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Elisa Waingort

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A Teacher Musing Out Loud

  • My Daughters are Home

    Posted to Two Writing Teachers Tuesday Slice of Life Challenge The house is full. My daughters are home. I still say “home” even though it’s not really home to them anymore. It’s not the home they grew up in, not where they lived for 4 years and 10 years when they were little and before… Read more

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  • Advocacy

    Some late night ramblings about advocating for our students. Thanks to @margaretsmn for provoking us on #DigiLitSunday.Advocacy – to speak out for those who may not be able to do so for themselvesbecause they’re afraid,they don’t know how orthey can’t.To be the voice of our students. To speak out means torisk being labeled a troublemaker,not a team… Read more

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  • Daily Writing Habit

    So, as some of you who have read my recent ruminations may know,I have decided to blog every day.Not because I have so much to say that I need to publish something every day,but because by making my writing public every day,I have made a commitment to a daily writing habit.So, barring any unusual circumstances… Read more

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  • What Needs to Change…

    The concerns addressed in this post have been brewing in my head for a while.I just hadn’t sat down to articulate them…until now.Any resemblance to recent or future contexts is purely coincidental.What is depicted here is a generic portrait of institutionalized thinking around professional development..This post is written as an interrogation between an imaginary reporter (IR)… Read more

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  • Earth Day

    Earth Day is designated     as the one day during the year to focus on the environment.A day to honor Mother Earth.A day to renew our commitment to the environmentby changinghabits and activitiesdetrimental to a healthy Earth.The first Earth Day took place more than 40 years ago.A lifetime for some,but a second of time in the history of the Earth.It’s ironic, given… Read more

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  • Celebrating Wonderings

    Celebrating Wonderings Warning: this post is full of questions. No definitive answers, yet. Maybe never. This is an ongoing process. The answers change. The questions may stay the same. Either way, I’m on a constant search for improvement. I’m currently wondering: How to teach all that I know is important for the students I have this… Read more

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  • Waiting

    Waiting is hard for me to do. I’ve written about this before.If not, I’ve thought about this before.A lot. I try to talk myself out of thinking about what I’m waiting for,but I can’t. I try to be reasonable.I say things like, “Let go. Let the universe take care of things.”But, I can’t. I take… Read more

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  • 6-word memoir

    A six word memoir. Change  is  scary. Complacency  is  death. Read more

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  • Electrical Storm

    This afternoon there was an electrical storm.Apparently, we’ll be experiencing these more often this monthat the same time that the bad weather starts to diminish.Hopefully, May will be a better month, for the weatherand for changes I am hoping for. Winter here has never been like this before.In fact, we’ve never had an actual weather… Read more

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  • Reflections for Student Led Conferences

    Today we spent most of the morning getting ready for student led conferences.Rather than describe how hard students worked and how much they got done, which they did, I decided to let their words about reading and writing grace this post. What follows are a sprinkling of comments about their learning this year.In response to… Read more

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