Christy Rush-Levine shares her system for streamlining passing papers and offering a place for private feedback.
Quick Take: Using Mailboxes for Private Feedback
Christy Rush-Levine
Christy Rush-Levine has been a middle school language arts teacher since 2000, a Choice Literacy contributor since 2014, and a college instructor since 2017. She lives and works in a suburb of Chicago. Christy blogs at interstice: not the lines; the spaces between. She can be found on Twitter (@CRushLevine) and Instagram (@rushreads and @rushcl).
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