Hi everyone! I’ve recently updated my site and wanted to tell you about the Reading Response online course I created! It is an 8-module course that will take you through all the steps and possible springboard activities with my Reading Response method. This is the same professional development that I give at school districts when…
You Don’t Have To Be Perfect: Practice Self-Compassion
While we all try to navigate the new educational landscape we find ourselves in, the most important thing to remember is perhaps the most obvious: It is not the old educational landscape. This may seem painfully apparent to you right now, but are you really accepting that fact, deep down? As my district begins to…
Dinner with the Governor
In the spring, I received an invitation to attend the Pennsylvania State Dinner at Governor Wolf’s residence, celebrating recipients’ “contributions to the Commonwealth.” The invitation glowed with a gilded gubernatorial seal and in the bottom corner said, “Semi Formal.” I excitedly referred to the event as the “Governor’s Ball” as in the stories of old….
A Poem for the First Day of Class
I like to begin the year with Rumi’s poem “Elephant in the Dark.” Five men who have never seen an elephant go into a dark room where an elephant is standing. They each feel it, trying to guess what it is. However, each of them only feels one part of the elephant, and bases his…
What Students Remember
In over twenty years in education, I’ve seen the impact of good teaching, not only in those exhilarating “light bulb” moments in the classroom, but also in the long term. As a tenth grade teacher, I have the benefit of watching students progress through the upper grades; additionally, it is not unusual for students to…
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