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Keep Moving
Gravity asked her friend and yoga teacher to share some tips with us about how to keep our bodies moving when we are now teaching from...

Playful Math Practice (at Home)
We play many different roles throughout our day - spouse, parent, employee, friend. Each of our roles are generally defined by our...

What Can Coaches Do During School Closures?
Instructional coaches thrive on supporting colleagues, students, and community members. As schools transition to online learning and home...

Making MY Plan: Self-Care During School Closings
Like many others, my mind has been preoccupied with thoughts of the children in my home, my extended family, students near and far,...

Writing Experiences for at Home Learning
For many parents what we feel confident with is correcting our children's work but that is not the same as teaching and it often turns...
Meaningful Digital Feedback
In this technological era where google docs are the typical medium and our classrooms are full of digital natives, online feedback is not...

Home Learning From Our Little Corner of the World to Yours
As a parent and an educator, one of the hardest things about a dramatic change in our daily living is the lack of structure and...

We Are Here to Help
Seth Godin recently wrote, "Day by day, step by step, the present becomes the future, and we make the best decisions that we can." This...

Experience
Mark Twain's writerly advice, to "write what you know,” certainly holds true for me. Life often fuels my writing, whether I’m creating...

The Gift of Happiness
As our team gathered at the end of 2019 we took time to reflect upon the work we do to support teachers. We realized that while literacy...

We Go...You Go Grammar
We’ve wondered about it, discovered patterns around it, modeled it, taught it, and supported it. Yep… now, it is time to take another...

Infusing Grammar Study Throughout a Unit
Conventions aren’t icing and confetti sprinkles we apply to a piece of writing as a final flourish. Conventions are baked into the cake!...

Teaching Students How To Transfer Conventions Into Their Writing
“You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.” Ah, yes, this proverb is so true when it comes to teaching, hoping,...

All the Co-Teachers, Now Put Your Hands Up: Revving Up for Teaching Together
The economic bubble burst in 2009 and so did my sense of invincibility. By this time, I had been teaching in the primary grades for six...

Exploring the Facets of Quiet & Shared Reflection
Reflection takes courage. Whether you are thinking back to a moment from the past or freeing up your mind to think about what’s ahead,...

The Stars Align: Bringing Reading & Writing Together Through Shared Reading
What is Shared Reading? As literacy instructors, we aim for the reading and writing instruction we provide to fit together in a way that...

Building Students’ Vision So They Can Put the Grammar Pieces Together
Imagine you have been handed a 1,000 piece puzzle… in a plastic bag. There is no helpful picture on the outside of the box to provide...

Developing the Story of WE
Often in the beginning of the year we are tirelessly working on routines and structures that will help students develop independence,...

The Secret to Language Standard Success:
Charting the Path for a Year-Long Journey
People (and even some animals!) have used the stars as a navigation tool since prehistoric times. Likewise, in the modern world of...

MAKERspace-Styled Tinkering with Grammar and Conventions
Language is art. Grammar is meant to be playful and empowering. These are my core beliefs but once upon a time, I believed—and...