Creating a culture of literacy. How does one do this? Maybe the better question to ask is, Why create a culture of literacy? Read & Succeed is a phrase my husband and I say frequently….
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Planning Your Read Alouds
Another school year has started. Whether your school is masking (or not), in person (or not), or delayed for weather (or not), you are planning lessons. My hope is you are also planning your Read…
What makes a Community?
A few weeks ago on the first day of vacation and what was I doing? Writing a blog piece. I have said, when asked, why I don’t write a weekly blog (or even monthly sometimes)…I…
Show What YOU Know
That is the theme of our achievement testing week. And before I go any further… yes… my two current client schools are having the students do an achievement test. Both are private schools that have…
Catching UP
Catching Up. That phrase has been on my mind. By the number of posts and articles, also on a lot of other people’s minds too. I am not going to try to hypothesize what that…
Screen Time Parenting
Last year, before Covid, I gave an in-person parent workshop on Social Media. I was happy to discuss the more popular social media sites and parental controls. The workshop was well-attended. I think it is…
Positive>Negative Communications
So after a little hiatus from writing this blog, I am back. I had decided a while ago that if nothing was occupying my thoughts then I was not going to write just to write. …
Book Shopping
Just a few days ago was Black Friday. Now as it was Black Friday 2020, it was a different Black Friday. But what was the same was the enormous number of texts and emails that…
Changing Perspective
So I have written about perspective before, https://edtechease.com2020/02/02/perspective/. In that blog piece I touched on how I use perspective in school. But I have been thinking more about perspective the last few weeks. It came…
Practice, Practice, Practice Revisited
So it happened again! Sent home scores for the first progress monitoring assessments and parents are calling, texting and stopping at carpool to ask how to improve their child’s reading scores. First, the true question…