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One Word 2025

January 5, 2025 by megankruse

Today’s post has been days… possibly weeks in the making.  I have added it to it, slowly, over the last week – a luxury I have enjoyed as a result of two full weeks away from work.  There are advantages to writing a post over several days:  time to mull things over, less pressure to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Uncategorized Tagged: Corner Tap, curiosity, Dan Britton, Dr. Anita Archer, EDView360, embrace, Father Gregory Boyle, George Couros, Harnessing the Science of Learning, Healing After Loss, Jenny Steffensmeier, Jimmy Page, Jon Gordon, Katie Dailey, Lisa Williams, Louisa Moats, Madelyn Swigart, Martha W. Hickman, Melissa and Lori Love Literacy, Mme Lockhart, Natalie Wexler, Nathaniel Swain, One Word Challenge, Ross Haeger, Sue and Reed Haeger, Tattoos on the Heart, The Reading League Iowa, the science of learning, Voyager Sopris

Where You Place Your Eyes

May 20, 2024 by megankruse

There’s nothing better than spending time with people who make you feel good about life.  You know the type:  they are always smiling, they make you feel like you’re the most important person in the world, and they have a way of talking about others that shines a light on everybody.  These folks have it … [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, Uncategorized Tagged: Chris Vallillo, Corner Tap, Dr. Lori Desautels, Eric Barker, FMCSD, Marvin McGregor, Oscar Wilde, Reed Haeger, Solution Tree, Sue Haeger, Tim Vonderhaar, Tina Boogren, Wendy Vonderhaar

A Season of Selling

April 21, 2024 by megankruse

The 10th episode of Sold a Story was released last week, and has done what good journalism does:  it has made its listeners think.  As always, Emily Hanford and Christopher Peak of APM Reports have given me great pause. The only thing stopping me from listening to the entire Sold a Story series again is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Outreach and collaboration with families and community, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: 3-cueing system, Amy Numedahl, APM, balanced literacy, Christopher Peak, Chuck Vandenberg, Corner Tap, Emily Hanford, Kara Veach, Lisa Williams, Mark Seidenberg, Papae Wymore, Pen City Current, Reid Lyon, Rhonda Nelson, Sold a Story, Stephanie Edgren, Sue and Reed Haeger, systematic change, The Reading League, The Reading League Iowa, the science of reading

A Final Tribute to Dad

April 16, 2024 by megankruse

We were able to celebrate my dad’s life last Friday, surrounded by family and friends, and with an outpouring of support from our community.  My siblings and I, and all 13 grandchildren were dressed in finer attire than we were for Mom’s Celebration of Life in January:  a testament to the difference between Mom and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning Tagged: 13, 40, 55, Brian Schmitz, Bronson Herrmuth, Corner Tap, Jenny Steffensmeier, Jerry Hanley, Katie Dailey, Ozone Ramblers, Reed Haeger, Ross Haeger, Schmitz Funeral Home, Sue Haeger, Wendy Vonderhaar

Digging, Digging, Digging out of a Rut

March 17, 2024 by megankruse

via GIFER I write today from a place of unease, with many contributors to that unease.  2024 has not been an easy year to date, and seems to be on track to be one my toughest ever.  You might say I’m in a bit of a rut, as George Couros named it in Saturday’s weekly … [Read more…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Uncategorized Tagged: Andrea Setmeyer, Brené Brown, change, comparative suffering, Corner Tap, Deb Ridgway, George Couros, Lisa Williams, Papae Wymore, Reed Haeger, rut, Stephanie Edgren, Sue Haeger, the pending Reading League Iowa, The Reading League

Finding My Footing

February 4, 2024 by megankruse

It has been three weeks since Mom passed away.  It has been three weeks of trying to find my footing, with a lot of slippery slopes making it tricky to find that footing. As Mom’s illness took such a sudden turn the second week of January, my siblings and I were able to be at … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning, Uncategorized Tagged: Birkwood Village, Carpe Diem, Corner Tap, Don, Donell Pons, grief, grieving, Jenny Steffensmeier, Katie Dailey, Lindsay Kemeny, Literacy Talks, Reading Horizons, Reed Haeger, Ross Haeger, routine, Stacy Hurst, Sue Haeger, West Point

Attitude of Gratitude

November 26, 2023 by megankruse

It’s probably a bit too cliché to write about gratitude the week in which we celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving, but I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity.  I’m proud to say that I regularly practice an attitude of gratitude, but that attitude was developed over time and is a constant work in progress.  For … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning, Uncategorized Tagged: Aaron Steffensmeier, Becky Morey, Cooney Kruse, Corner Tap, Corrine Swigart, Elton Kruse, Emmett Kruse, exercise, George Couros, gratitude, Ick Kruse, Iowa Reading League, Isaac Steffensmeier, Jane Santiago, Jenny Herriman, Jenny Steffensmeier, Joe Holtkamp, Katie Dailey, Kirk Wellman, Lisa Williams, Owen Kruse, Papae Wymore, Pomiller Park, power of positive, Rachella Dravis, Ross Haeger, science of reading, Stephanie Edgren, Sue and Reed Haeger, Thanksgiving, The Reading League, Wendy Bailey

You Can’t Rain on Our Parade

August 14, 2023 by megankruse

For a gal that is completely consumed by everything literacy, I sure do have a tendency to write about significant numbers:  60 Miles & Reading by the Numbers.  This past weekend provided an opportunity to celebrate everything numbers.  It marked the 70th anniversary of the West Point Sweet Corn Festival, an event marked by the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning, Uncategorized Tagged: 13, 2, 4, 40, 55, Chicagoland, Corner Tap, Jenny Steffensmeier, Katie Dailey, Montana, Pat Harvey, Rachel Steffensmeier, Ross Haeger, Sue and Reed Haeger, Taylor Steffensmeier, West Point, West Point Sweet Corn Festival

We’re Not Gonna’ Quit

November 13, 2022 by megankruse

“Well, we’re not gonna’ quit.”  These are the words my mom responded with after having another DNR (do not resuscitate) conversation upon her recent admission to the hospital.  She spent last Friday to Tuesday in the hospital due to some bleeding.  It was suspected that the cause of the bleeding is another spot of melanoma … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning, Uncategorized Tagged: Amy Lampe Mills, Corner Tap, Dawn Klesner Krabill, Greg Zimmerman, Jane Zimmerman, Jenny Steffensmeier, JoAnn Lampe, Katie Dailey, Reed Haeger, Ross Haeger, Sue Haeger

Authenticity

October 2, 2022 by megankruse

The following is a draft that I began in January of this year.  As the events of the past few days have unfolded, I can’t help but think that now is the perfect time to add to and publish this one. Post that was begun in January: This past weekend, my sisters and I were … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning, Uncategorized Tagged: Anne Haeger, Barbara Bruski, Beth Reis, Corner Tap, Jane Zimmerman, Jenny Steffensmeier, Jerry Hanley, Katie Dailey, love, Mark Haeger, Mary Beth Roy, Nancy Foecke, Patrick Hanley, Red and Selma Hanley, Reed Haeger, Robert Hanley, Ross and Mary Haeger, Ross Haeger, Sue Haeger
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