Respect for elders is beautiful. The young men of the neighborhood sang a song to the 85-year-old grandmother to show their love for her. She's known them since they were little kids.

school is not a road trip. a teacher is not a parent. this analogy makes no sense

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Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-white public elementary school, was born on September 8, 1954. She’s 70 today.

That’s another thing. I’m struggling to plan a cohesive reading unit using HMH because in one week we have to teach traits, figurative language, theme, & story elements And that’s just the whole class learning objectives. There are others

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Can a curriculum (written for a predominantly Black and brown district) be truly culturally relevant and/or anti-racist if it’s written by all white people? True question.

one old school belief my parents firmly ingrained in me is if you’re going to do something, do it well. it’s not so much about perfectionism or completing the task. it’s about working with pride & integrity. doing things the best way you know how

This is forever the problem with basal readers. I remember the beginning of my teaching career despairing about this: how BORED/unchallenged at least half the class was with our “stories of the week” (Reading Street at the time). So sorry to see the pendulum sway back so heavily

“It’s still inside my pencil” is the best answer I’ve ever had from a first grader who was asked, “Where’s your journal writing?”

It’s been a while since I’ve heard a phrase both so perplexing and impressive as “cascade of coverage” when it comes to staff absences

its me i need this

Ten minutes: How long I lasted using Rigby Readers with my group that had just gotten back from an Orton gillingham intervention We switched to a novel And they lit up Look. Short passages are good. Short passages are needed. But/and so are things that don’t feel like a drudge

well now we know why he was picked

I don’t post classroom rules in my room. My attitude is that my students already know what they’re supposed to do. We focus on routines instead. We find what works for us as a classroom community, and practice.

I posted about classroom routines vs rules and someone just informed me my job is to teach my students. I’m floored. Why didn’t I think of that sooner