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Three Things

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Last week I was in Asheville for Spring Break, enjoying running the beautiful mountain trails there. I met two women at a bike & outdoor shop bar one evening and we started talking. The women were on a mountain biking vacation from Canada and had left their children and husbands at home. It came up [...]

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Literature Circles Continued

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »

If you saw my post the other day, you’ll remember that I’ve been thinking a lot about literature circles or book clubs lately.  We can teach children to facilitate their own discussion groups.  I especially like to see these happening in grades 3-8, but I’ve also seen them work well in grade 2. You might [...]

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Conferring with students about their reading

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on August 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I read Patrick Allen’s book Conferring:  The Keystone of Reader’s Workshop a while back, but reread it when Cathy Mere started a cyber discussion about it a few weeks ago.  Recently, I was re-skimming the last few chapters and I got inspired to want to work with upper elementary grades again.  Since retiring and moving [...]

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What’s RIGHT with education?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Lately there has been a lot of talk about education in the news. Unfortunately, it seems to be a lot of talk about what’s wrong with education and how we can fix it. We’d like to take a minute to share our list of what’s right with education. What does it look like when things are [...]

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