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Mary Brothers is starting her tenth year of teaching with Dublin City Schools where she has taught first, second, and fourth grades. Last year she was a Technology Support Teacher … Continue Reading Launching Writing Workshop in the Primary Grades: A Guest Blog Post by Mary Brothers
Ryan Scala has been teaching 4th grade (both as a general educator and a co-teacher working alongside a special education teacher in an inclusive setting) for the past nine years … Continue Reading Imagining Possibilities: A Guest Blog Post by Ryan Scala
Kristine Michael taught fourth grade for fifteen years before becoming the Curriculum Director for Granville Exempted Village Schools in Ohio. Kristine is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher in middle childhood … Continue Reading Confessions of a Lurking Writer: A Guest Blog Post by Kristine Michael
Caroline Gonzalez began her teaching career in New York City. During her 15 years in New York, she taught K, 1, 2, Transitional Bilingual, and Reading Recovery. She has completed … Continue Reading Boy Writers: A Guest Blog Post by Caroline Gonzalez
Kevin Hodgson. Kevin teaches sixth grade in Southampton, Massachusetts at the William E. Norris Elementary School, where his students use technology for publishing and creation throughout the year. He is … Continue Reading Guest Post: Threaded Adventures
Amanda Villagómez is a 6th-8th grade language arts teacher at a dual immersion school in Ontario, Oregon. She blogs about her teaching and learning at Snapshots of Mrs. V. Her … Continue Reading Guest Blog Post: A Blogging Adventure
Annie Campbell is a third grade teacher in Richmond, Virginia. She keeps a blog, Write Now in Room 204, which is a place for her to share her class’s daily … Continue Reading Listen Like a Writer: A Guest Blog Post by Annie Campbell
Jen Munnerlyn is a teacher, literacy coach, and international educator. Her family has been working in international education for 30 years beginning with her parents first overseas teaching assignment in … Continue Reading The Fun of Hard Work: A Guest Blog Post by Jen Munnerlyn
Alan currently works as an education consultant, and is based in Victoria, Australia. He works across public and independent schools in both primary and secondary school settings. From 2001 until … Continue Reading Guest Blogger: Alan Wright: First We Need to Rehearse
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is a writing teacher and children’s poet in Holland, NY. You can read her daily children’s poem and find writing ideas, book recommendations, and tips for students … Continue Reading Poetry & Structure: Falling in Love… and Holding it Together — A Guest Blog Post by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Elizabeth Eastmond teaches English at a local community college near her home in Southern California. You can find her writings at peninkpaper.blogspot.com or occasionalpiece.blogspot.com. I remember that day pretty clearly. … Continue Reading Good Teacher: A Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Eastmond
Mary Alice Gruppi is a middle school language arts teacher who morphed into an elementary administrator. Currently she is the principal of a K-5 school. She blogs at There’s a … Continue Reading Make a Simple Summer Journal by Mary Alice Gruppi
Our first Guest Blog Post of the summer is written by Sarah Mulhern, who is a sixth grade teacher in New Jersey. Sarah blogs at The Reading Zone. When Stacey … Continue Reading The Doors of Poetry: Guest Blog Post by Sarah Mulhern
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