Shifting the Grading Mindset Starts With Our Words blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_…

Hey y'all! Want kids to be able to get back to school in the fall? Want to go see movies in a theater again? Visit a library? A bookstore? Go out to eat? WEAR A MASK! If 80% of Americans would just wear a mask, COVID-19 infections would plummet! Who's with me? 😷 #KidlitForMasks

Three Questions Students Ask on the 1st Week of School. How are you planning to address these questions in a classroom or virtually? #edchat #SEL

This is SUCH a good reminder — I’m thinking reading & writing workshop is the way to go for ELA this year. blog.heinemann.com/writing-worksh…

This too! learninginroom213.com/2020/03/how-to…

It’s okay to not feel okay! Give yourself grace. #sel

Teachers, to celebrate the upcoming release of I Survived 20, I am giving away class sets of books and ME. I'll send a class set of books and ZOOM when school starts. RT to enter, I will notify winners Aug. 20.♥️📚

Oh man. Guilty of this sometimes. Makes me want to go back to complete workshop...

weareteachers.com/get-rid-hambur…

What are literacies within the disciplines? The following lists for each of the major content areas, although not comprehensive, "can act as starting points through which communities of teachers can begin to think in terms of disciplinary literacy." bit.ly/2lDwtP8

"Isn’t it incredible that even small changes in teacher talk ('Be ready to show me...' vs. 'Be ready to share...') could transform how students respond to us?" Mike Anderson ASCD #edchat Small Shifts in Teacher Talk Make a Big Difference: bit.ly/3irTyBB

Using choice as an instructional strategy involves more than simply giving students choices — we have to teach students how to choose well. How do we do this? Mike Anderson shares a couple of ideas for you to consider: buff.ly/3f2HcxC #education #edchat

nytimes.com/2021/07/31/opi… I can’t remember who posted this, but this really made me think about Smartphones and middle schoolers. And why I am going to continue to limit their use in my classroom.

So impressed with my Crew’s creative door design. It was a blast to put together and the kids really came together and made it their own.

Let’s go Bengals! 🖤🧡 Our “crew” is rooting you on! #ruleyourschool Cincinnati Bengals Mason Middle School Mason City Schools

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This country’s greatness and true genius lies in its diversity.

“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.” MLK

If you're trying to build reading stamina in your students, you might want to try the "Party" Ladder, which is a strategy from The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo. Here's a short video that explains one way you might use it in your classroom! youtu.be/ItnHY3a5MrA

Check out this told wall #bonnertech18