the STRUGGLE: It took me awhile to make sense of “reading days.” I know it sounds ridiculous, but...
Four-Corners Reading Day
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Purpose Driven Discussions
the STRUGGLE: I’m constantly working towards creating more purposeful and authentic discussions in...
Paint Chip Discussions
the STRUGGLE: I often have trouble determining how engaged students are in discussion. There was a...
The Transition “Game”
the ASK: I noticed that in our writing and in our conversations, we were struggling to call on...
Sentence Stems for Helpful Peer Feedback
the ASK: I’m constantly struggling with ways to help students give more authentic feedback to each...
Vocabulary Families
the ASK: I never seem to have enough approaches to teaching vocabulary. Here, I wondered how I...
Magnets for Student Grouping
the ASK: I like to switch up groupings of students on a regular basis and am always wondering how...
Facetime Teaching
the ASK: I often wonder how to minimize the effects of being gone from class when I travel to work...
Audience is Everything: Teaching our Parents
the ASK: I know that audience is everything when comes to writing or creating, so I was curious...
Extended Definitions Go Digital
the ASK: After a week of thinking about and exploring the concept of hubris, I wondered how...
Student Voice at Parent-Teacher Conferences
the ASK: Our school has traditional parent/teacher conferences where we each have a table in the...
Question Stems
the ASK: I wondered how to help students go from passive and compliant during discussions to...