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In the past 10 days, our world has moved at lightening pace. It seems that there is a moving target that changes on an hourly basis. "Prepare a few at-home enrichment activities" to "Plan 3 weeks of nontraditional instruction." to "ALL SCHOOL IS MOVING ONLINE". Whoa. We, as educators, have emotional, mental, and physical whiplash as we consider how to care for and keep safe our own families and ...
Five falls ago our District rolled-out Common Assessments to all fifteen (14 at the time) of our elementary schools and included accompanying scantrons sheets with each one. Initially, our 1st grade ...
Opinion Writing Mentor Texts offer students a 'real' perspective on a genre and give students professional authors to emulate. Making writing concrete is valuable, and mentor texts help us do ...
Change can be hard. It can be necessary and uncomfortable. Sometimes we know we need to change but we’re not sure what that looks like. Our teacher worlds change all.the.time. As we learn more, watch ...
Oral Language matters. We want students speaking, share, and writing in complete sentences. When we give students opportunities to talk before writing, we are scaffolding their thinking and language. ...
Over the last 8 weeks, we have covered a lot of ground. We've explored each other's classrooms, traded ideas, asked questions, and remembered why The ...
My name is Catherine, and I am an organization addict. It's true friends. I love procedures and order and know my classroom runs smoothly because of ...
Today I'm sharing some of my classroom 'must-haves'. These are resources that have paid dividends for me, completely worth the expense. We use these ...
Hey, friends! Today I wanted to drop by and share how our Writer's Workshop is developing. We jumped right into Narrative Writing and we are loving ...
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