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Hidden Treasures II Podcast with Jen Schwanke
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is Hidden Treasures During Pandemic Teaching. Jen Schwanke joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big...
The Daily GIF
Each morning, our school’s administrative assistant, Jenni, sends out an email with the morning’s daily update. It summarizes the day’s staff absences and reminds everyone of any big events for...
Student-Centered Learning Through Video Lessons
When we first started hearing the terms synchronous and asynchronous being thrown around casually as if we’d been using them forever in education, we thought about synchronized swimming. When we...
Online Writing Notebooks
I have been using writer’s notebooks in some form in my classroom for nearly 15 years. During this time, the notebooks have evolved in my quest to make them as...
Hidden Treasures Podcast with Dana Murphy
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is Hidden Treasures During Pandemic Teaching. Dana Murphy joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the...
Coaching Through the Student Door
The number-one thing teachers never have enough of is time. During pandemic teaching, time is even more precious, because planning tasks takes much longer as we all think about how...
COVID Silver Linings: Positive Changes in Teaching Practices
Whether you're teaching remotely or in a socially distanced classroom (or some combination of the two), no doubt you have made substantial changes to your teaching practice this school year....
A Minimalist Classroom
I walked in and got teary eyed. My classroom didn’t look right and it didn’t feel right. My classroom felt awkward, and I didn’t know where to start. I had...
The Choice Literacy Book Club Discusses Little Brown by Marla Frazee
Enjoy listening as the Choice Literacy Book Club discusses Little Brown by Marla Frazee. Click here for the Choice Literacy Book Club about Little Brown by Marla Frazee. This...
Word Work Podcast with Mandy Robek
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is Word Work. Mandy Robek joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter...
Fun with Sight Words
I love learning my SIGHT WORDS! I have fun with SIGHT WORDS! This musical ditty rang loud and proud through the first-grade wing in my school. Hearing this musical excitement...
Using Shared Writing to Nudge Students Toward Conventional Spelling
I reached out to Nikki, my literacy coach, with this question: How do I shift great letter-sound correspondence to conventional spelling? From discussing ideas and things I was seeing in...
Building Empathy Through Reading Podcast with Matt Renwick
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is Building Empathy Through Reading. Matt Renwick joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big...
COVID: What I’ll Keep
As I write this, we are finishing a year of pandemic life, and we educators have lost a lot: time, instruction, resources, security, and even the surety of activities that...
Soft Starts to Meetings That Build Empathy
The most meaningful professional development opportunities we’ve had have been ones where we’ve learned effective practices to use with kids by doing the work of a reader or writer ourselves....
Empowering Readers Podcast with Sara Kajder
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is Empowering Readers. Sara Kajder joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter...
Trust Your Tools. Trust Your Teachers
A teacher asked me if she should have her students journal digitally or in print. “Which do you think is best?” she asked. We were meeting for our fall individual...
Multiple Perspectives Cultivate Empathy
Empathy is the highest form of intelligence. —Anthony Gucciardi Emotions are the gatekeepers to learning, and empathy opens the way for students to invest in and care about others. This...
Building Informed Empathy with Picture Books
In a second-grade classroom reading workshop, completely remote this year, students gather around the virtual hearth to read independently. The teacher, Mrs. H, has set students up to stop and...
When a Library Whispers
During the day, my classroom is active and lively with lots of reading and writing and sharing and learning. When the students go home and I am by myself, the...
Hiring Teachers for Today and Tomorrow
“Due to retirement, Mineral Point Elementary School is searching for a highly qualified fifth-grade teacher. In addition to appropriate licensure, the highly qualified candidate will possess the following knowledge, skills,...
