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mar•g r e a t• teacher
@hotmessmarg.bsky.social
Biology Teacher, VEX Robotics Coach (Moral Support and Contractually Obligated love ONLY #iykyk) Voracious Reader

Coach’s Wife and Mom to a little toddler boy who runs me ragged and looks cute doing it

MA in Science Ed

#edusky #stemedu #steamedu
I’m setting up an appointment to re-start mine
January 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Me: “Do skills”

Also me: *has no idea how the game is even played this year*
January 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yes, and now I help coach the VEX teams and literally cannot help them with any of the issues they run into 😂
January 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It was very nice to have an extra person aid in keeping my head screwed on straight 😂
January 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I have a killer mitochondria tattoo, so she’s not wrong.

I pick up the phone and dial my husband’s classroom who DIES laughing too. I tell him to make sure he gets her absences fixed because she’s been answering to someone else’s name.

And that kids, is why I would never be in leadership 🤣
January 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I tell her, I appreciate her letting me do my thing, but she’s got the wrong Byrd on the wrong hallway. I tell her this is why I start class the first couple days with “Hey, I’m the Biology Byrd” to make sure kids are in the right place, and she said I could tell you liked science by the tattoos
January 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I immediately burst into laughter. I mean, tears are pretty close to streaming down my face. Kid tries to console me and said “you seem like you are good at science so I just listened”

She was scheduled for my HUSBAND’S class, US History, NOT BIOLOGY, a class she sat in for a WEEK.
January 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
They’re 100% right. I don’t see a single one of my courses. I asked if she had her schedule changed recently, but she said no.

She then says “yeah this is my 4th block, but honestly you’ve been teaching the wrong class for the last 4 days but I didn’t want to offend you so I didn’t say anything”
January 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I also explicitly say: “hey kid, if I don’t call your name- let me know!” This happened to a student and I was able to figure out where they belonged. No biggie.

Well today, one kid comes up to me and tells me they’re not in my Schoology. I ask them to pull it up so I can look.
January 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It was a Gizmo- we love explore learning in 612.

Anywho, I posted the join link and class code in Schoology (our LMS) and was helping kids get synced and whatnot, after taking attendance— very important to the story.

On day one of class I ask kids to correct my pronunciation, nicknames, whatever
January 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Because who gives a 57 page syllabus
January 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM