Come join Troy and myself for a week long Institute July 20-25! As opportunities for digital reading and writing continue to grow, teacher leaders must continue to develop their own digital literacy […]
Killing Passion for Reading in March
March is over and another year has passed where elementary teachers have celebrated reading with “March is Reading” month. I like a party as much as the next person. I love socializing, […]
Fighting the Good Fight with Technology in the Classroom
Last Monday I had a chance to present and talk with teachers at our local writing project site; the Chippewa River Writing Project. There were many great sessions where I took a […]
Teachers Reflecting
I was a basketball coach for almost 12 years at all levels and as a coach I always reflected after each practice, game, and season how I could be better individually and […]
Have I Failed?
For the last two weeks I have been struggling with my 8th graders when it comes to writing. It all came to a head for me last week when I asked one […]
1 on 1 With Young Writers
Today I spent a considerable amount of time meeting with my students individually about their writing. While I was doing this, the rest of my students were walking through a checklist making […]
Flipping Grammar
Last year, my principal approached our science teacher and myself to think about the idea of flipping some lessons in our classroom. Since we have the ability to do so we thought […]
