Summer Series of Saves: The Notebook
Note: all or most of these are WIPs: I continually update as I find new resources. You are welcome to make a copy and then rename to make them your […]
Summer Series of Saves: Tea with Bears (or the hard sell)
Planning and shaping students’ reading lives–I have some concerns. Selfish, muddy concerns. Donalyn Miller’s tweet about ill-defined independent reading prompted my own wondering about the basics: what is are […]
Versus.
George Couros has me thinking (again): “What is the difference between school and learning?” His article, One Question We Should Always Ask… made me think deeply about how the relationship between […]
Summer Series of Saves: Dismantling the Essay (III)
Black women are superheroes. pic.twitter.com/9s2bssliqW — Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 5, 2018 Ok, America. Your July 4th/Independence Day thing is coming up. Here are a few things that I think […]
Building (Relationships) Check-Up
*Coffee talk time! The Six Relationships That Characterize Great Schools I invite educators and non-educators to comment or add ideas to this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xfLN2tVtXubahQZOl-_BKxoXt9VZ2-wgOJU9uWaZGTk/edit?usp=sharing I am thinking about making this […]
Dismantle, disrupt, and…discontinue?
One of my personality flaws is the fear of being misunderstood. I say it’s a flaw because I spend too much mental energy trying to explain my meaning after the […]
Lesson Plan Blues (updated)
A discussion about lesson plans and expectations. Resources and Links!
Cake in the rain.
We all know this isn’t about cake. I’m trying to sort this out for my own sake, and then for my students’. Cornell Law Review Link. Amendment I Congress […]
Dowry.
Back in April 2015, Love, Teach wrote a blog post that has been widely circulated, What I Wish I Could Tell Them About Teaching in a Title I School, and it […]
Making things.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post regarding how to get students to move forward without scaffolds, I received many good ideas from the High School ELA group page* on […]
We have a voice.
Yesterday–what an amazing day. Weeks ago, students began seeking trusted teachers in the building, wondering if and how we would support them in the National School Walk Out Day. We […]
Part I: Renaissance Fairness
Sometimes we teachers may grow cynical about the ‘career and college’ ready mission statement. It’s not hard to see why: when our nation voted gave corporations the same voting rights […]
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: listening and speaking all the way
Always adding and refining: here are some resources to help with class discussions and partner work. Enjoy! Previous posts on discussions: http://blog0rama.edublogs.org/tag/turn-and-talk/ http://blog0rama.edublogs.org/2017/07/09/summer-series-of-saves-can-we-talk-about-this/ [embeddoc url=”http://blog0rama.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/partner-work-protocols-klove-17nhkzw-1swj888.pptx” download=”all” viewer=”microsoft” ] [embeddoc url=”https://blog0rama.edublogs.org/files/2018/01/ELL-Sentence-Frames-Exploratory-Classes-27pmdyh-1iq52aw.docx” […]
Heroic measures: repair
Months ago I ordered a ceramic unicorn — “thing.” It’s a decorative object, and I don’t remember why I liked it. I’m not normally a unicorn person. Perhaps in that […]
Heroic measures: the loud quiet moment
“39. We must learn that when our art reveals a secret of the human soul, those watching it may try to shame us for making it. (p. 70). The Artist’s […]
Build and Grow
Can the skills for the future be taught? Skills–strategies –the future will depend on our ability to solve problems–and that ability relies heavily on strategies– Actually, legitimately taught and learned? […]