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I write about teaching, learning, thinking, education, leading, and caring for teacher-as-human.
Read about my in-real-life classroom teaching experiences, planning for diverse learners, the joys and frustrations that are inherent in teaching, specific plans and ideas to stimulate reading, writing, and thinking, the constant revisioning and rethinking that is the hallmark of great teaching and leading, and the real-time changes, adaptations, successes and failures that happen daily in the work.
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Work with Me
Educators want and deserve to feel creative, confident, and connected; some can find that on their own; for most of us, we derive it from a simple and yet often elusive source: feeling and being supported in our work.
We want to know we have people who eagerly serve as sounding boards, who ask thought-provoking questions, and who offer guidance to help us be our best selves with our students and our colleagues.
Services
These services are intended to nurture teachers & leaders who are committed to personal growth and expanding opportunites for student voice & choice.
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Teacher Talk-Throughs
1-1 or small group gatherings where we look at an idea, problem, concept, text, endeavor, and talk it through together to meet the educator’s or team’s goal. Check out 'Curricular Support' for ideas.
60 minute single sessions; packages / group sessions available.
Curricular Support
Together we can create a new curriculum / course, workshop teaching practices, design a program.
Collaboration and workshop topics include but are not limited to:
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increasing student engagement to generate student ownership of learning;
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facilitating inquiry-based learning;
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choosing contemporary texts for whole class and book club reading journeys;
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shifting from whole-class to student-chosen texts;
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building writers through authentic writing;
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designing projects, units, and courses;
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using schools of literary criticism / critical literary theory to facilitate complex thinking and intuitive development of students’ writing voices;
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integrating arts, history, science, and literary / cultural studies;
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using contemporary poetry to create and inspire readers and writers of poetry;
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developing reflection practices to support personal and organizational goals.
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