Mrs. Love is extra. Happy.
Needed to take a moment and capture the first two weeks at my new school: I love teaching ELA/History again! Great and wonderful things: 8th-grade scholars (not students, scholars) who […]
Summer Series of Saves: free-range reading
Buy this book, please. What do the middle years of teaching look like, because I am in the thick of it now? Do they come with a mix, much like […]
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: The Cockroach (II)
New Yorker cartoons often remind me of the importance of prior knowledge. pic.twitter.com/2zpWXR1ZAk — Kelly Gallagher (@KellyGToGo) July 3, 2018 When Kelly Gallagher tweeted about prior knowledge, he hit on […]
CCSS + Writing Instruction Reflection
If you read one article this summer, my mentor Holly might suggest this one: Are modern standards breeding a decline in cultural literacy? I highly recommend it, too. This post […]
Inner voice logorrhea.
Come on old brain, learn some new tricks! Is it possible to re-program a brain to think differently, not focus on the negative, but wash away shameful thoughts and quickly suture confidence? […]
Night's Watch of Black Sheep
Oh, it is all so clear now. My brother-in-law (my husband’s brother) possesses a skill that fascinates me: he understands personality assessments better than anyone I know, and how to apply […]
Write like a reader. Read like a writer.
“We need to teach our students to read like writers and write like readers.” –Kelly Gallagher