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Bit by Bit: Creative Elements and Life
It’s been a while since I cobbled words into a blog post. Nine months give or take. Where does the time go? To be sure, I’ve been writing plenty since then – filling writing notebooks before sunrise, building words into my art, and making notes in the margins as I…
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Art, Creative Curiosity, Instruction, Life, Photography, Process, Six Words, Stories from the Art, Writing
She Flew….. {Six Word Wednesday}
What’s your story in six today? 🙂
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Learner or Teacher?
The other day, while reading fellow blogger and author Carrie Rubin’s post about authors, gender, standards, and profanity/violence, I replied with my perspective as a teacher who worked with middle and high school students for many years. As a reading specialist and as a writer myself, I required lots of writing from my students and…
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From Every Book…. Learning the Pleasures of Being Literate {Slice of Life}
I wonder: Who taught you the pleasures of reading and writing? Did you discover them in high school? Earlier? Later? In my high school Intensive Reading/Critical Thinking class, it takes a while to get students to ‘buy into’ reading for pleasure. It’s not uncommon to hear, “You want us to read???” followed by:…
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Of Aqua Net and Apologies…. {Slice of Life}
Recently, while hurrying through our teacher workroom before sunrise, a fellow teacher stopped me. We worked together in Career & Technical Education a few years ago. She was a tech center instructor, while I served as an instructional coach, bringing pedagogy to CTE instructors. Now, we both teach at the local high school. “I owe you an…
