A great new discovery today: a new English teacher writing from the classroom and his own experience.
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A great new discovery today: a new English teacher writing from the classroom and his own experience.
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Oh I love that, Gary! Thanks so much!
I always wanted to write a book about little things that make a big difference. Best of luck on this, Jennifer. So helpful to teachers!
I just registered for this workshop with @escribescribe.bsky.social. You might want to check it out or share this along to others. cvent.me/aEe32e?sms=7...
Tom Newkirk—always worth your time to read and consider. Thanks to Julian Grisham for this www.juliangirdham.com/blog/thomas-...
Casper’s article of the day!
I have been working on an article about censorship lately and saw this in the NYT. It raises so many interesting questions--which is probably why it appeared in The Ethicist. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/m...
Octavia E. Butler, the late-pioneering Black science fiction novelist who wrote about a wildfire from climate change starting on February 1, 2025, in her novel "Parable of the Sower," is buried in an Altadena cemetery. The cemetery caught fire, the LA Times reports.
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I’ve had coffee with three former students this week: 20, 28, and 32. Such conversations provide a fascinating window on life, generations, and teaching. (I have 25, 30, and 32 year old “kids” but the conversations are always different when they’re your own!)
Best thing I’ll read today about attention, living, and learning: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Interesting new resource(s) re: close reading. John Guillory’s “Close Reading” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and this archive of close reading resources: www.closereadingarchive.org?utm_source=s...
Consider doing what I call a two-way reflection in Teaching Better Day by Day: reflect on the year ending and the think about the year to come. Or you could use these EOY questions from @jamesclear.bsky.social : jamesclear.com/annual-review
Think about this next time someone asks you what you do as a teacher: sketchplanations.com/the-three-br...
Overheard while shopping in Green Apple Books in SF this morning: “OH I thought that was the fiction section but it is the nonfiction section. I WISH more of what is on those displays was fiction!”
Excited to read this new book by Jeff Wilhelm, Michael Smith et al. Such smart guys and grateful for the years of presenting with them at NCTE:
I’ll be working on an article the next few days based on this presentation from NCTE this year titled “Teaching in Troubled Times. Not everything will make sense without my explanation but most of it should be understandable. bit.ly/JBTroubledTi...
I rewatched “The Godfather” last night and was reminded of this activity I adapted from Coppolla’s “Godfather Notebooks” where he talks about how he creates scenes from a book he reads: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g9ahr...
As teachers approach half-time in their school year, now is the time to reflect, review, and renew. My Teaching Better Day by Day offers a many ways to help teachers to this important work. www.corwin.com/books/teachi...
Attention has my full attention these days. From The Atlantic: Many people believe that smartphones have ruined their ability to pay attention to what really matters in life, @kait_tiffany writes. Could a "School of Radical Attention" turn things around? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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As you wrap up the school year, we want to leave you with some writing instruction considerations from @candersonwriting.bsky.social and @mattgloverwriting.bsky.social for the new year.
This story and her experience raise so many important and interesting questions: She graduated without learning to read. Now she’s suing her school.
Check out and be sure to share widely this info about summer NEH institute. I did two NEH summer institutes years ago. They were both transformative experiences. www.futurestoryproject.org/e
