A teacher from Texas reminded me this week of one of my favorite quotes. “Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.” I’ve been working my new (very new) job in DC for…
Sound Off Saturdays
So Write About It Wednesdays are a thing of the past… we are moving to Sound Off Saturdays! Setting a DAY for it and putting it in my calendar has worked, but Wednesdays won’t work any longer. I just got…
Cute Classrooms
One of my favorite things to do in my job is walk around a school when the teachers are at lunch! They leave and I begin to stalk their classrooms! Teachers are so fabulous and we can all get ideas…
Shopping for Books
Reader’s Workshop is a time of day when students are engrossed in reading books of their own choosing. It is a time of day when we are living a REAL READER’S LIFE- rather than a SCHOOL READER’S LIFE. Unfortunately, there…