She/Her. An avid reader, learner, sci-fi junkie, kidlit lover, soapmaker, NCTE Pubs Developer and Literacy & NCTE editor. All opinions expressed are my own.
The updated @RWTnow website is now available. It features a fresh new design, is mobile-responsive, & includes a new section called "Collections" which features curated lesson plans, teaching materials, & professional learning resources. Check it out: https://t.co/vDWfY2nQyp.
If you get @ncte Council Chronicle, check out the latest issue (March 2021). My mentor & friend, Dr. Tonya Perry, is featured. @tperry5280
“One of the things I’ve learned along the way is that we must provide mentorship so that we can pass along things that we’ve learned.”
Yep, here’s a fine essay by @langoncourse that captures a bit of the spirit of our upcoming webinar with @chrisrshockley on poetry, media literacy, and pedagogy #ncte#elachat#digiURI https://t.co/T8Pe7YAjUJ
Making sure kids can read, decode, understand syntax and compound words is necessary. Yup. AND you know what else is necessary? That they come to a school that doesn't vilify them, where they are affirmed, and one where their T knows how to teach them. Both. BOTH!!!!!
Tomorrow is the first session of my January/February mindfulness webinar for the National Council of Teachers of English. The topic is timely (I used myself as a guinea pig): mindful writing to deal with turbulence from external events.
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This week, as students continue to process, we hope you’ll continue to make space in your classes for discussing what happened—and what students need. Our advisory board of educators provided these recommendations.
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Academy of American Poets's new Inaugural Poem Project and Contest for Students (18 years old or under)! Students are invited to study past Inaugural poems and try their hand at writing their own. The contest runs from Nov 30 to Dec 30.
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"Use Native writers who are writing today: They are creating wonderful books. Publishers watch what you do. You as teachers have to be conscious that what you do in your classrooms directly affects Native writers." @debreese#NCTE20
This conference is kicking off as an electrifying stage of truths to impact education. Question: How can we co-construct places of liberating literacy? #NCTE20
Today is National Day on Writing. I write to create worlds I want to live in while addressing the truth of our own. Why do you write? #WhyIWrite#writing#ttrpg