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One Grateful Teacher: Easy
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Other Places I Write. Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Slice of Life Challenge. Please join the challenge over at Two Writing Teachers! I hear that word thrown around like an insult. I hear your class is so easy. I asked my students to reflect about my class. Use that word.a lot. I started feeling bad and wondering things like,. Am I challenging them? Are they learning what they need to learn? Could they be learning more? Should I be doing more? It doesn't make any sense! So, why do they say my class is easy.
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No words but lists | Words from JL
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Refirement – teaching and learning. About Words from JL. What are you reading? What are you reading? Deborah Wiles once more →. No words but lists. July 21, 2015. Words seem to fail me today, this week, last week – writing has come to a stop! Certainly not my thinking – it is almost as if there is so much going on inside my head I can’t sort out what to put on paper ( screen). That leads me to the idea of lists –. Back garden weeds to be pulled. Tomatoes waiting to turn red. You are physically gone now.
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The Weariness Test | All the Reasons Why
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All the Reasons Why. Connecting Our Literacy Lives Inside and Outside the Classroom. March 27, 2015. This is a test. A test of stamina. Determination. Fortitude. Often times, when we are at the end of our road, we are faced with a weariness test. It doesn’t come when we are fresh, bright-eyed and enthusiastic. It comes when we are in the last few laps of the challenge. The test comes when exhaustion sets in. When we feel empty. Right about where we slicers are now in that final stretch. You can do it!
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One Little Word…Dance | nanareadtome
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One Little Word…Dance. Asymp; 11 Comments. But, now, I’m thinking of the challenge of finding “one little word” at this bend in the road, and the one little word that keeps popping in my head is…dance. Because, when we dance, we live in the moment, freely, embracing life and breathing it in….not waiting for the moment, but making the moment happen. 8220;If the neighbors look in the windows, they’ll think we’re nuts,” my dad said on that Sunday night. Larr; Previous post. Next post →. Dancing… I lov...
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Those Who Seek Beauty Will Find It | Raising a Literate Human
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Raising a Literate Human. Join me on my journey to raise my daughter to read the word and read the world. July 7, 2015. Those Who Seek Beauty Will Find It. See those hanging flower pots baskets on Chocolate Avenue? They’re the things that inspired me to try to reframe Isabelle’s noticing of the not-so-beautiful into a search for beautiful things we can notice and share with each other. And trash on the ground (Ever since Earth Day she’s been agahast whenever she sees litter.). Here’s a listen to ou...
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Reading Amid the Chaos: One day left #SOL15
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Reading Amid the Chaos. My classroom is not a quiet, orderly place. Students are constantly moving, thinking, talking, reading and writing. I do my best to help my students find success. June 9, 2015. One day left #SOL15. This was the picture my mom took in August after we worked in my classroom all day. It's not really flattering, but it's an important picture. I see hope, fear, exhaustion and excitement. My first year in a classroom bigger than 8 x 8 feet. A new adventure. Tomorrow is the last day.
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I Feel Like a Kid Again | Musings of a Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Friend, Teacher, Learner and Writer
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Musings of a Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Friend, Teacher, Learner and Writer. A Place for Me to Think and Share. Growing Up in Rutland. I Feel Like a Kid Again. April 14, 2015. I feel like a child again, the eight year old announced as she hopped on the swing. I was only half-listening as the children started their extra recess this afternoon on the first day of New York State ELA testing. I chose to take them to the primary playground where they don’t regularly play. All was going well with the kick...
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Pleasures from the Page: Tuesday SOL: Traveling to Spain
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Pleasures from the Page. Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion." -Barry Lopez. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Tuesday SOL: Traveling to Spain. Today I join my fellow b. Serving up a slice". Tuesday Slice of Life (SOL). Stacey, Tara, Betsy,. For hosting this meeting place each Tuesday. And nurturing our writing lives. Yesterday I took a quick trip to one of my favorite spots in Spain via a picture book! Park Guell, a spot we visited in. Gatehous...
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Literacy Lenses
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Focusing on Literacy Work that Matters. Celebrating Two Years of #G2Great Gratitude. January 8, 2017. On January 5, 2017. G2Great celebrated our two-year Twitter anniversary. As I look back on this remarkable journey, January 8, 2015. Stands out in my mind. On that day Amy Brennan. Launched a new Twitter chat to honor my book, Good to Great Teaching: Focusing on the Literacy Work that Matters. Heinemann, 2012). Read more about our story here. Shouting Our Deepest Literacy Beliefs from the Mountaintop.
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Literacy Lenses
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Focusing on Literacy Work that Matters. G2Great Storify List 2015-2017. Scroll down to see all Storify archives since our anniversary chat on 1/8/15. Guest Host Pernille Ripp: Passionate Learners. Guest Hosts Tony and Paul Sinanis: Instilling a Life-Long Love of Reading from a Student Lens. Guest Hosts Eden and Ella: Engaging Students and Teachers in Conversations (#Kidsedchatnd). Guest Hosts Georgia Heard and Jen McDonough: A Place for Wonder. Guest Host Katherine Bomer: Hidden Gems. Tony Sinanis: Leade...
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