>> My name is Ashley Schroeder and I'm a 2nd grade teacher in northeastern Ohio.
And I also have a teacher's pay teachers store, um, called Schroeder Shenanigans in 2nd
in which I create curriculum and share resources and ideas and inspiration
with other teachers all over the world.
So when they come in, boom, we are right to work.
There's not a minute wasted and they know all those expectations.
We start with a warm-up song.
We start with a warm-up activity each day.
We dive into reading class.
We're talking about genre.
I'm up on the tables reminding them of the genre.
Last week, before we move onto the genre.
This week, we dig into some reading and comprehension skills.
And then the afternoon, that's when we get our specials and we get some social studies
and science and the kids love science.
They're just like mini-scientists.
We go to music or art or phys-ed and then we come back and have some math rotations.
My kids are never sitting still for very long.
So we rotate from one activity to another and our math rotations.
And then we call it a day and we do it all over again the next day.
I come up with anything that I can to put into a lesson to make my lesson engaging,
to make it exciting, to get my kids up and moving.
Anything that I can think is going to bring a lesson to life, I do it.
And it's non-stop, though.
Like it never -- something changes or an idea will, um, inspire a new --
something new that I want to try in my classroom.
So lesson planning, it doesn't stop, but it --
it's an essential piece of what I do every day in my classroom, for sure.
Teachers Pay Teachers is an online marketplace, the largest online marketplace for teachers
in the world and it's where teachers are providing resources and inspiration and ideas
and lesson plans and activities and posters and anything you can imagine for teachers.
It was designed by a teacher for teachers and with teachers in mind.
And I have a shop on Teachers Pay Teachers that other teachers reach out to me for help.
And so beyond helping the students in my classroom, I'm helping teachers and, therefore,
their students in classrooms all over the world.
It's one of those professions, again, you can't do alone,
and Teachers Pay Teachers has connected me with students and teachers literally all
over the world via social media, via my blog,
and it's an awesome community that just lifts each other up.