for anyone and everyone who teaches--no matter the classroom

Parents and teachers are soooo social-media savvy!

• Find we teach on facebook: share your links, ideas, discussions!

• Chat with us on twitter: use the hashtag -- #weteach

• Join our twitter list: all of our greatness in one tweeting spot!

• Join our Pinterest board: the fab we teach members all pinned together!

get comfortable. . .

groups: join any and all groups that interest you--ask questions, share your ideas, or just take some ideas away

forum: click on 'start a discussion' and ask a question, make a comment, or post something for the group as a whole

photos & videos: add yours--we'd love to see them!

Join me at the DIGITAL FAMILY SUMMIT!

20% off through 5/31 with the code WETEACH

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Do you want a chance to win a FAMILY conference pass for the Digital Family Summit?? We're giving one away over at teachmama.com!

(Giveaway open until 5/31/12--and you can enter as many ways as you'd like!)

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APRIL's giveaway: goes to Didi Tilday of Duck Duck Octopus! Didi submitted an idea to the summertime learning eBook, so she'll have $35 to spend on the Melissa & Doug website.  Congrats, Didi!! 

MAY'S giveaway: share the 'we teach' love! Tweet with the hashtag #weteach, sport an awesome we teach button, share news of we teach on facebook, or email your buddies about our awesome forum! Just fill out this short form to let us know how you shared: http://bit.ly/weteahshare

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Member Spotlight:

• Heidi Befort of Globicate desrerves a pat on the back for being named one of Education World's Top 25 Educational Blogs for 2012! Thank you, Heidi, for bringing your passion for global education to our forum in many ways, namely in the we teach: Global Learning group!
• Jacquie Fisher of KC Adventures has been an incredibly active member of our forum ever since she joined! We are hoping to find a leadership position for Jacquie, as she is supportive, helpful, and always willing to offer an answer or idea! Thanks, Jacquie!
• sunnymama blogs at sunnydaytodaymama and frequents our forum from the UK, where she homeschools her son. She's invited our members to join her summer blog carnival--which sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks, sunnymama!

Leader Spotlight:  Jackie Higgins

Jackie is a reading specialist turned stay-at-home mom to two boys. She writes the amazing blog Ready. Set. Read! This early literacy blog shares tips and tricks for growing your babies to readers. Jackie is the co-leader in the we teach: we're bloggers group, she helps manage the weekly blogger feature, and she's always eager to share tips and ideas. You can follow Jackie on Twitter as @bookblogmomma, on Pinterest, and Facebook!  Thank  you for all you do, Jackie!!

The majority of our members live in the US (2800+), but we are so grateful to have members from over 50 other countries!

Here's the breakdown:

we teach members: around the world

We also have members from (in order of fewer members to most): Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cook Islands, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Maldives, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Qatar, Slovakia, Brunei Darussalam, Czech Republic, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Tanzania, United Republic Of Thailand, Turkey, Belgium, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Bulgaria, Egypt, Georgia, United Arab Emirates.

It's absolutely amazing that this forum has brought together so many people from around the world who share an interest in education!

LOVE it!