“For all the things our textbooks forgot to tell us about teaching… TeachersConnect has an answer. I found it extremely helpful to hear how other teachers in the area found relevant titles for their classroom libraries.”

“I have loved being able to stay in touch with my former Loyola [University] classmates! We grew incredibly close during our internship experience, and after that, we all seemed to go our separate ways to different schools, counties, and even states. TC has been a nice way to touch base with old friends and see how far we have all come since our time in school together.”

“The platform has most especially enabled myself to become more reflective in my practice. When I am posting, I think through the entire situation: what I know about what I am posting, any below the line information about my students, my response to any stimuli in any situation I am reflecting upon, the response of the students, etc. TeachersConnect is a mutually beneficial professional development platform for which I am grateful to have access.”

“One person had commented [in TeachersConnect] about the language of math. That inspired me to do a little research around that and the different levels. That helped me to kind of think about differentiating between the different languages of math, like looking at the procedural language, the mathematical language itself, and the contextual language. We looked at some practice MCAS testing problems, and it helped to see what are the different parts of language that we wanted to make sure that our students understood.”

“You see people with the same questions that you have, so it builds that community. I feel like I have to help out when I can, so when I see something that I know I can share, I share it. I feel like it’s cheating if I don’t!”