Today Is a Good Day for Readers anavpatton.org/2021/07/12/tod…

There's a “before Liz and after Liz” when I describe my creative moments. Before her, I'd sense an idea approaching and, instead of dropping whatever I was doing to write it down, I'd stay in the moment, and the idea would pass by me. Now, the idea matters more. #BeachThoughts

One of the hardest elements of fully scripted curriculum is that so much of teaching is dynamic and unscripted.

Giving Twitter another chance. This used to be a place of such joy for me.

Teaching 4th-grade writing has changed me. And to make sense of what I'm learning, I'm blogging about our latest unit. Here's the first of five posts: Boxes and Bullets: Week 1 anavpatton.org/2022/01/22/box…

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Excited about this coaching cycle with amy (she/her/ella) and all the things we'll learn from each other! #Literacycoaching #WritingTeachers

A new vulnerable post about teaching reading in upper ES. A Reading Teacher anavpatton.org/2022/02/26/a-r… via Ana Valentina Patton

Somehow I started writing about a rooster near my building, and this post came to be. Forgiving anavpatton.org/2022/04/02/for…

There is a special place in my heart for interactive read-aloud. The one ⁦Christy Curran⁩ taught me. The one I never want to stop planning and doing. anavpatton.org/2023/01/17/thi…

On Conferring, Again. anavpatton.org/2023/09/18/on-…

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I might as well treat this as I did in 2008.

Shouldn't just leave it there. What else can I tweet? (Can I still call it that?) Oh, I had a baby almost a year ago. She's amazing and sings in her sleep.

Is staring into a void instead of doing productive stuff while baby naps an acceptable thing to do?

Sending tweets out there for no reason feels like a productive thing to do while baby naps. Better than writing progress reports, for sure!

Our second awake window today consisted of climbing onto any surface we could find, surfing from one piece of furniture to the next, and trying to find Spot again. Surprise, surprise, he was in the basket! #WhoReadsThis

Parent procrastination is waiting until you see baby playing with the camera to decide it's finally time to move it father away.

I'm writing an "about me" section for a new site I'm joining. Everyone else includes their Twitter handle, so I guess I should, too. But when I came over here to dust things off, I thought, "If I add my handle, I should at least update the feed." So, hi.