Poetry is alive. It surrounds us, breathing life into our Instagram feeds, popping up as videos on Facebook, nestling into our daily lives. If you follow the conversation on Twitter around #teachlivingpoets you’ve likely been introduced to poems from writers like Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, and Rupi Kaur. According to a study released from the …
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Multigenre Magic
Teacher goosebumps. We’ve all had them: students are focused, consulting their Writer’s Notebooks, talking to each other, incorporating what they learned into their writing. It’s what we live for. No moment in the academic year ever evokes this synchrony more than the multigenre project. Defining Through Experience Like my students, you might be wondering what …
Getting Around the Gradebook: How (and Why) to Go Gradeless
I spent a good portion of my spring break last week catching up on reading all of my students’ writing, and their thinking was a real treat. It is a blessing to work with preservice teachers, whose idealism and energy remind me of the optimistic fervor with which I tackled any challenge that came my …
#NCTE17 – Pearls of Wisdom From Those Far Smarter Than I
Have you ever attended professional development that reached into your soul and stirred things up so thoroughly, so deliciously, so deliriously, that you knew your teaching would never be the same? I hope so. If not, consider packing your bags for #NCTE18 – Houston next fall. Or book some inspirational PD for your district. Or simply …
Ready or Not, #NCTE17, Here We Come
Sometimes November is too much fun. I keep telling myself that as I plan for my six children, two new son-in-laws, and five little grandkiddos to come home for Thanksgiving — not two or three days after I get a good night’s sleep and recover from the extraordinary time I expect to have at NCTE …
Write with Three Teachers Talk
A strong community has many voices, and we are seeking to grow ours at Three Teachers Talk. We’d like to invite you to join the conversation around readers-writers workshop in your high school English class. Credibility spikes when you share your writing with your students, but for a wider audience of your contemporaries, your voice …
18 Quotes & a Call for Connection
We all know the value of mentor texts. We use them for read alouds, to model thinking, to dig deep and find meaning, to teach an author’s moves, sentence structure, and more. Some of us collect them, storing them safely among other valuable collections. We keep a stash for studying craft, earmarking books in the hopes …
6 Takeaways from Student Self-Assessments
After completing self-assessments in Tom Romano‘s classes in college, and finding them invaluable, I’ve always made them a large part of my teaching arsenal. At the end of every year, we spend a few days on SAs, or they’re part of the final exam, or they’re what we share as a last-day-of-class celebration. This semester, …
Have you asked students what they need? It is not too late
I am great at taking notes. I am lousy at looking back at them (a lot like my students). But my student teacher is done with his semester, and am back reading and writing with my students each day. We’ve done a little AP exam crunch — our exam is today — and we are all ready …
Two Take-Aways from Mentoring my Student Teacher
Next week I get my students back. For 12 weeks I’ve had Joseph as a student teacher, and I’ve come to really miss my kids. It’s an exciting time. I am hoping I get my writing mojo back, too. I’ve struggled with topics to write about since I haven’t been working with my students day …
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