Whether reading, writing or even instructing students around key terminology, the Periodic Table of Elements, or the causes of World War I, we must always place in… Read more “What Do Your Tasks Value More: Your Ideas or Your Students?”
Category: Rewiring Instruction
Join the Annotation Party🤓: How can we measure reader growth w/o a Deficit Lens?
We (that means me and you, dear reader) are discussing and annotating “How Should Readers Develop Across Time? Mapping Change without a Deficit Perspective” by Maren Aukerman… Read more “Join the Annotation Party🤓: How can we measure reader growth w/o a Deficit Lens?”
Purpose Driven Writing: the relationship between Flexibility & Agency
In thinking about purpose-driven writing, I wrote previously about how the planning differs and here I want to dig into that more. With purpose-driven writing, a lot… Read more “Purpose Driven Writing: the relationship between Flexibility & Agency”
Purpose-Driven Writing: How Planning Differs
Before you read this, reflect on the last time you wrote something other than a lesson plan, letter of recommendation, cover letter, feedback for a student, or… Read more “Purpose-Driven Writing: How Planning Differs”
Interventions for Intermediate or “Long-term ELLs”
If you teach older students learning English for the first time or “Long-term ELLs” (a designation states like NY use to say a student has passed the… Read more “Interventions for Intermediate or “Long-term ELLs””
180 days PD in NYC 3/14
I was so excited to attend this PD with 2 of my other colleagues! It was such an affirmation of what Mac and I have been doing… Read more “180 days PD in NYC 3/14”
Mac & Marie 🌀 
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