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The Epic Nevertheless, Starring You
Teaching in a pandemic: It’s not pretty, but it’s pretty epic. Reframe the school year and fight. Be the hero of your own epic, nevertheless.
Teaching in a pandemic: It’s not pretty, but it’s pretty epic. Reframe the school year and fight. Be the hero of your own epic, nevertheless.
Correcting student writing got you down? Try some fresh assessment methods for focusing on growth in the high school English classroom.
By Jessica Salfia My classroom is a strange place to me these days. Desks are spaced far apart. My reading rug, easy chair, and bean bags in my book nook are gone. My snack table Read more…
Teaching in 2020 is nothing less than surreal. Consider seven imperatives to prevent yourself from being swallowed up by this school year.
By: Liz Jorgensen If you are like me, you are taking things one day at a time this school year, trying to keep your head above water as you redesign basically every lesson you have Read more…
It is so tempting to center ourselves in our work as teachers. It makes sense why this might happen. As an old friend of mine says, “We make the work, we do the work, we grade the work.” We stay in our own classrooms, or now, as COVID may have it, behind our own screens, as our students rotate in and out, traversing a broader educational landscape and navigating the complexities of their lives beyond school. I’m sometimes guilty of thinking...