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florida-teacher 2026-07-01T06:00:02.272490 by Maria Santos

Hurricane Days Are Coming: What Every Florida Teacher Needs to Do Before and After the Storm

Florida teacher tip: I still think about Hurricane Irma. It was 2017, and I had just finished setting up my classroom for the new school year. New anchor

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florida-teacher 2026-06-30T06:00:01.887283 by Maria Santos

Dear First-Year Florida Teacher, Nobody Warned You About This

Florida teacher tip: I remember standing in my classroom in late August, sweating through my cardigan before 7:30 AM, watching a gecko run across my

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florida-teacher 2026-06-22T06:00:02.367249 by Maria Santos

Florida Teacher Certification: What Nobody Tells You Before You Start

Florida teacher tip: Let me tell you about the summer I almost didn't make it into my own classroom. It was 1999, I had just graduated from FIU, and I was

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florida-teacher 2026-06-20T06:00:01.980857 by Maria Santos

Dear First-Year Florida Teacher, Nobody Warned You About Any of This

Florida teacher tip: It was September, my first year teaching, and I was absolutely certain a hurricane was going to cancel school for at least a week. I

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florida-teacher 2026-02-22T06:00:01.876858 by Maria Santos

Florida Teacher Certification: What They Don't Tell You (But I Will)

Florida teacher tip: Last week, my neighbor's daughter called me in tears. She'd just graduated with her education degree and was drowning in Florida's

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florida-teacher 2025-11-25T05:34:00 by Maria Santos

Florida Teacher Certification: What They Don't Tell You in Education School

Florida teacher tip: Last week, my neighbor's daughter Sofia called me in tears. She'd just graduated with her education degree and was drowning in

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florida-teacher 2025-10-27T07:59:00 by Maria Santos

Florida Teacher Certification: The Real Story Nobody Tells You

Florida teacher tip: Picture this: It's 2002, and I'm sitting in a stuffy room at the district office, sweating through my professional blazer (porque,

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florida-teacher 2025-10-19T08:08:00 by Maria Santos

Dear First-Year Florida Teacher: You're Going to Make It (Even When It Feels Like You Won't)

Florida teacher tip: Picture this: It's August 2002, and I'm standing in my first classroom at 7 AM, sweating through my carefully chosen "professional"

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florida-teacher 2025-08-22T07:52:00 by Maria Santos

Dear New Florida Teacher: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me 22 Years Ago

Florida teacher tip: I still remember my first August in a Florida classroom. Fresh out of college, armed with laminated bulletin board borders and enough

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florida-teacher 2025-08-11T05:50:00 by Maria Santos

Dear First-Year Florida Teacher: You're Going to Make It (I Promise)

Florida teacher tip: I still remember my first day teaching in Florida like it was yesterday. August 2002, standing in front of 28 third-graders in a

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Maria Santos

4th Grade Teacher

22 years teaching in Tampa, FL. Sharing real classroom strategies that actually work for Florida teachers dealing with FAST testing, differentiation, and everything in between.

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