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Valued and Validated: Making Time for Journaling
Valuing and validating your students’ voices is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. Here are four reasons responding to student journals should become part of your teaching practice.
Valuing and validating your students’ voices is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. Here are four reasons responding to student journals should become part of your teaching practice.
Teacher-friend, escape the drab November of the soul by injecting novelty into your days: lean into life and take a chance. Here are three concrete ways for you do have a Novel November personally and professionally.
Students should be the prime stakeholders in their education. Let’s teach our students to create the future they choose. Vision Letters and Mission Statement Collages can help students set goals for life.
By Karla Hilliard The single most important thing we can do as teachers is know our students and honor their identities. Without intentionally seeking to learn our students’ names, experiences, cultures, communities, faiths, families, and evolving selves, we erode the opportunity for real connection and deep and meaningful learning. Many Read more…
By: Toni M. Poling There is something about the first few days of the month of May that makes me happy. The air is perfumed with lilac and the books in my classroom windowsills are dappled with sunlight. If there was a Maypole outside, I wouldn’t be able to resist Read more…