I’ve taken this organizing thing to a whole new level… I reorganized my classroom without moving a thing! Later today a floor plan of our classroom needs to be given to our school’s Facilities Manager who said, “If you want something changed, then give me the map the way you want it and that’s [...]
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Conferring Notebook Tabs
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Anyone who puts up next year’s bulletin boards before the school year ends will feel at-home when reading this post since that’s what I do since I don’t like waiting to do everything in late August.
Hence, today I also began working on my writing conference notebook. I labeled it [...]
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I’m in with “The Layers” by Stanley Kunitz, who was Georgia Heard’s beloved Poetry Professor at Columbia. (For additional doses of Poetry Friday Poems, point your browser to Semicolon.)
The Layers
by Stanley Kunitz
I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from [...]
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