Thoughts
Journaling With My Daughters
One highlight of my daughter’s sixth birthday is her new family dialogue journal. She picked out her composition notebook covered in rainbow hearts on Saturday morning’s shopping trip. I planned to wrap it, but she snuck it out of the bag and beat me to the first...
Teacher-Writers Revise
Writers don’t write. They rewrite. As a teacher-writer, I welcome the inherent challenges of rewriting. Even this short blog post took more rewrites than I anticipated! Yet, isn’t that always the case with writing? Teaching others to embrace the myriad opportunities...
Getting Started
Teachers: Have you ever said goodbye to your students, only wishing you could teach them for a bit longer? Letting go has always been hard for me whether it was my third-grade students, my elementary readers I supported as a literacy specialist, or my preservice or...