Trailpost
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Kirkland, Washington, United States
About the store
Hi, I’m the creator behind Trailpost! I’m a teacher based in the Pacific Northwest with a background in both general education and music. I hold a B.A. in Education with a focus on Interdisciplinary Child Development from Western Washington University, but my path to the classroom was a bit unconventional!
Before teaching, I spent nine years as a software test engineer for Xbox, then pivoted to a career as a 1:1 behavior technician and early childhood educator. That unique combination of tech and child development completely shapes how I teach and design resources today. I love building tools that are practically "bug-proof" while remaining deeply centered on how kids actually learn and behave. (I even coded my own data-tracking tool, Waypoint, to make sure my students are actually growing while they play!)
I am also a huge history and literature nerd with a soft spot for authentic 19th-century Victorian aesthetics. In my literary resources, you will find high-quality, public-domain-inspired designs, so my Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes materials look like the authentic classics, free from modern movie adaptations! For my fellow music teachers, I also create resources grounded in solid pedagogy, incorporating Kodály methods for holistic music education.
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A Small Observatory: Interactive Digital Constellation Maker | Create Star Art
Bring the wonder of the night sky into your classroom with A Small Observatory, a serene and highly interactive digital tool designed for quiet moments, creative inspiration, and science enrichment. This isn't just a video or a static image—it is a fully functional offline simulation. Students can interact with the star field to connect stars, create their own constellations, name them, and "save the sky" as a high-resolution image to their devices. Perfect for:The "Calm Down" Corner: Use this
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Classroom Community, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Map the Playground — An End-of-Year Full-Day Outdoor Project for Sunny Weather
Give your students a full end-of-year day outside, surveying and mapping the playground they've known all year. They leave behind a mega-map next year's students will find and recognize. Print, prep, go.After testing is done and before the year closes, your students have energy to burn and not much to do with it. Map the Playground uses that energy. Student teams survey, draft, and assemble a scale-ish map of the school playground. Each team handles one zone — swings, field, blacktop, garden, sh
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Measurement, Other (Arts)
Start a Business | Month-Long Class Project | Entrepreneurship, Math, ELA, 3-6
Students become entrepreneurs! In this month-long cross-curricular project, students identify a real problem in their lives, design a product or service that solves it, build a complete business plan with real math, create a brand and marketing campaign, and deliver a Shark-Tank-style investor pitch to a panel of classmates and guest judges. This is not a quick activity — it's a deep, structured project that integrates financial literacy, persuasive writing and speaking, art and design, and crit
3rd - 6th
Applied Math, Other (Arts), Other (ELA)
Myth Makers — A Full-Day Storytelling Project for Upper Elementary
Short description / tagline (for the bio area) Give your students a full day where they become the mythmakers — inventing original origin stories, building shadow puppets, and performing them for the class. Print, prep, go. Full description Every culture has origin stories — why the sun rises, why spiders have eight legs, why the ocean is salty. This full-day project hands that tradition to your upper elementary students: they draw a phenomenon from a jar, plan an original myth using a struc
3rd - 6th
Other (Arts), Other (ELA), Writing
25 Art Activities You Can Do Tomorrow
25 real art projects your students can make with simple materials — drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and mixed media, all with zero to low prep. These aren't coloring pages. Every activity teaches a real art technique — contour drawing, pointillism, printmaking, negative space, wire sculpture — through projects that produce results students are genuinely proud of. Each one includes step-by-step instructions, a teacher tip with practical classroom advice, and grade adaptations for K-5. ⭐
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Art History, Other (Arts), Visual Arts
![Preview of [FREE] The Loom: Create and Print Digital "Woven" Art. Calm Corner Activity](https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=avif,quality=70,width=525,height=525,onerror=redirect/thumbitem/-FREE-The-Loom-Create-and-Print-Digital-Woven-Art-Calm-Corner-Activity-16232261-1777734178/750f-16232261-1.jpg)
[FREE] The Loom: Create and Print Digital "Woven" Art. Calm Corner Activity
A simple app where students create art in a digital weaving studio. Drag a warp color into the frame to begin, then weave threads across — quick passes lay dense, slow passes lay sheer, threads layer freely. When the tapestry is finished, print it as a keepsake with the date and warp name woven into the page. Single-file works offline, no installation on any device. A small activity for early finishers, indoor recess, or any quiet time.
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Graphic Arts, Other (Arts), Social Emotional Learning
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Hi, I’m the creator behind Trailpost! I’m a teacher based in the Pacific Northwest with a background in both general education and music. I hold a B.A. in Education with a focus on Interdisciplinary Child Development from Western Washington University, but my path to the classroom was a bit unconventional!
Before teaching, I spent nine years as a software test engineer for Xbox, then pivoted to a career as a 1:1 behavior technician and early childhood educator. That unique combination of tech and child development completely shapes how I teach and design resources today. I love building tools that are practically "bug-proof" while remaining deeply centered on how kids actually learn and behave. (I even coded my own data-tracking tool, Waypoint, to make sure my students are actually growing while they play!)
I am also a huge history and literature nerd with a soft spot for authentic 19th-century Victorian aesthetics. In my literary resources, you will find high-quality, public-domain-inspired designs, so my Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes materials look like the authentic classics, free from modern movie adaptations! For my fellow music teachers, I also create resources grounded in solid pedagogy, incorporating Kodály methods for holistic music education.
Teaching style
In my classroom, I am all about gamification and interactive learning. If I can turn a math standard into a digital escape room or a history lesson into a browser-based simulator, I am going to do it. I believe that rigorous standards can absolutely be met through immersive play, and I strive to create resources that take the heavy lifting off the teacher's plate while keeping kids totally engaged.
I am also a huge history and literature nerd with a soft spot for authentic 19th-century Victorian aesthetics. In my literary resources, you will find high-quality, public-domain-inspired designs—so my Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes materials look like the authentic classics, free from modern movie adaptations! For my fellow music teachers, I also create resources grounded in solid pedagogy, incorporating Kodály methods and Curwen hand signs.
Whether you are looking for a tech-forward classroom simulator or a solid, beautifully designed lesson plan to get you through the week, I hope you find something here that makes your teaching day a little bit easier and a lot more fun!
My own education history
B.Ed Interdisciplinary Child Development
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