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I have written about picture books a lot over the course of my blog. I have no shame in admitting I love them. I love to use them in my class, I love to read them to my nieces and nephews and I love to read them after a long day. There is something aboutContinue reading “The Fountain of Youth”

With the last week of school officially starting today, I am looking at the week and what we will be doing to close out the year. One of the things I am doing with my grade 7 class is Reading Autobiographies. A friend of mine shared a coworkers post about them and I was inspired.Continue reading “An interesting process”

As the school year is coming to a rather quick close. I still remember the start of the school year and sharing picture books with my kids. I remember clearly moments like reading Mama by Jacqueline Woodson and a student having to excuse themselves overcome with emotion, I remember my first book talk of theContinue reading “Perspective and taking a step back”

This post has been bouncing around for the last few years if I am being honest. The topic started out as just an observation on school sports, mostly the adults of school sports. The coaches, the parents, the spectators, and how they set the example for our children and what is and is not acceptable.Continue reading “Who’s Watching”

Yup that is how many days I have left with my students this year, and before you get on a high horse or soap box and tell me that I shouldn’t be counting down, I am not. I am looking forward. I am looking forward to time to learn without the rush, to plan withoutContinue reading “17 days…”

How do we follow up the brilliance of Dr. Mary Howard? Well, I recruit a couple of my brilliant buddies for a follow-up post. If you happened to miss part one with Mary here is a link.  Today Curiosity Crew members Susan Vincent and Roman Nowak are sharing their views as it comes to reading,Continue reading “#curiositycrew “NO BOOKS FOR YOU” pt2″

I look back at that episode of Seinfeld and the Soup Nazi. That, “if you do this perfectly then you get the soup but one mistake, one thing out of place and NO SOUP FOR YOU” Last week a friend of mine shared an experience where their teaching was questioned by a “higher up” TheContinue reading “#curiositycrew “No Books for you” pt1″

Today as I sat out at my in-laws looking out at the mountains I read “For Every One” by Jason Reynolds. A letter to all the readers who jump into its pages. I reassurance to me that dreams are to be pursued, without a timeline but with passion. AS I read it I could notContinue reading “Living the Dream”

Such a simple word for a powerful process. Advancement, improvement, rise, success, gain, prosperity, maturing, evolution, all words used to describe becoming more than you were before. In teaching, we have this wonderful tool for growth called Professional Development. Opportunities to learn and to grow by surrounding ourselves with new ideas or new ways toContinue reading “Growth”

As the end of the year comes crashing down on us (doesn’t it always come faster than we think?) I took some time to reflect. If you are a regular reader you know I attended P!nk last week. It was amazing. Monday my students had a field trip for another class and then Wednesday I had aContinue reading “Just enjoy it”