Here's a round up of our May 2019 blog series about professional learning.
Category: writing workshop
How to Support New Teachers on Your Team: Strengthening Professional Learning
Although the numbers and reasons vary depending on the year and on the study, there’s no doubt that first-year teachers face challenges, and sometimes don’t make it past the first few years of their careers. One of the ways we can increase the likelihood of positive experiences and retention rates is by knowing how to support them.
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Strategies for Reading a Professional Text: Strengthening Professional Learning Blog Series
If you're like me, your to-be-read pile feels big and impossible! Let me share with you how I tackle my professional learning before, during, and after I've read a professional text.
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Digitally Organizing Your Resources: Strengthening Professional Learning
It’s hard to fathom how many sites, blog posts, articles, songs, images, videos, and more are available to teachers at any given moment. There are so many brilliant and generous educators creating and sharing their expertise, lessons, and ideas. The challenge is how to keep it all organized and accessible! In this post, I will share some ways I digitally organize my resources.
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Classroom SOLSC: Blogging into Week 5
It's week five of the Classroom SOLSC! If you aren't participating with your students but would like to support our student bloggers with comments, we welcome your support! Students are working so hard this month and comments are very motivating. Just click on the Padlet and select a class to read and respond to! This week we are talking about keeping the enthusiasm going in our second week of the challenge.
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Continuing Along the Narrative Pathway: Part 2
Almost every student could use these charts to identify what they were working on, how they were working on it, and whether or not they needed instruction of some sort of help.
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Classroom SOLSC: Blogging into Week 4
It's Week 3 of the Classroom SOLSC! If you aren't participating with your students but would like to support our student bloggers with comments, we welcome your support! Students are working so hard this month and comments are very motivating. Just click on the Padlet and select a class to read and respond to! This week we are talking about keeping the enthusiasm going in our second week of the challenge.
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Word Study That Sticks: Best Practices K-6 — Review and Giveaway
Are you looking for ways to make word study more inspiring, meaningful, practical and transferrable? Word Study That Sticks: Best Practices K-6 by Pamela Koutrakos is the resource you need to read! Check out my review of the book today and leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of the book!
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Classroom SOLSC: Blogging into Week 3
It's Week 3 of the Classroom SOLSC! If you aren't participating with your students but would like to support our student bloggers with comments, we welcome your support! Students are working so hard this month and comments are very motivating. Just click on the Padlet and select a class to read and respond to! This week we are talking about keeping the enthusiasm going in our second week of the challenge.
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Clearing pathways for narrative writing: Part 1
Once students can say their beginning, middle, and end, know what their story is really about, and can identify their important parts, they almost always can make a solid plan and feel comfortable beginning to draft. But sometimes it's hard to get them to this point in the process.
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Welcome to Writing Workshop: A Review and Giveaway
Do you have a copy of Welcome to Writing Workshop yet? This is a resource that every educator who works with writers needs. Today, I'm excited to share an inside look at this new resource!
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Disguising Engagement
True engagement is hard to miss. However, there are several look-a-likes out there. Some are called compliance and participation.
