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Heart/Mind Questions Are A Personalized Learning Option

Martin Luther King

  Heart/Mind questions are a personalized learning option that honors the student’s process of learning at the moment teaching is occurring. To rob our students of this chance of self-discovery or reflection is to take away the power of the Read More …

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Honoring “The Why” in Unit Design and Instruction

Over the past few years of teaching English to high school juniors, I have become increasingly aware of the competitive nature of our students’ post-secondary opportunities. With so many students planning to be engineers, architects, accountants and the like, I have Read More …

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Wading into the Water of Personalized Learning

AP language

Writing this on the second day of school, I don’t mind sharing that I am happily exhausted! This feeling is the result of my own passion for teaching and the collaborative energy happening inside my classroom. To those of you Read More …

AP Language, English curriculum1 Comment

Fostering Student Ownership by Changing the Delivery of Feedback

Since September, I have been hiding a shameful secret from the other teachers in my department: I have not read a student’s essay all year. Ok – so that might be a slight exaggeration. I have read parts of students’ Read More …

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Reverse Reading Conferences

This post follows somewhat on the heels of my Going in Cold post. I identified in that post that as a teacher with much experience with some texts, I want my students to immediately glean from the text all that Read More …

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Turning Sparknotes and Shmoop into Allies in the Educational Process

Students are going to great lengths to avoid reading literature. Rather than read classic texts, they will spend hours reading using Sparknotes, Shmoop, Gradesaver, and other internet sites that offer students a shortcut to understanding. For a long time, I Read More …

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How to Empower Students in an English Language Arts Classroom

English Language Arts

Most of what I do for a living is re-imagining curriculum, assessment and instructional designs with educators. Last week, I was working with Grade 9 and 10 English teachers in a public school district in Connecticut. We continued our discussion Read More …

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