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Some Thoughts on Reading Logs

January 16, 2022 by megankruse

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…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Outreach and collaboration with families and community, Personal Learning, Research, Student learning and the profession, Uncategorized Tagged: Allie Thrower, art of teaching, disruptions, Dr. Joanne Meier, Education Week, Edutopia, el education, Jenny Steffensmeier, Justin Endicott, Katie Dailey, Larry Ferlazo, Las Vegas, love of reading, Open Up Resources, punishments, reading logs, Reading Rockets, rewards, Sarah Said, science of reading, science of teaching, structured literacy, Terre Haute, The Reading League, World of Concrete Show

Buzzin’ Like a Bee

July 25, 2021 by megankruse

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…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Uncategorized Tagged: 3 shifts, Achieve the Core, ASCD, Brooke Powers, Cheryl Becker Dobbertin, close reads, collective efficacy, Common Core, el education, FMCSD, four critical questions, HIVE, Jackye Morrisey, Justin Endicott, Libby Woodfin, Liz Freitag, modules, Morgan Stipe, Open Up Resources, Rhinelander, Ron Berger, Sarah Said, science of reading, Solution Tree, Somerset Academy, Suzanne Nathan Plaut, transformational literacy, Your Curriculum Companion

Forever a Learner

July 19, 2021 by megankruse

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…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession, Uncategorized Tagged: Brooke Powers, Ciera Searcy, Corner Tap, el education, Elton Kruse, FMCSD, HIVE, Jennifer Cripe, Justin Endicott, Kim Penn, Kruse Concrete Construction, Morgan Stipe, Open Up Resources, PRESS, process learning, Quincy Reed Richardson, read-think-talk-write, Sarah Said, Sue and Reed Haeger

Knowledge and Reading Comprehension

March 21, 2021 by megankruse

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…]

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The Flight Attendant
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Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
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