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AndersonGL

  1. Please let me know if you're interested in a strong elementary or high/middle school English teacher looking for a Chicagoland job.
  2. With only a few days left in the school year, 6 of my students joined @FigmentFiction this week. #ThisPleasesMe
  3. Our foreign exchange student just told me that the Italian title of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD translates as THE DARKNESS BEYOND THE EDGE.
  4. Our district just budgeted $22,000 for a consultant "to provide professional development." Hope we don't run out of conference funds again.
  5. We have our first confirmed guest for Writers Week XIX: the mighty Jim Wyman bit.ly/JWVOfu #ww19 bit.ly/aTZJRP
  6. @cathy_ingram I know what you mean. I always feel like rubrics for writing are more about grading quickly than about teaching or learning.
  7. Today's #E307 class journal topic: Tell about what you never learned.
  8. @jennann516 @mentortexts "Standards" should be seen as minimums, not goals. Complete them quickly and move on.
  9. @mentortexts @jennann516 Yes. Someone who doesn't read for enjoyment is unlikely to encourage or develop that trait in students.
  10. @jennann516 Do you mind saying what questions you asked?
  11. @jennann516 1. What have you been reading lately for personal enjoyment? 2. What do you do when a kid says, "I hate reading"? #nerdybookclub
  12. @shannonmmiller Thanks to you and so many others at #vanmeter for all of your inspiration this year. You are teachers on a grand scale.
  13. @MaryAnnReilly Yes, the presumption of a "right answer" is not useful for a complex text, esp. when that answer is culturally biased.
  14. @MaryAnnReilly An actual interesting lesson might be to read "Letter" and then do a "close reading" of the video.