Mother/Daughter-Teach Your Heart Out Cruise

A year ago, Lauren saw that the Teach Your Heart Out Group was going on a cruise to the Bahamas and providing some PD by Instagram teacher celebrities, plus visiting a school in Nassau and she wanted us to go.  So we signed up and this past week we went on our cruise with about 600+ other teachers.

Off we went to Miami.

On our flight, Lauren had a little problem with the guy sitting next to her.  He fell asleep and invaded her space.  We tried and tried to wake him and at one point, I thought maybe he was dead because we were pushing and tapping him pretty hard and he wasn't moving.

The night we left Miami, there was a luau with a live performance from Final Draft.

On the first full day of the cruise, we attended 2 sessions in the morning.  The first session was with Michelle Griffo from @applesandabcs and  @targetteachers. The second session was on writing with Ashlynn Ellsworth from @thecreativeclassroom.  The sessions were amazing!

We decided to skip the afternoon sessions and go on an excursion at CococCay .  I mean how can you compare the choices:  teacher staff development or swimming with the pigs.  We actually got in the water with these pigs, fed them pieces of apples, and played with them.

When we got back we attended Chelsey Odgers' (@hipsterartteacher) Artistic Anchor Charts session!  Lauren also had a chance to visit with her up on deck on the first day of the cruise..

On the second day of the cruise, all the teachers wore their Teach Your Heart Out tshirts and we went to visit Sandilands Primary School in Nassau.We were all asked to bring a school supply to donate to the school.  As expected, the teachers went above and beyond in their donations.

On the last night Gerry Brooks was the final session.  As always, he was hilarious!

This cruise was so much fun!  If you have a chance to go, I highly recommend it. Check out Teach Your Heart Out and their cruise announcement for 2021.