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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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