A Year of Reading

Tree At My Window by Robert Frost Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be ...

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 Not silence, but close: No noise wafts from the freeway Just the trees dripping ©Mary Lee Hahn Ro...

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...

Let's Dance! by Valerie Bolling illustrated by Maine Diaz Boyds Mills Press, March 2020 review copy provided by the publisher ...

via Unsplash "Who will stop the people who want to cheat?"   -- Tabatha Yeatts I joined Tabatha in writing Ele...