Dermaplaning Skin Care

Want a super quick and effective skin fix to make your overall skin healthier, as well as to have your make-up go on smoother? Well, you need a dermaplaning tool in your skin arsenal. Dermaplaning is great for exfoliating the skin to remove dead skin cells and peach fuzz to reveal softer, brighter, and younger looking skin. It makes my skin softer, brighter, and glowier.

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Ice Roller Review

Now that it is summer, anything cold is always a treat. Speaking of cold, I’m loving facial ice rolling. Let me tell you, you get instant results, including de-puffing, radiant skin, and defined cheekbones. Who doesn’t want that?

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Book Review: Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

One book that we highly recommend to help guide the implementation of culturally responsive teaching practices into your classroom is Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad. In the book, Dr. Muhammad provides a four part Historically Responsive Literacy Framework that “is essential for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices.”

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Creating a Class Community While Social Distancing

Physical touch is a huge part of learning and creating a classroom community. I’m talking high-fives and pats on the back. Students giving each other hugs or, if they’re younger, their teachers a hug. Sharing supplies with each other, lending a helping hand, sitting knee to knee during circle time. How can students and teachers build a class community when humans rely so much on touch, yet right now, that physical touch is not allowed?

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Matalida's Bloombox Review

Matilda’s delivers the flowers to your door in the San Francisco Bay Area and also in Austin and Houston, TX. Bonus: they have gift deliveries ($39 + Shipping) available in the same areas. The best part is that is not a subscription; you get to select what weeks you want your flowers delivered. They give you a preview so you can decide if those flowers would work for you.

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