April 22, 2022 2 How to Use Learning Journeys to Facilitate Student-Led Learning After spending a year and a half in remote learning, many of our students were having difficulty returning to [...]
February 25, 2022 2 Reigniting the Reading Flame After a year and a half of remote learning, we’re finally back in the classroom and we can’t wait [...]
October 10, 2021 0 Empowering Students Through Self-Assessment of the Writing Process Sandy is busily writing the first draft of her personal narrative in 7th grade language arts. Ten minutes [...]
August 29, 2020 1 Making Virtual Class Discussions Engaging Using the TQE Method, Breakout Rooms, and Self-Assessment Example of one group’s work in our virtual TQE discussion. A couple of years ago, I came across [...]
May 23, 2020 2 Lessons from Virtual Learning: How to Improve Assessment I’m not very proud of what I’m going to write, since I can’t believe it took me so long to [...]
January 25, 2020 0 Differentiated Grammar Lessons I have a confession to make: I’m a language arts teacher who has always dreaded teaching grammar. Part [...]
December 7, 2019 6 Three Reasons We Should Still Teach Creative Writing in Secondary In language arts classes, as our students move into upper secondary school, teachers tend to move away from [...]
September 24, 2018 4 Reading Aloud in Secondary Recently on a Twitter chat, some teachers raised the question of reading aloud to students, mentioning that [...]
September 2, 2018 0 Using Student Work as Mentor Texts Every time we make a change in the classroom, there are unexpected repercussions. Some positive, some more [...]
March 3, 2018 2 Using Student Mentor Texts In Writing Workshop For the past six weeks, in my Language Arts class, I’ve been experimenting with what I call [...]