Leslie Auman

Editor and Teacher-Author

How I Taught the Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank | Diary of Anne Frank | Holocaust | The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a classic text commonly taught in middle school English Language Arts classes. Click through to read a post about how I taught a unit on The Diary of Anne Frank, including an explanation of a student choice final project.

I think that, as teachers, we can all agree that The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a classic and icon text to teach, not in the least because of Anne’s incredible and heart-wrenching story. I was able to choose the texts I taught in my first year of teaching, and The Diary of Anne Frank was one of the books I chose. Although I was teaching in a low-income charter school with students who were primarily non-native English speakers from other countries (mostly Somalia, but other countries, as well), most of my students found Anne’s story intriguing and got into the book.

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3 Things a Virtual Assistant Is Not

Virtual Assistant | Virtual Assistance | Virtual Assisting | A virtual assistant can do many things, but there are some things that a virtual assistant is not. Click through to read about some things that a VA isn't in order to better understand and work with your VA.

I’ve been a virtual assistant for the Teachers Pay Teachers niche for over two years now. I launched my business in August of 2015, and since then, I’ve learned quite a bit about what types of services I enjoy doing and am willing to offer clients and which services are not my cup of tea. There’s an interesting dynamic between Teacher-Sellers and virtual assistants, because there have been, unfortunately, a couple of virtual assistants who took advantage of Teacher-Sellers in the past and who used their position to steal money from clients without providing the agreed-upon services. As you can imagine, this has caused a certain degree of strain between Teacher-Sellers and VAs in this niche. I’ve done my best to try to remedy that over the last couple of years, but I still see some of that tension coming out in the demands that some clients make upon their VAs. That’s why I’ve decided to write this post – to try to educate a little more about what a client can reasonably expect of their VA versus a few things they shouldn’t.

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How to Grade Student Writing Quickly

Writing Rubric | Student Writing | Grading Writing | Grading student writing has never been an enjoyable endeavor. However, in this post, I take the time to explain an idea I had to make it become a faster and easier process - plus, there's a freebie included! Click through to read the post and snag your free download.

When I was still teaching, I had to teach writing every single year. Every. Single. Year. And while I wanted to teach English Language Arts, it was not my favorite thing to teach student writing, and it was even less of a favorite thing to grade student writing. However, each year that I was in the classroom, that’s what I found myself doing many times throughout the school year.

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How I Knew It Was Time to Hire a Subcontractor

Hire a Subcontractor | Subcontractor | Virtual Assistant | Every virtual assistant or social media manager feels like there needs to be 10 of them to get everything done for their clients. What's the solution? Hiring a subcontractor! In this blog post, I write about how I knew it was time to hire a subcontractor to work under me and take some client work off my plate. Click through to read more.

My business exploded in late July and early August of 2016. I’d been in business for about a year at that point, and my business had been growing in fits and starts during that time. But, all of the sudden, it just outright burst through the ceiling that had seemingly been on it. That growth continued – it’s still growing – and for a long time, I struggled to keep up with everything by myself. A few times I received the advice that I should hire a subcontractor, but I knew I just wasn’t there yet, at least financially.

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Why You Need to Celebrate Your Successes

Celebrate Your Successes | Celebrate Success | Success | In both life and business, people tend to get so caught up in the dreams and goals ahead of them - and in whether or not they're achieving those dreams and goals - that they forget to look at where they've been and the success they've already experienced. This post is a manifesto about why you need to celebrate your successes.

I recently re-launched my online group coaching program, Teacher-Seller Virtual Assistant School, which inspired me to write this blog post. Sort of along the same vein of living in the moment, I think more people need to pause, reflect on their successes, and own the magical unicorns that they are, because we all have SO many successes that we tend to just ignore because we’re too focused on the next one we want to try to achieve.

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© Leslie Auman, LLC 2016-Present. Photography by PAW Prints by Patti Wojtowecz. All photographs taken at Picnik Austin.

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I’m Leslie, a former middle school teacher turned editor and Teacher-Author. I’m here to help female entrepreneurs improve their writing and to help teachers around the world save time on lesson planning. I’m glad you’re here!

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