The Background Two weeks ago, I wrote a post about the power of collaboration. In the first part of it, I described the process that our coaching staff went through to develop a session for our district’s upcoming professional development day. I summarized it as a seven-step process, much of which involved frustration, but ultimately … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]