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How Well Do You Know Your Team? Checking In On Our Relationships with Teachers
It’s all about relationships. Take the time to create and nurture your relationships with teachers. Creating relationships is top priority. I recall words such as these flowing repeatedly from the...
Yoga Poses and Workshop Processes: Honor the Journey
It’s still dark outside when I descend the stairs, careful not to wake my sleeping children with sounds of creaky floorboards. When I arrive at the mat, I cross my...
How Pictures Can Engage and Inspire Writers
One time, I watched a second grader work on an information piece about a favorite farm in town. As she wrote about the buildings, she squeezed her eyes closed. “I...
Writers’ Club
One of the first things I loved about school as a child was the clubs. Not the clubs that teachers led, although those were fun, but the clubs my friends...
Perspectives Podcast with Stella Villalba
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is Perspectives. Stella Villalba joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter with...
Fine-Tuning Our Coaching with an Equalizer Model
When I was a kid, my dad had a component stereo system. In addition to the cassette deck, turntable, and receiver, he had an equalizer. The dials, switches, horizontal fader...
Welcome Slides Set Professional Learning in Motion
The beginning of staff meetings was normally a flurry of activity, getting set up, checking in with colleagues, and passing out any materials while the hubbub of catching up and...
Beyond Personal Narrative: A Change in Perspective
We spend a lot of time in our classrooms giving our writers opportunities to develop their skills at personal narrative. After all, telling a story we know well allows us...
Mother Language Day and Tradition Presentations
At the beginning of the year I take time to build community among the students in my classroom. We get to know each other through various activities and games. We...
Finding the Purpose in Antiracist Literature Instruction
As a teacher in an all-White rural high school, I know that it is important to introduce my students to diverse perspectives and to tackle conversations about topics such as...
Connections Podcast Brian Sepe
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is Connections. Brian Sepe joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter with...
Mantras Matter
Everyone deserves a thought partner is a mantra that anchors my beliefs and guides my behaviors. I say it often. Sometimes in my head. Sometimes in the company of colleagues....
Finding a Way to Make Heterogeneous Grouping a Reality
The key to ending racism and racist acts of violence within our society is to examine what is taking place in our classrooms. —Tauheedah Baker, Doctor of Education Leadership, Harvard...
Making Connections with Sociograms
My 11th-grade English class had just spent the week reading John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men aloud. We had just returned from hybrid instruction, and it was one of the...
The Choice Literacy Book Club Discusses Neville by Norton Juster and G. Brian Karas
Enjoy listening as the Choice Literacy Book Club discusses Neville by Norton Juster and G. Brian Karas. Click here for the Choice Literacy Book Club about Neville. This year the...
What’s the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About . . . ?
We've been meeting each week this spring with a group of teachers pre-K through grade 12, all of us exploring literacy teaching in our classrooms around our teacher research questions....
End-of-Year Reflections Podcast with Leigh Anne Eck
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is End-Of-Year Reflections. Leigh Anne Eck joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh...
Wrapping Up the School Year: Start, Stop, Keep
In no year—a year testing our limits with challenges, grief, and loss—has it been more important to reflect on our time with students and determine next steps for how we...
From Seed to Blossom
The beginning of the school year is full of anticipation and potential. We begin to plant the seeds of learning and plan the ways we want to nurture those seeds...
A Complete Circle: Identity, Growth, and Community
Kailey put her head down on the desk, frantic with giggles. I walked over to her, and she looked up at me with watery eyes, almost crying with laughter, trying...
Words of Wisdom and Passing the Torch
This fall when my students arrived in Room 236, they were greeted by a wall of frames. Inside those frames were words of affirmation and encouragement that had been created...
