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Finding reward in the hard work of revision – Reflection Wall

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What's going on in this Wall's head about what's happening within the four walls of her high school English classroom. Finding reward in the hard work of revision. August 21, 2016. I’ve been thinking a lot about writing lately. Particularly revisions. While I’ve been thinking about this, one moment from when I was writing my dissertation and turning in draft after draft keeps coming to mind. The hard work, though, is the rewarding work. While my own experience made me more compassionate, it also made me ...

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Those who can, teach. My People: Sustaining a Teaching Life by Staying Connected With My Tribe. Posted in nyc schools. With a nudge from Donna JT Smith. I’m jumping back into Two Writing Teachers’ Slice-of-Life Challenge. 8212;————————. We’re in the last week of the NYC Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute. I can’t believe we’ve gotten here so quickly. 8221; I can’t help it; every summer, it’s the truth. When that Fellow thanked me for helping him find his people, I told him that we can get thro...

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write-beside-them | Those Who Can

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Those who can, teach. Free-writing with students terrifies me. I always think at some point the fear of the first free-write will subside, and instead of inwardly panicking while my students gape at me in horror – Y. Ou’re asking us to write? 8211; I’ll remember that I’ve done this before and no one died. But no, I can’t convince myself of that on Day One; even as I reassure my students that they can do this, my inner freakout perfectly mirrors their outer. What am I going to write about? G raised his ey...

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Teaching in the 21st Century: Digital Reading: Chapters 1 & 2

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Teaching in the 21st Century. Monday, July 6, 2015. Digital Reading: Chapters 1 and 2. How I read professional books has changed over the years. I am curious about the author’s word choice so I find myself collecting vocabulary words and writing them in the margins. In Chapter 1 and 2 I noticed:. In both chapters: Defining Digital Literacy. And From Reading Workshop to Digital Reading Workshop,. The first step is determining the intention. How did I help them achieve ownership. As I finished, chapter 2, ...

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free-writing | Those Who Can

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Those who can, teach. Free-writing with students terrifies me. I always think at some point the fear of the first free-write will subside, and instead of inwardly panicking while my students gape at me in horror – Y. Ou’re asking us to write? 8211; I’ll remember that I’ve done this before and no one died. But no, I can’t convince myself of that on Day One; even as I reassure my students that they can do this, my inner freakout perfectly mirrors their outer. What am I going to write about? G raised his ey...

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Beyond the T-Chart | Those Who Can

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Those who can, teach. I’m going to give you a little dude, I announced, holding up a handful of paper rectangles. On each is the empty outline of a cartoonish body. Now, be kind to this little dude. Don’t draw on his face, or crumple him up, or poke him with your pencil. In every class, this gets a chuckle. This little dude is Junior. He’s going to live in your notebook. Does everyone’s Junior have a home? What are we focusing on today? Someone called out, every class. Junior’s internal conflicts his per...

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freewriting | Those Who Can

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Those who can, teach. Free-writing with students terrifies me. I always think at some point the fear of the first free-write will subside, and instead of inwardly panicking while my students gape at me in horror – Y. Ou’re asking us to write? 8211; I’ll remember that I’ve done this before and no one died. But no, I can’t convince myself of that on Day One; even as I reassure my students that they can do this, my inner freakout perfectly mirrors their outer. What am I going to write about? G raised his ey...

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“Play — Learn — Write” Rethinking Informational Writing in the Primary Grades – By Michelle Bamrick | growingeducators

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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. 8220;Play Learn Write” Rethinking Informational Writing in the Primary Grades – By Michelle Bamrick. May 28, 2015. As a primary teacher, I spent many years assigning research reports to my budding writers. Year after year, I faced the same problems. First, books and articles were simply too challenging for many of the readers to access making it difficult to pull information from the text. As I shifted into becoming a workshop teacher. With a workshop philosophy. The resea...

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The Playful Classroom: Leveraging the Rules of Improv to Promote Engagement, Community, and Creativity — By April Nickell | growingeducators

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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. The Playful Classroom: Leveraging the Rules of Improv to Promote Engagement, Community, and Creativity By April Nickell. June 17, 2015. In my previous blog post. I discussed the important benefits of play in the lives of children and looked at the definition of play. An essential quality of play is that it is spontaneous. In this post, I look to improv principles and games to support classroom engagement, build community, and foster creativity. Improv Rule #2: Don’t negate.

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education | Those Who Can

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Those who can, teach. Starting Over, Again. Coming out of silence is almost as hard as living in it. In an oppressive environment, I survive by turning inward. It’s a strategy that has served me well and protected me through many challenging situations, but the longer I stay in the safety of isolation, the more difficult words become. The only way I’m going to get it right is if I get it done. All I can do, is do. This is hard to admit, to talk about, to. What Doesn’t Kill You. The Monday after the mass ...