Jennifer Van Blair is a current third grade teacher. She has taught 3 - 5 grade for 13 years, and has experience with combination based classrooms. She has a Master's in Educational Leadership and a background in natural sciences and outdoor education.
Is your classroom full of gamers? Do they enjoy playing games where creatures battle and they collect them to win? Are you looking to engage your students in meaningful practice? Then this game is the game for you. Designed for a varied level classroom, the five included decks of 24 unique cards (that's 120 cards in ALL) will allow you to easily differentiate your MATH WITH A BUDDY, CENTER TIME, or MATH GAME TIME with a mix of the decks. Each deck is in color to make sorting easy. There are so m
Jennifer Van Blair is a current third grade teacher. She has taught 3 - 5 grade for 13 years, and has experience with combination based classrooms. She has a Master's in Educational Leadership and a background in natural sciences and outdoor education.
Teaching style
She enjoys using hands-on learning with regular use of manipulatives, visual learning, models, and student-led exploration. She is inspired by the work of Peter Liljedahl, Jo Boaler, and Carol Dweck.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Contributor to Byrdseed TV creating lessons for GATE classrooms.
My own education history
UC Santa Cruz - Environmental Science and Education
San Jose State - Elementary Education Credential
Upper Iowa University - Masters in Teacher Leadership