Anna Matava has said; …Star of the Week has been my entire curriculum for a group of 7 upper-level students since mid-March. I’ve never seen anything quite like it for building esprit de corps and

So I am just following up on that class. Two kids left making me promise that their characters will be in the story next class. We got into a chant. I was doing the Star

So my sixth graders just came in for an hour and a half of fun. Of course, we’ll burn ten minutes at least with SSR. The greatest language gains will happen now during these awesome

I wrote this to John and the few others who might be experiencing May stress: John I have found solace these last pew weeks in Star of the Week. No planning. I don’t even sit a

I can’t believe we’ve done this to ourselves. I can’t believe we have taken such a simple thing as telling a story and turned it into a military exercise. We have made it so complicated!

Amanda Baumann is our elementary French instructor here at the American Embassy School and very much aware of group dynamics in a classroom. She is the one who told me about David Kohl’s work The

This rubrics/assessment thread is like trying to stop a freight train but I do feel honestly that we need a break from it as discussed here yesterday. Let me share what I am comprehending so

I just picked up a nice little detail about reading stories. As you prepare the reading from the story, make deliberate mistakes, three or four per paragraph. Tell the kids, “There are three mistakes in

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