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Month: January 2021

Collaboration Over Isolation

January 24, 2021 by megankruse

I have had the good fortune of working with amazing teachers for my entire 25 teaching career.  On each team that I’ve been a part of, we have worked together, laughed together, cried together, shared ideas, lesson plans, successes and failures. Teaching in a silo, without the support of others, whether self-chosen or forced on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards Tagged: ALL Block, Becky Morey, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders meme, Better Lesson, collaboration, Corrine Swigart, el education, Fort Madison Community School District, Julie Eckhardt, Julie Yurko, Kim Penn, Module lessons, Mr. T, PLC, Rachella Dravis, running, silos, solitude, Solution Tree, team, TLS, Wendy Bailey

The Importance of Spelling Instruction

January 17, 2021 by megankruse
A Reading Journey

I did not intend for this blog to be a confessional, yet I feel compelled to confess to yet another of my many missteps in the classroom, this time around spelling instruction.  In the January 5, 2021 Psychology Today article “Why Spelling Instruction Should Be Hot in 2021,” J. Richard Gentry highlights the current research … [Read more…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession Tagged: ALL Block, Daniel Willingham, David Liben, el education, Fort Madison Community School District, George Couros, J. Richard Gentry, Judith Hochman, Ken Goodman, Know Better Do Better, Linnea Ehri, Louisa Moats, Mark Seidenberg, Meredith Liben, Natalie Wexler, orthographic mapping, Phases of Reading, Psychology Today, Skills Block, Spelling Instruction, The Writing Revolution, whole language

Placing Blame: The Current State of Literacy Instruction

January 10, 2021 by megankruse

That’s wildly inappropriate for many, many reasons, but it brings up a big selling point of #balancedliteracy: If we just surround children with books and reading they will learn to read. This is a beautiful, terrible lie. — Briar in Blue (@auroraworeblue) January 1, 2021 This series of tweets prompted some thinking about misplaced blame … [Read more…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession Tagged: APM, At a Loss for Words, balanced literacy, blame, Briar in Blue, el education, Emily Hanford, Hard Words, Louisa Moats, paTTAN, Teaching Reading is Rocket Science, What the Words Say

Jumping In

January 3, 2021 by megankruse

The desire to maintain a blog has been with me for some time.  My 5th and 6th grade students even dabbled in some form of a blog years ago when we had a “Book Blog” on our website. There are many reasons that I haven’t fulfilled the desire to begin a blog.  Topping the list … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning Tagged: Brené Brown, busyness, Dean Shareski, Derek Sivers, fears, FFT's, George Couros, Jenny Steffensmeier, Megan Kruse, Obvious vs Amazing, Rachel Steffensmeier, Subtle Impacts, Unlocking Us

Welcome to my digital portfolio!

January 1, 2021 by megankruse

I am excited to launch my digital portfolio, under the direction of a course hosted by the one and only George Couros!  My goals in maintaining this portfolio are shaped by my long-standing desire to create a blog and some clear direction from George Couros in his Digital Portfolio Master Course.  My goals include:  Document … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement Tagged: Dear Sophie, Digital Portfolio Master Course, George Couros, goals, Megan Kruse, NEA, new year, teacher leader model standards

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