Birmingham, Sharing, and 1.1

Birmingham, Sharing, and 1.1

First period  continued with the writing focus experiment. We added sharing into our daily writing workshop focus. It was the first peer conferencing session, so it was far from perfect, but we did well: Students got feedback and had an opportunity to perform a...
First Day Back

First Day Back

Welcome back! I’m thrilled to get back to work, and I know everyone else is, too. (And I am not being sarcastic: I wouldn’t joke about my commitment to education.) First period began a several-week experimental writing workshop model. We went over how...

Book Fair

All classes went to the spring book fair today. This year we were given only fifteen minutes in the fair, which seemed fair enough. Afterward, first and seventh periods began working on linking verbs, with the eventual goal of working on subject/verb agreement. Second...