Kindergarten teacher at PS173. Teachers who love teaching, teach students to love learning.

Joined September 2019
Celebrating #SELDay with our SEL Ambassadors today! They made posters about what SEL means to them and presented them during morning announcements. They are true examples of how "today's students are tomorrow's leaders!" @PS173Q
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馃帀Celebrating the 100th day of school with K-205's grown-ups made the day even more special & fun!!馃挴
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馃帀Celebrating the 100th day of school with K-205's grown-ups made the day even more special & fun!!馃挴
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馃帀Celebrating the 100th day of school with K-205's grown-ups made the day even more special & fun!!馃挴 @PS173Q
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馃巸馃懟Happy Halloween from K-205!馃巸馃懟
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I'm a Bucket Filler! 馃挌馃帀馃馃帀馃挏 K-205 is a Bucket filler classroom!! 馃巸馃懟Happy Halloween to all who celebrate!馃懟馃巸 Remember to be a bucket filler, not a bucket dipper! You will fill up someone else's bucket, but at the same time, you'll fill up yours too, and that feels good.馃挆
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We love saying affirmations! 馃槏 I love that they choose to use the words from our #MindsetMonday lessons as their affirmations!馃 #SEL #SocialEmotionalLearning #Kindergartenisthebest #ChangeMakers
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馃専This week's Kinders who showed Optimism! 馃専They received an Optimistic crown and got their picture taken to display on our classroom's Brain Grower board under the word "Optimism."馃帀馃コ #SEL #SocialEmotionalLearning #BrainGrowers #GrowthMindset #BrainGrowers @PS173Q
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Brain Grower #1--#Optimism #MindsetMonday this week! Read alouds that teach Optimism and some Kinder definitions for Optimism. 馃馃挍馃挭馃徏馃挀 #SEL #SocialEmotionalLearning #GrowthMindset
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Creating our own original Color Monsters while learning about Identifying and managing emotions on this #MindsetMonday ! #sel #socialemotionallearning #growthmindset
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Happy 1st Day!! Here's to year 23!! 7th year teaching Kindergarten. It's definitely my favorite grade!! 鉂わ笍
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Testut's Kind Kinders retweeted
Last week our very own Mrs. Testut held her first book signing event @ The Next Chapter bookstore in Huntington, NY. We are SO proud! 馃グ Congratulations to you, @MrsTestut #EmbraceYourFeatures #chameleonpride @D26Team @NYCSchools @DOEChancellor
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馃Last Day leading #BeautifulMeGroup for the '23 school year!馃 We reflected on the last 6 wks & the word "special" kept coming up. I hope they take the mission & message of the Beautiful Me group into their lives & always remember how truly special they are.馃挍 @PS173Q
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馃寧馃摎Happy World Book Day!馃摎馃寧 My 1st #worldbookday as an author! 馃檶馃徏馃憦馃徏馃ぃ "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison And that's exactly what I did!馃グ #EMBRACEYOURFEATURES #inclusivebookswillchangetheworld
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Wrapping up #civicsweek in K-205. Why does our voice matter? See part 2 for some of their answers! #useyourvoice #changemakers @PS173Q
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So proud of the @PS173Q #SEL Ambassadors who gave a PSA on morning announcements today #SELDAY. They're true leaders & student advocates for social emotional learning in school! Look at those awesome posters they made! Proving how much their voice matters for #civicsweek too!
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