Thank you to all who attended my sessions at ILA in St. Louis! I hope you left with many ideas to implement in your classrooms. As promised, here are the PowerPoints from each session. The handouts remain on the conference website. Please keep in touch and let me know how your lessons go. Enjoy! …
5 Reader Activities to Invite Higher Thinking
Here is a link to an article I wrote this week for Middleweb. You’ll find 5 engaging, practical ideas for post-reading activities. Enjoy! 5 Reader Activities to Invite Higher Thinking
A Father’s Day Meditation on Grief and the Iliad
As I was thinking this weekend about the Charleston massacre, and about the deep suffering of this world, I found myself drawn to the books I usually turn to in times of darkness. Not the cheery self-help books that line my bookshelves for happier times, but the books that delve into depths of human experience:…
3 Ways to Meaningfully Celebrate the End of the School Year
If you’re like me, you’re exhausted by now. You’ve given your best effort for 165 days or so (not that every day was your best, but every day was your best effort for that day), and with a couple weeks left, you’re just trying to get it all done. I’m there. I also, however, feel…
Why Every Teacher Should Have a Professional Mission Statement, and How to Craft One
The idea of having a mission statement is not new: businesses, schools and non-profits have long espoused the practice as a way to define, give direction, differentiate, and motivate. Stephen Covey1 famously popularized the personal mission statement; Bruce Feiler2 is one of many authors who advocate a family mission statement. But what about a personal-professional…
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