What a whirlwind of a week… or three! As I write today, I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport, buzzin’ like a bee from an AMAZING four days at the 2023 Open Up Resources HIVE conference! There is so much learning to process; I’m thankful for several hours in the airport to do just that. This … [Read more…]
Nearly a month has gone by without a blogpost, again. It’s been a minute. And I’m glad to be back at the keyboard. I have definitely come to realize that I feel like I have more clarity when I am writing, even when the writing feels like an obligation, which it does at times. What … [Read more…]
A Few Disruptions My Sunday routine has been a bit disrupted today. Where I normally spend my Sunday morning in a chair by the woodstove in our porch chipping away at the weekly blog, this morning I was instead enjoying coffee and danishes with my sisters at my kitchen counter (great disruption, I must say!). … [Read more…]
One Word Last week, I wrote about identifying my One Word for 2022. I love the way the word clarity has become a part of how I reflect on my actions: before, during, and after. The word is not consuming me; instead, it is offering another layer of thought around what I think, do, and … [Read more…]
I wrote about the importance of students being leaders of their own learning in October. At the time of that writing, I kept thinking about the parallel between students as leaders of their own learning and teachers as leaders of their own learning. And it’s pretty exciting to watch teachers take hold of that learning. … [Read more…]
What a week! As I mentioned in last week’s post, 25 FMCSD educators attended the Open Up Resources HIVE conference this past week. I’m bursting with pride and excitement about the impact that the HIVE conference had on so many of us… did I mention 25 of us attended??? Even more exciting – the impact … [Read more…]
I just completed a self-paced course (for me, a VERY dangerous notion – self-paced, that is) that focused on utilizing the PRESS (Path to Reading Excellence in School Sites) Reading Intervention. Our district has used PRESS as an intervention in our elementary buildings for several years now. I wasn’t familiar with PRESS until I stepped … [Read more…]
Rarely a week goes by when questions aren’t raised about the structure of the EL Education curriculum, which the Fort Madison Community School District adopted in the fall of 2019 for grades K – 5, and the fall of 2020 for grades 6 – 8. The questions go something like this: “Why do we have … [Read more…]