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Lately I’ve been reading lots of tweets and posts from teachers about a new kind tired. That overwhelms. And, lately, I’ve been feeling it, too. It seeps through my body at the end of the day even though it wasn’t there minutes before. It’s the kind of tired that I usually experience at the beginning… Read more

Some days are worse than others. Despair comes suddenly; the world is just too much to bare. This day. Cross posted to the Two Writing Teachers Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge. Read more

I wrote this poem in preparation for Writing Workshop class with my students tomorrow. The template I will offer my students is slightly different from this one (a big thank you to Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski from her poetry Google Slides Deck to build community in the classroom. Elisa. Resourceful, goofy, nerdy. Partner of Gino; mother… Read more

In one more day another Spring Break will be in the books. Monday night I will be setting three alarms – yep, three! – so that I can wake up at a reasonable hour. On Tuesday I will joyfully welcome students back even if I can’t see their faces behind their Google Meet squares. Even… Read more

Today, I’m writing a bop. This is a 3-stanza poem. Stanza #1 is six lines long and presents a problem. Stanza #2 is eight lines long and explores or expands on the problem. Stanza #3 is six lines long and presents the solution or shows the failed attempt at a resolution. Each stanza is followed… Read more

Wow! I can’t believe today is the last day of this year’s Slice of Life Challenge. I have sliced every day and commented on the posts of slicers. My writing evolved in ways that I hadn’t anticipated. My #OLW for 2021 is evolve. Most of this month’s slices were about changing and growing. My #OLW… Read more

About a week ago, I wrote about wanting (and needing) to focus on my reading life because for some reason I haven’t been able to read for extended periods of time, much less finish anything that I start. I committed to reading for a total of one hour every day. Although I haven’t timed myself,… Read more

For the last post in this three-part series about online teaching, I want to deviate from sharing another list of takeaways and instead take a moment to write about some big picture moments. What do I mean by big picture moments? Well, big picture moments are those moments when I felt almost normal. When it… Read more

In this blog post I list four more takeaways of teaching online. See yesterday for part #1. (1) Continue to use Padlet for well, just about anything you can think of! In addition to using Google Docs, Slides, Forms and other Google products, I’ve created Padlets for a variety of tasks and purposes. The most… Read more

This is the first of three posts. As this school year winds down, I’ve started thinking about what I’ve learned from teaching online that I can transfer back into an in person space. Some of you may be thinking it’s too early to be doing that. After all it’s only the end of March. But… Read more