A Year of Reading

photo via Unsplash Each day I thread the needle of my heart and stitch together my quilt-square students into a tapestry of joy and learning...

What a week. But also -- what a week in poetry. On Tuesday, as I drove towards the beginning of the second half of the grand experiment know...

 This morning, between this page (which I've already seen) in my Everyday Offerings book... ...and this page (which I've already see...

  One of my new routines for this year is link to the CNN10 news for the day in an open Google doc with a table where my scholars can add t...

image via Unsplash We had our virtual Meet the Teacher this past Thursday.  On the one hand, having a new group of children on the screen in...

  Some realities we cannot choose (see cleaning supplies and gallon jug of hand sanitizer in the background). Some realities we can choose (...

Remember that rollercoaster poem from last Friday? Well, we've dropped in. We're done with the ready and the set, and it's all ...