These quotes from Lucy Calkins, Kathleen Tolan & Alexandra Marron are speaking to me tonight! #tcrwp If we aren't empowering our students to be independent & transfer skills, then we are just lifting the level of today's writing piece. Celebrating progress& opportunities to grow!

Third grade Dawe School Dragons were excited to create their book club norms, rules, and identity!📝📖 #TCRWP

It was a schoolwide reading festival today with the WilkinsWildcats !! Book buddies read books that they had written themselves as well as texts from their favorite authors! #booklove #ReadAcrossAmerica Stoughton Schools

#tcrwp How are you studying your libraries to UPDATE them and make them more culturally relevant? How are you organizing bins and topics? How are you finding books #ownvoices #weneeddiversebooks ? How are your kids curating shelves and baskets? readingandwritingproject.org/resources/reco…

My heart is filled! ❤️ After a lesson about the role a secondary character plays in the main character’s journey, a 3rd grader said, “Mrs. Dowd you’re a secondary character in our journey to learn workshop.” 🙌🏼 #coachesdream #tcrwp

You’ve been to Target, Market Basket, and BJs, but have you been to the library or book store???📖 🧚‍♀️ #thebookfairyisprepared #CoronavirusPandemic

Here is a picture of my niece and nephews enjoying a read aloud from the Boom Fairy! Check out ⁦The Book Fairy⁩! If you don’t follow her, you should!

Visit @ReadwithTheBookFairy on Facebook for daily read alouds at 10am! All videos are taken down by 9pm. 📖🧚‍♀️

Writers are readers and readers are writers!

Connect with your class!💻They need to see you! First we shared a high & low of the week. We then introduced our pets!🐶Finally we shared what we were reading & ALL THEIR BOOKS WERE AN ARMS LENGTH AWAY!🙌🏼 Homework is to get outside!🌳☀️ Samantha Radeff

For my Dawe School Dragons in Stoughton Schools: I made a website for each grade level with music activities and learning experiences which will be continually updated with new resources! Check it out here: sites.google.com/stoughtonschoo… #MusicEducation

I have a challenge for all the Dawe School Dragons this week: Complete an activity from my padlet padlet.com/d_egan1/3d0wq0… and record it on the activity log found on the padlet. Have Fun! Mr. Egan

It was great to have some laughs with colleagues this morning!❤️We miss school as much as our students! Dawe School Dragons Stoughton Schools

Coming together with colleagues from our district, state, and country has been a silver lining of this whole experience. Thank you #edCampNQ

Today we went back to the basics & "Made a Plan" for our at home reading lives! B made his own reading spot& sign to show when he mustn't be disturbed 🤣 #agency #voice #makingareadingplan ...also tried to steal my make a plan chart.... going to have to get him his own post its!

I'm concerned with how little the safety of teachers, admin, & support staff are discussed in the conversation about safely reopening schools in the fall. Student learning is absolutely a priority, and the health of the adults facilitating that learning should be important, too.

This is where these 3 students like to do their SPS Summer Reading. Where is your student’s favorite place to do theirs? Outside? Couch? Beach? Bed? If you have a photo you’d like to share, email it to [email protected] with SPS Summer Reading in the subject line.

Fifth graders share an artifact from 1990s - the cover of a PTO cookbook from when Dad attended the South!

Welcome back Dawe Artists! I have been very putting together art kits for each one of our Dawe Dragons so that you can do art classes at home. They still won’t be ready for a couple of weeks though. Once I get them done, I will let you know how and when to get your kit!

Thank you TCRWP for another great day of learning! 📖✏️💻 I missed being in NYC for the weekend but so happy they were still able to host their 98th reunion day with so many great workshops online!