Conference Update – Community Support Well, what a week. I hardly slept a wink Tuesday night then headed into conferences Wednesday and Thursday for 12 hour shifts each day. Because admin had questioned if the kids were learning anything, we had prepared portfolios of the kids’ work, on November 1-4: 1. Reading Assessment – I […]
Elena Overvold is in her second year of teaching at an urban school in Portland. I think of her as Our Lady of the Lake and if you met her you would know why. I miss all of our nicknames we used to have for each other. Let’s bring them back! Here is her report:
Craig West has written something very wonderful and very beautiful here that makes me feel that I am on the right track in my own pursuit of figuring out the best way to reach kids as a language teacher. I give this comment from Craig a million stars: …I am seeing the language learning process
Mental health is one of the big topics here. We have a category for it. We need to protect our mental health or we won’t be any good to anyone. I have been told that when teachers work with the Invisibles and emergent targets, they are in better mental health, even at such time like
We rarely talk openly and honestly with our students about what is happening in our classes. Perhaps we are too afraid to be met with open rebellion. Perhaps we are still clinging to the centuries old old model of the teacher being the unquestioned expert. Steven Ordiano in Fresno, CA, shreds that image of a
