Choice Lit Topic: Quote Collections
Quote Collections are just that—sets of quotes around a literacy or professional development theme. Provocative, funny, thoughtful—each collection has a range of quotes to spark discussion, focus inquiry, or foster reflection. These quotes might be used in study groups, shared between mentors and colleagues, or highlighted as a “Quote of the Month” in school newsletters.
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Invocation at the End of Summer
I call on the spirit of summer's end, of tangled roots and the earth's deep mold, a swollen sponge of mushroom and moss. Give me your hum. I call on...
Tips for Saving Time from Literacy Leaders
From many tasks accomplished, we asked our Choice Literacy contributors to share just one -- the way they were able to save time this year. What follows is a compilation...
Discussion Quote Collection
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community,...
Change Quote Collection
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. Maria Robinson The doors we open and close each day decide...
Poets on Notebooks Quote Collection
Why a journal? Well, I like writing that spills over. I want to live as much as possible at the ends of my fingertips rather than, say, in the capillaries...
Solving Problems Quote Collection
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. Abraham Maslow Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to...
Punctuation Quotes
In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy and the semicolon quietly practices the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is...
Writing to Reflect: Quotes for Quick Writing, Reflection, and Discussion (Download)
Educator Parker Palmer talks about the importance of "third things" for teacher renewal and growth—poems, images, or ideas outside our immediate learning community that we can look at together, discuss,...
Opinion Exchange: A Workshop Activity for Study Groups
What do new teachers need to keep them going that difficult first year? In our first session with new teachers in October, our room was filled with the stories of...
Opinion Exchange (E-GUIDE)
An "Opinion Exchange" is a wonderful activity for a study group session or faculty meeting to explore beliefs and build community around an area of interest. The activity also fosters...
