Let’s pretend we live in a world where no students are ever tardy, there are no altered schedules (no joke: last year there were no fewer* than eight to ten different schedules depending on whether or not it was a morning assembly, afternoon, late start, etc.) The class period is 50 minutes long, after a… Read More 8 Days a Week
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”–Eleanor Roosevelt Confession: sometimes my mind, and actions, hits all three sides. Perhaps, though, there is form and function in all points: we need the ideas, we need to analyze events, and we strive to understand one another. Gossip and venting for its own… Read More Gentle giants.
We are having a grand conversation about the rigor of texts in our school, looking vertically both to the lower grades and the high school grades, to find appropriate, “rigorous” texts (as some define by high Lexile scores as the sole criteria). As with many shifts, if I don’t do the reading and thinking on… Read More The Write Thing.
You may all think I am evangelizing the mighty gospel of gaming, but that is not true. What I am promoting is relevance. My brother-in-law works for Blizzard games. He has been working 60-90 hour weeks for months on end. He is extremely talented and intelligent, like all of the Love brothers. He sent this… Read More Relevance.
Every teacher worth his salt knows about Piaget and Vygotsky. And I am not going to pretend or fake that I understand everything about their theories on cognitive development. When I was studying their work, it just made so much clear sense, that I embedded a golden nugget into my own brain, and that was this:… Read More In the Zone: Brain research, reading, and responding
Is there such a thing as “over-confidence?” How do we learn to know when we don’t know something? As I was looking over the recent assessments, one student wrote “[Yay I feel so accomplished! <3].” I trying to puzzle out how or why this student stated this, because the score was 37%. Was this… Read More Overconfidence.
“We need to teach our students to read like writers and write like readers.” –Kelly Gallagher
Dog Ear is one of the best book recommendation blogs for young adult readers. So, if you need to sit and read a book, go fetch one you might like, and don’t waste time chasing your tail. (And no, I’m not above pandering to you by using a cute photograph of an Aussie.) If you… Read More Dog Ear: A reader's best friend.
This article link content is NOT about your personal beliefs, or mine. It is about what we talked about (briefly) the other day — in addition to books, poetry and songs can also help us find answers to our questions–they speak to us. Another path is reading what other great thinkers/philosphers reflect upon, and consider.… Read More Charting your journey.
So, yeah. My folks live in Texas, and I love them. I am going to visit them this summer. In fact, I should be packing right now. Making a list and checking it twice. I wonder if the more one is resistant to traveling the more one needs the vacation in the first place? I… Read More Traveling lightly…a little heavily.
Mrs. Kelly Love 
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