motivators above, who constantly cheer me on, mainly my family, certainly had no clue the hard work I was going to face. And, quite frankly, neither did I. I thought, "OMG! if other teachers love boom cards as much as I do, there must be a place for me." Well, let me tell you, there definitely is a place, but some of what I am learning is that: You have to really work hard on honing in on one area of your work and get great at it because there is stiff competition. As you grow your following, you can move on to ...