Madison Ballou

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

This is worth a read: a thought-provoking reminder that education reform isn’t a cure-all. As a supporter of education reform, I agree that fixing educational inequality requires doing more to address the broader, systemic sources of economic inequality. https://t.co/96B7fkBM4u

[Madison Ballou @MadisonBallou]

Who knew watching your eighth graders walk across their middle school graduation stage would be so emotional?

[Madison Ballou @MadisonBallou]

@ncte 8th grade ELA Springfield MA area

[Madison Ballou @MadisonBallou]

@ClassesNSession @ncte @pennykittle @KellyGToGo I teach 8th in Chicopee MA! Would love to connect and have the students see outside of the western mass bubble!

[Madison Ballou @MadisonBallou]

@NicoletheBard Yay. BUT, with teacher discretion to alter the rubric if needed to fit the writing assignment.

[Madison Ballou @MadisonBallou]

@TrinaScaglione @ProfShoff @ncte @ncte_elate What is your driving question/expectations of the research paper? I want to create something they feel really involved with!

[Kasey Short @shortisweet3]

Spending 5 minutes each day enriches my classroom community, allows me to share a love of reading, enhances my language arts instruction, and exposes my students to new authors, genres, and themes. @middleweb @ncte

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

A new Harvard study found NO EFFECT of changes in student growth from schools adopting different curricula.
Educational systems need to STOP adopting ‘the next best thing’ and START committing to help teachers use the curriculum as it was intended to be used. #QualityPD

[LHS Project LIT Club @ProjectLhs]

When your graphics class also loves reading... Amazing ceiling tiles for the library! @ProjectLITComm @LHSEAGLESVA @JasonReynolds83 @angiecthomas #justreadit

[Madison Ballou @MadisonBallou]

I’m not sure what excites me more... the brilliant, inspiring work of @sam_aye_ahm novel Internment, or knowing I’ll get to share this with my students on Monday

[katemessner @KateMessner]

“We do not age out of the benefits of read-aloud. If we did, the audiobook market would not exist.” @donalynbooks at Vermont Reads, reminding us that nothing builds community like a read-aloud.

[Madison Ballou @MadisonBallou]

@NicoletheBard I will be one broke women due to your follower recommendations and all the amazing books that now fill my amazon cart

[Barbara Flanagan PhD @BarbaraUDL4Me]

In honor of #NationalLibraryWeek, a quote from my favorite author. If you’ve never read E. B. White’s pieces for the New Yorker, his essays, his letters, do yourself a favor and read them. @ncte @librarycongress @nypl @NewYorker

[Donalyn Miller @donalynbooks]

“We talk about THE writing process. As if there’s only one. But it doesn’t work that way. The process differs from writer to writer, and from project to project.” @KateMessner