A Year of Reading

Texts for this Text Set have been posted daily on Instagram. Follow @TextSets there to get daily updates! I must be in my usual school year ...

As I work with teachers across grade levels, many are thinking about how to build community and create a space that is safe and inviting for...

The first few weeks of writing workshop has gone well. We are keeping writers' notebooks and beginning to learn from other writers....

Last week, in writing workshop, we started a short cycle on response groups in writing.  This is the beginning of our work with responding...

I happened to see My Dad Thinks He's Funny   by Katrina Germein while visiting Cover to Cover around Father's Day. It isn't a...

It is that time of summer when I am thinking hard about those first messages I want to give my new students about the classroom they'...

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell Random House, 2010 I own it. The audio version, too. We'll spend the first days ...