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“Grading is Complicated: Ruminations of an English Teacher Educator”
My students (future secondary English teachers) have a lot of questions about grading. They wonder if effort should count. They wonder if an emergent bilingual who works dang hard on three drafts of an essay should receive the same grade […]
“Digging into Fantasy and SciFi: An Anthropological Approach”
Like many authors, I came to writing via a circuitous route. A childhood obsession with The Lord of the Rings led to a fascination with history and other cultures, which led to an undergraduate degree in anthropology, which led to teaching 7th grade […]
Recommended Books for Lit Circles/Book Clubs in the Middle School Classroom
As a teacher, I am always working to grow professionally to give my students the best possible instruction in the classroom, but one practice that has been a common theme throughout all twelve of my years […]
“Teaching My Son to Read” (by Ricki) Part II (Part I Post: Here)
Forging On
Thank you all for the wonderful advice in the comments section of my last post. I purchased the Mem Fox book and continually remind myself that read-alouds are the most powerful tool to […]
Popular books change quickly in a classroom depending on what is being talked about. Here are the books that are being talked about in our classrooms as of right now:
Kellee
These are the books being talked about in my middle school (6th-8th grade) advanced reading classroom […]
For weeks I’ve known I wanted to write this post as tomorrow marks a month since the Parkland Shooting, but I had to figure out how I wanted to word all of my thoughts. I hope that I am able to articulate and say what I mean.
I love teaching. I […]
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