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What went well
So let's start with the good news. My students reported on average having read more books than they did in the past and "actually liking reading" As a key goal after our start of the year conversations I was very happy to hear this. I have had students popping in the last few days to tell me they plan to come to visit my classroom library and get recommendations from me because it made it easier to find good books, another huge compliment. I saw massive gains in their writing, I witnessed poets finding their voice, and some great narrative works begin. We had a pretty good year and I am grateful for those things.
What didn't
I want to start this section with the disclaimer, I am pretty hard on myself. I wouldn't say things didn't work at all but not as well as I had hoped. Ok now that is out of the way, Voice and Choice is great and I know some of my readers might disagree with me but too much voice and choice is like absolute power, where one corrupts absolutely the other leads can lead students to a point of not getting their work done in a timely manner or always matching curricular outcomes. My second not so great will be reading conferences. I am still trying to work out the best way organizationally to run these in my room. I feel like I spent too much time stand and deliver teaching and then working around the room with all students when the ones that needed more of my time did not get it because I was always working with the whole class. We would have some good periods where conferencing and checking in was going great but then life got busy and kids fell behind on work and we would have work periods and silent reading fell to the side at times and...and...and My last one and it hurts my heart to say it was Notice and Note and BHH reflection, another victim of too much voice and choice emphasis I introduced these terms and things went great at the start, for some went great all year but as I know the potential power of these tools is great my regret is they were less than realized by a large chunk of my students.
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