Even time to sneak in a quick kickball game at #CMSOutdoorEd

Thursday Night Live #CMSOutdoored

So many great memories were made these past few days! We are heading back to CMS!

Some sea glass as a keepsake for our #CMSOutdoored experience. Thanks to Beulah Beach, our 6th graders, parents, and CLSD for making it a special time!

As someone who taught reading intervention at middle school in a school that focused on a phonics-centric Science of Reading approach, here are a few concerns I see with this new trend and how it might be applied to older students: 1. I worry that we will focus so much on skill

Another installment to My Aspen Grove blog. This one's about my lovely sister. educationandfaith.com/get-to-know-bl…

“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”

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A new addition to my blog - My Aspen Grove. This one's about the sibling who made me a middle child. educationandfaith.com/get-to-know-bl…

Bookstores are incredible. You’re surrounded by hundreds of things that started as a small spark in someone else’s mind that they then spent thousands of hours translating to the written word. Impossible not to feel inspired.

I’d like to talk to whoever decided the school day should be nearly as long as an adult workday, with a lunch break, no other breaks, and then send home with more work. It’s almost as if we’re training kids to be good little workers, with no boundaries. 😐 It’s not healthy.

My students AFTER I provide CLEAR, PRECISE directions...😜😔

US teachers on average spend 28 hours of their work week in face-to-face instruction. Finland? 21 hours. Japan? 18 hours. Who could have guessed that giving teachers more time time to plan, assess, give feedback, engage in professional learning, etc. would improve outcomes?

Thank you, Ryan Hershey, Literacy Specialist and Columbia Class of 2000, for speaking to our classes for Real Life Wednesday! #RLW #OnceARaider Mrs. Case

Libraries, man

This. Don’t think the new box is going to be all you need. (I’m saying this not to Ts but rather those behind the box-buying).

Excellent leadership from HS team in Des Moines, Iowa. Thank you Jonathan Haidt for bringing these issues to the fore.

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