A Year of Reading

After reading Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi realized how much I don't know about history. So, I...

  image via Unsplash Dear Candy Corn,   Thank you for your jolt of too-much sweetness at the end of a too-long day that was packed with too-...

Even though 2020 has not been a great year, it has been a good year for middle grade books.  I am always on the lookout for books that would...

  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   heavy humid air a skunk was surprised nearby exclamation scent ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2020 This will be the year that I'm ...

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 (...

  Friday, August 14, 2020 was the 85th anniversary of the Social Security Act, and for this, and more, we have Frances Perkins to thank! Pra...

Learning is a Lifelong Journey (a Pantoum) Learning is a lifelong journey that can only be mapped in retrospect and never with straight line...

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 ...