Happy New Year! This post reflects on my 2024 Reading Goals. It also shares a new approach I’m taking with goals for 2025, specifically Reading Goals.
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7 Takeaways from the 2023-2024 School Year
We are over a week out from the end of the 2023-2024 school year! Summer break has begun. Before we get too far into the break, I wanted to share out seven takeaways from the 2023-2024 school year.
The R.E.S.T. Approach to Summer 2022
The R.E.S.T. Approach is a realistic plan to make Summer 2022 meaningful by using time to relax, evaluate, study, and tinker.
Six-Word Stories: 51 Students Reflect on the 2020-2021 School Year
The 2020-2021 school year is in the books! On the final day of class, I introduced my students the concept of the six-word story (also known as a six-word memoir). We reviewed Masterclass’s brief overview blog post and I went over a few tips of my own, including how to use punctuation, hyphens, and abbreviations.…
Article of the Week Suggestion Box
A student recently floated the idea of a “Suggestion Box” for potential Article of the Week assignments. Here’s how it works.
Planning and Revising Lessons for the 2020-21 School Year
Here are a few of the big curriculum decisions I’ve made for my practice for the 2020-2021 school year.
Back to School Thoughts – 2020-2021
The beginning of August is the signal that school is on the horizon. The 2020-2021 school year is going to look different. I plan on sharing what I’m learning to help other educators.
“Dear Basketball” & Remembering Kobe Bryant
“RIP Kobe 💔💔💔” I was in disbelief when I saw a friend post on Instagram the picture and caption above of Kobe Bryant. I raced to Google to verify and, sure enough, there were news stories about Kobe Bryant’s death from a helicopter accident in California. I’ve never been an NBA fan or closely followed…
#TeachWritetober 2019 Goals
I was motivated to sign up for #TeachWritetober 2019 after seeing a few teacher-friends tweet about their involvement. I’ve been meaning to write more, especially after my Summer Blogging Project fell flat. On the #TeachWritetober page of the Teach Write, LLC. website, one would see the following: How does the #TeachWritetober challenge work? Commit to…
Remembering 9/11 with John Adams and “Souls”
The way that I remember September 11, 2001, and invite my students to consider the impact of the day is by listening to John Adams’s piece, “On the Transmigration of Souls.”