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Every teacher deserves the weekend to relax! Don't you agree? From gradebooks and report cards, to escape rooms 🔐 and writing resources, 📝 my store focuses on teacher organization and upper elementary ELA that saves you time and honors high quality education.
My mission is to help you streamline your teaching day and become the innovative, creative, teacher you are in your heart, with ways to engage your students and get them excited about learning.
After 19 years of classroom teaching experience in grades 3, 4, and 5, now I'm following my passion of creating resources and organizers for educators like you. 🏸 Find more of your favorite FREE resources at my blog, https://teacherwriter.co. I am also a published author of many books, 12 of them for English learners, (EL, ESL).
Please don't hesitate to contact me with questions, suggestions, or just to say hi.
✔ Don't forget to follow my store. You'll be in an elite group of teachers with info about secret sales that I don't advertise anywhere else. Also, you'll know right away when I post new products. They're always 50% off for the first 48 hours. Early bird, and all. 🐦
Cheers! Suzanne Pitner, the TeacherWriter.
P.S. A portion of the proceeds from your purchases goes to support women in Spanish speaking countries to improve their lives and the lives of their families through education and entrepreneurship. Thank you for your support!
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FREE Common Core Math Problem of the Week Teacher Appreciation
This Common Core Math resource is designed to help you teach the eight Common Core Math Standards for Practice in whatever grade you teach. This math resource encourages deep thinking and explanation of math processes and concepts at all grade levels. Students will analyze, model, solve, check, and explain the math problems in groups or individually. You choose the problem to assign to your students and the standard to address. The students use the thinking bubble, to make a plan or draw a p
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Every teacher deserves the weekend to relax! Don't you agree? From gradebooks and report cards, to escape rooms 🔐 and writing resources, 📝 my store focuses on teacher organization and upper elementary ELA that saves you time and honors high quality education.
My mission is to help you streamline your teaching day and become the innovative, creative, teacher you are in your heart, with ways to engage your students and get them excited about learning.
After 19 years of classroom teaching experience in grades 3, 4, and 5, now I'm following my passion of creating resources and organizers for educators like you. 🏸 Find more of your favorite FREE resources at my blog, https://teacherwriter.co. I am also a published author of many books, 12 of them for English learners, (EL, ESL).
Please don't hesitate to contact me with questions, suggestions, or just to say hi.
✔ Don't forget to follow my store. You'll be in an elite group of teachers with info about secret sales that I don't advertise anywhere else. Also, you'll know right away when I post new products. They're always 50% off for the first 48 hours. Early bird, and all. 🐦
Cheers! Suzanne Pitner, the TeacherWriter.
P.S. A portion of the proceeds from your purchases goes to support women in Spanish speaking countries to improve their lives and the lives of their families through education and entrepreneurship. Thank you for your support!
Teaching style
I love to have fun in the classroom! The more the students are engaged, the more fun they have and the more they remember. Don't you love to see the happy smiles on the faces of your students and their parents? Me too.
My philosophy has always been this: 🔽🔽🔽
"Think before you speak. Give your everything to their learning. Make them feel like geniuses."
I actually had this laminated and posted at my desk as a constant reminder. That's the key to being a teacher your students will remember.
Awards & shining teacher moments
▶ 💙 Mrs. Pitner, you're the best teacher I ever had. (From a letter from a student.)
▶ Yolo County Excellence in Education "Salute to Educators" Award 2016 and 2018
▶ Mentor teacher 2003 to 2018
▶ Boom Learning Premiere Publisher
My own education history
▶ Masters Degree in Teaching, Chapman University
▶ Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Upper Iowa University
Additional biographical information
Suzanne Pitner, the owner and creator of TeacherWriter.co began her career as a teacher in 2001 at a rural school district in California.
She started her writing career at Suite101 as an editor/writer for the Education section and the Writing Fiction section. She has written hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books for the English Learner education market in South Korea.
She spent a summer teaching English in China.
Currently she's focusing on creating resources for teachers to enrich classrooms with quality materials.
When not working in the educational arena, she's out urban sketching, walking her dogs, cooking, reading, doing yoga, or spending time with family.
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