Rebecca Parrill

High school English teacher.

In a continual process of reflection and collaboration...How do we get better?

[Tom Newkirk @Tom_Newkirk]

Fluency in writing comes from self-prompting. We write a sentence and it prompts another--and another. Soon we have a perpetual motion machine. Here are a baker's dozen of prompts that swirl in my head as I write:

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

Shared cultural beliefs & expectations underlie teaching, preventing teachers from seeing them as mutable. #TheTeachingGap @navywrestlemom

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

The 'Racial Cleansing' That Drove 1,100 Black Residents Out Of Forsyth County, Ga. : NPR @navywrestlemom https://t.co/4K0rrffAPv

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

@navywrestlemom @LisaEfenter @kforsman96 @RvstHistory Big Man Can't Shoot is pretty great too. I'll tune into Carlos this weekend!

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

"In order to live you must keep daring. Keep diving."
-Kat Grant #Supergirl

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

Are We Teaching Composition All Wrong? - The Chronicle of Higher Education Thought provoking... https://t.co/Hyo797NTHg

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

Is Teaching Grammar Necessary? - Literacy & NCTE. Grammar rules explain language phenomena. https://t.co/gWmxfhNIAc

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

@doctordea thanks for the well wishes! Hope things are going well on your end.

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

As my niece was trying to figure out how long to bake the brownies, I realized a cake box could be considered a writing genre...

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

Modeling, conferring, choice and lots of writing = student success. #IdahoCore. https://t.co/EZPR5ChmU1

[PBS News @NewsHour]

How Clinton and Trump plan to tackle education as president
https://t.co/HNI11Jt1Cd

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Teen lives and futures depend on the Internet. What happens when they can’t afford it? https://t.co/JsV2T55c4T

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

Episode 01 :: Revisionist History Podcast. My head is spinning! No surprise... #BearsRead @navywrestlemom https://t.co/vwlLUekwBS

[Mark Barnes @markbarnes19]

Competition: It’s Only for the Winners https://t.co/D8P7O3sjKu #issues #strategy #grades #ttog

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

Looking for that spark... Speed dating was a hit. #BearsRead #IdahoCore

[Dublin City Schools @DublinSchools]

Thank you @DublinOhio for your partnership and support! #theDublinDifference

[Matt de la Pena @mattdelapena]

“A real reader creates her own canon, for it consists precisely of those books that she has used to create herself.”
― William Deresiewicz

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

I write to think.
#WhyIWrite #BearsRead

[Rebecca Parrill @RParrill05]

@navywrestlemom Somebody should go to this. It looks amazing! https://t.co/iQaNeE5l1Y

[TC Advancing Literacy @TCAdvancingLit]

#TCRWP Check out our first institute of the season:... https://t.co/f959IwkOWi

[edutopia @edutopia]

[interview] Susan Cain on how to approach introverted students: https://t.co/LktHSOiCYp.