A Year of Reading

Over the past several weeks, I have found myself doing a lot of reflection trying to get this online teaching right.  I keep meaning...

Over the past several weeks, I have found myself doing a lot of reflection trying to get this online teaching right.  I keep meaning t...

**Mary Lee, Franki and Julie have been talking and thinking about choice during this time of Online/Pandemic Learning.  We decided to share...

We just completed our 2nd full week of online learning. We started with a 3-day week, then had Spring break. So last week was our second f...

So 2 weeks ago, I did a talk titled, "What Does It Mean to be a Literacy Teacher Today."  I focused on digital tools and all that...

photo via Unsplash 1. Schedule After 3 hours of school work, I take a break for Creative Time (write, sketch, paint, bake), a non-w...

photo via Unsplash In the course of a day, I rollercoaster from "this is scary/unnerving/overwhelming" to "this is s...

photo via Unsplash Yesterday we did our regular weekly grocery shopping. At the big national chain store, there was ample evidence of...

photo via Unsplash I saw a tweet this morning encouraging us all to be historians -- open our notebooks and capture these times on p...

photo via Unsplash Twenty Questions in Three Voices With No Answers Can I sleep in every day? Can I play video games all day? W...