“Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense of arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.” ― Akiko Busch, Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live When I first started teaching twenty years ago, I found myself in a classroom housed in a portable, separated by a big playground, […]
I have recently been reading Carol Dweck’s Mindset- The New Psychology of Success as professional development. I began reading the book to access the knowledge and strategies I needed to support my students. I had begun to notice that some of my students were really uncomfortable with challenging work that asked a lot of them. Even […]
How is feedback changing for me? How am I changing feedback for my students? With the final session just days away, the action plan completed and the blog still to write, I will end this part of the journey with a reflection on feedback. I think the biggest takeaway for me is […]
As the time ticks away on this action plan blog post, I sit in front of my computer with an idea. Not a plan really just yet. Just a simmering in the back of my mind for a long time, nagging, can’t be ignored for too much longer, slowly percolating idea. But not a real […]