professional development
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Hanging up my Mask and Fins
I came to this “wreck” with a book of myths, too. I thought I knew what literacy, teaching, and media “ought” to look like, which stories get told in classrooms and which stay underwater, unread. Threadbare Beauty became my way of climbing down the ladder anyway—“face down in the ladder and the ladder is always there”—to see…
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TMC7: the Tour de Force that is Heather Daly
I have long followed Heather Daly‘s work and you need to know that most of the time I’m simply gobsmacked by what she is able to accomplish. So it was an absolute thrill to listen to her in our small table talk – a 20 minute, small group protocol — that is a legacy piece…
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Setting Up Communication with Students in Distance Learning
I would like a secure Google Doc/Form way to communicate mark updates with students. I’m wondering if we can use something like DocAppender on a spreadsheet to mail merge a column to users with a specific email address …
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Remote and responsive teaching: Distilling the essence
I have a garden and last summer I had a bumper crop of black currants last summer. There are often times at harvest when I have too much to handle and so I’m learning strategies to save that summer taste for use all winter long. I like to approach any sort of abundance with the…
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Social Media Distancing with students
So as cool as I am, and as much as I am on social media, I don’t want to hotbox with my students in their social media spaces.
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My acceptance speech: Angela Thacker Memorial Award 2020
I’m the type of person who generally doesn’t like surprises. 2019 has been full of them for me.
threadbare beauty 