I had to be on a conference call in the morning, and I missed the first two sessions of the day–but my pre-service teachers took amazing notes for me to learn from later. AND I had the treat at the Slicer dinner of seeing LeeAnn Spillane’s absolutely gorgeous sketchnotes. (Read more about her beautiful notebooks…
Every year at NCTE, I look forward to the moment when The Paper Graders’ daily learning reflection pops up in my feed. It’s such a powerful way to capture and keep learning. Every year, I want to write my own, and every year I make excuses for how tired I am at the end of…
Sunday Salon was on hiatus last week because I was traveling, so readers get an extra special long collection of links this week! Easy is a compliment! Michelle explains why we should all want our classes to be easy. Michelle also shared a neat experience where her students ended up live tweeting with…
Ruth Ayres hosts Celebrate every Saturday. I love my Saturday mornings. My husband works late on Friday nights and usually sleeps in until 9:30 or 10. My older son is in teenager sleep mode on weekends and would probably sleep all day. And my younger son is happy to stay in his room looking at…
This week, I am celebrating the beginning of a new semester. First weeks are always very hectic for me. I have good intentions about preparing early so that first week will be stress-free and smooth, but I like to use all the time I have during breaks to generate ideas and create, to think about…
If you’re a Buffy fan–and I hope you are!–you can read this post while playing “Where Do We Go From Here?” Because I’m thoughtful like that. “Where do we go from here?” is the theme song for the end of all of my courses for pre-service teachers. By the end of the semester, we may achieve…
Today, I’m tackling another question posed by one of my Methods students: What if I am not a good teacher? What if I fail? Yes, I know, these are technically two questions, but they are related so they count as one. (My blog. My rules.) These are serious questions I have about my future as…
Hey look! It’s me on Twitter, nearly 2000 tweets ago! One thing I did A LOT at #NCTE13 was encourage teachers to get on Twitter. If you’re not on Twitter, you think this is what you’re going to find, right? What I love so much about this is that it had been retweeted over 11K…
I have arranged my tweets and retweets from #NCTE13 to tell a particular story of my learning at the conference: [View the story “#NCTE13 Recap ” on Storify]
