• Instruction,  Life,  Process

    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…

  • Classroom Life,  Life,  Process

    Disconnected…

    A year ago, on January 4, 2015, I drafted the post below but never published it. I was struggling and knew that if something didn’t change soon, I’d go over the edge. It was a really, really, tough time for me……  Jan 4, 2015: What do you do when what you do is no longer…