At the beginning of every school year, I’m reminded of how important it is to build collaborative relationships with teachers. As a resource person I believe the most crucial area of my relationship with teachers is becoming a true collaborative partner with classroom teachers – actually teaching together with them in the classroom, building on…
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After nice, long, relaxing summer of traveling, spending quality time with family and friends, and lots of excellent eating (all essential qualities for the perfect summer, in my opinion), I am definitely ready to start another exciting school year! And lucky for me, it’s already shaping up to be totally amazing… I’m so excited to…
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Phew! Time flies when you’re busy! It’s hard to believe we’re on week three of summer holidays already and our first trip back to Germany since we last lived in Munich three years ago is already over. Clearly I’m going to be doing very little writing over the next six weeks or so (not so…
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I just had a fantastic meeting with two of our wonderful grade 5 teachers, Sandra and Diane, to brainstorm ways to naturally embed 21st century literacy skills into our (Lucy Caulkins) Readers’ Workshop (RW) units of study for next school year (Reading is a school focus for next year). The grade 5 team is looking…
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This year I’ve been fortunate to meet many of my edublogger friends in person. It started with Learning 2.0 where I got to meet Jeff Utecht, Clay Burell, Wes Fryer, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson (and I also was fortunate to spend lots of time with Susan Sedro, who I had met the year before…
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