We are so excited to be named a 2023 Magnet Schools of America School of Distinction!! Our magnet program provides all students the opportunity to develop their gifts and talents with expanded course offerings! @WCPSS
YA authors Melissa de la Cruz, Ashley Woodfolk, and Jenny Torres Sanchez share their writing advice. Advice that stuck out to me included: “writing means rejection”, “writing means reading”, “produce”, and “beyond persisting, be relentless".
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🧵 There's an art in managing the ebb and flow of a classroom, where you balance between releasing students and pulling them back together. As students seem to struggle with longer periods of focus this year, here are a few that have helped me and become part of my routine.
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6th graders launched our new book, “Good Masters, Sweet Ladies!” today! We are continuing to learn about adversity in the Middle Ages, now through monologues about different characters in a Medieval Village!
My Poetry in Motion class read this one a few weeks back. We loved this poem! Used it to launch a discussion about how poetry can be used to notice things in a different way than we normally see them
When I think how far the onion has traveled
just to enter my stew today, I could kneel and praise
all small forgotten miracles,
crackly paper peeling on the drainboard,
pearly layers in smooth agreement,
—Naomi Shihab Nye
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In our imperfect world
we are meant to repair
and stitch together
what beauty there is, stitch it
with compassion and wire.
—Stuart Kestenbaum
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