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Published by Stacey Shubitz
Stacey Shubitz is a K-6 literacy consultant and former elementary teacher. She is the author of CRAFT MOVES and other professional books on writing workshop. Her new book, MAKE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WORK FOR YOUR CHILD WITH DISABILITIES (Guilford Press, 2026), empowers parents to navigate the special education system.
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Warning: this SOL is about preparing a workshop on Domestic Violence, and there are some disturbing images included.
http://girlgriot.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/painful-inspiration/
Reflecting on our many roles in the classroom.
http://teachinnature.blogspot.com
Baseball Cards
http://booksavors.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/slice-of-life/
http://learnmesumthin.blogspot.com/2010/03/slice-of-life-3182010.html
Very fun day, refreshed from a good night’s sleep
http://ktbear.livejournal.com/141557.html
Giant Rat – inflatable, not real (though the real kind may be running around my classroom at night, I prefer not to consider that possibility)
Starting Fresh, Tomorrow!
http://ellensruminations.blogspot.com/2010/03/whoohoo-it-is-almost-thursday-and-most.html
http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/slice-of-life-18-2/
March Madness
Softball in the sun
http://enbuscadeequilibrio.blogspot.com/2010/03/fun-in-sun-solc-18.html
reflections on writing
http://sowingseeds.edublogs.org/2010/03/18/day-18-random-reflections-of-a-writer/
http://cmramble.blogspot.com/2010/03/slice-of-life-1831.html
More about the re-organization of our home. Whoops I put my comment in the wrong place sorry about that.
Being a parent is heartbreaking sometimes.
http://www.sehacecamino.com/2010/03/slice-of-life-heartbreaker/
monkey town
http://boxofchocolates29.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/sols-march-18/
A poetry day mystery:
http://tmsteach.blogspot.com/2010/03/poetry-day-mystery.html
I’ve become an abolitionist: http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/ive-become-an-abolitionist-ruths-sols-1831/
Day 18 – One of the many things I do not do
http://minnesotatoiowa.blogspot.com/2010/03/one-of-many-things-i-do-not-do-solsc.html
-Carrie F.
Money is tight. Schools are closing. AND cuts are happening.
http://writeonkathy.blogspot.com/2010/03/cuts-are-happening.html
A poem for my son, who enters the Marine Corps on July 14. Tomorrow is parents night for the early enlistment program so it is on my heart.
http://barogers.edublogs.org/2010/03/18/my-son/
Mourning the loss of a beautiful tree…
http://darkstar11.edublogs.org/2010/03/18/slice-o-dogwood/
http://alotalot.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/slice-of-life-18-house-hunting/
Blogging is cheaper than therapy!
the pride of life
http://nataleestotz.blogspot.com/2010/03/solc-1831.html
how to measure success?
http://tswalkingthedog.blogspot.com/2010/03/immeasurable-objectives.html
http://theresapalinprincipal.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/march-18-2010/
Waltzing and newspapers
A change in plans
http://scatteredthoughtsmary.blogspot.com/2010/03/change-of-plans.html
Stop the Press
http://notebooksinhand.blogspot.com/2010/03/stop-press.html
Time Flies….5 years ago today memory
http://teachinginthetechfrontier.blogspot.com/2010/03/time-flies-slice-of-life-day-eighteen.html
Parent Teacher Interviews
http://snowflakes6.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/slice-of-life-challenge-2010-day-18/
My quirky one strikes again…
http://becoming-cathy.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-thoughtful.html
Day 18 – Student Teacher
http://lennyehestad.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-18-student-teacher.html
http://friendsbeyondhighschool.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/daylight-savings-meetings/
it will last but a few days so the living beings in our house found ways of delighting in… spring:
http://vabelles.blogspot.com/2010/03/ah-spring.html
http://myteachertown.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-18.html
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
day eighteen, can’t fight with everyone
http://olderlady.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/day-eighteen-slice-of-life
Classroom Publishing’s 2nd edition finally came out. I received my copy today. Very exciting!
http://slicesofmy2010life.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/classroom-publishing/
Can you relate to a crazy day??? Sometimes I don’t know how we keep it all straight… or, in my case, I understand how we don’t keep it all straight! 🙂
http://jenbaum-laughoftenlovemuch.blogspot.com/2010/03/solc-18-humility-is.html
Bravo!
http://caroline524.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/jungle-book/
Day 18: Ready to Go!
http://blessingsfromkorea.blogspot.com
in which I realize why this is the first time I have written anything in 12 years. I hate epiphanies.
http://njregensburg.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/slice-of-life-march-18-2010/
I must be on a interesting dream pattern-
http://dosomethingwonderfultoday.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-18-of-solsc.html
http://thewaytobetterwriting.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/slice-18/
http://oursmallmoments.blogspot.com/2010/03/two.html
http://dnsvm.blogspot.com/2010/03/slice-of-life-dog-on-roof.html
http://fredsmydog.blogspot.com/2010/03/teach-for-41-years.html
Teach for 41 years?!
wow – 18 days! well done slicers
http://liningupmywords.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/solc-18-id-rather/
At the Burns
http://blkdrama.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/burns-69365-slice-18/
Bonnie
Coffee and Karma almost simultaneously
http://livinglifetwice-alwrite.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-am-sitting-in-my-preferred-coffee.html
http://mmbay-wlb.blogspot.com/2010/03/mean-spirited.html
And we are … Dry Ice.
http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2010/03/18/slice-of-life-dry-ice-baby/
We play Quidditch at our school. Really.
Kevin
Walking in the Wildflowers, in which I disclose my current favorite music to grade by, among other things.
http://peninkpaper.blogspot.com/2010/03/wildflowers.html
Who doesn’t love a fun pair of socks?
http://readwriteinspire.blogspot.com/2010/03/square-dancing-and-crazy-socks.html