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Language is Powerful
This week it seems the opportunity to discuss language be it written, read or spoken, and the power that comes with it has popped up many...
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The Weaponization of Kindness
This week I read an amazing post by Doug Robertson also known as @TheWeirdTeacher on Twitter and it can be found here. It is a great post...
What is the message?
Basketball season is kicking off pretty quickly. The final days of football and volleyball season are fast approaching. Tryouts for...
With Gratitude 2019
Today I started the day by playing with a room of delightful 18-month to 3 year olds at church, had a delightful meal with family and...
Lifting Literacy- Training requires increase.
Sitting at PD with Donalyn Miller taking a little time to reflect on Monday and some moments. I spent the weekend reading through some of...
Digging Out
Last Friday night it started to snow. It started to snow a lot. By Saturday afternoon we had a couple inches of snow on the ground. By...
Just let them have a sticker
It is funny, a while back I saw a post that discussed how kids don't care about Gold Star stickers. In the moment I had read it and...
Lessons Learned in 3 Weeks
Ok I want to start by saying that today was a great day. It was the first full teaching day that I felt was a success in each class. I...
Notice and Note and the First Full Week
It is no secret to anyone that reads my blog, I am a huge fan of Notice and Note. I am a fan of the conversations and realizations my...
Welcome to Room 157
The Year Begins Tomorrow Standing beside the river catching toadlets with my nieces and nephews I couldn't help but take a moment and...
Here we go
Saturday morning and I find myself in my room trying to get things ready. I have struggled with that term "ready". I don't know why this...
10 years
A reflection My first teaching position started in September of 2010. I just realized that this will be my 10th year teaching as I...
Because if we aren't learning...
In two and a half weeks I will be sitting in my classroom getting ready for my students to come the following week. I love these last few...
Seeking Inspiration
This summer has been an interesting one for my learning. I have alternated between reading PD books and YA/MS texts that I will be adding...
Learning can be uncomfortable
I have spent the month of July doing what I love. I have tanned, I have read some amazing books, I have played with my dogs, planned for...
The "what" still matters
I am loving summer break. The chance to relax, read good books, hang out with friends, play video games, clean the classroom and get some...
My other side
Those of you who read the blog know that I am pretty passionate about teaching and literacy. While of course this is true, literacy work...
Is it worth it
This morning I was in a funk. I was hitting up my always inspirational twitter after a great workout out but something was off. My dear...
That's a wrap
Today marks the first Monday of summer holidays. We wrapped up the year last Thursday with our grad ceremony for the grade 12 students....
Adventures in...
So for the last few weeks (8 give or take) we have been working on various projects in Room 157. The Grade 7's have been working on "My...
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