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Thinking Stems...: A Simplistic View...week 7
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Sunday, February 15, 2015. A Simplistic View.week 7. Over the past two weeks I have been committed to my guided reading notes. I wanted to make sure. That I was keeping it simple, but yet recording information that would inform my instruction for the next day. This process was well worth the ride, especially at the mid-year point of the school year. Is my feedback focused on a specific learning target or strategy? Lower rates of depression. Better psych...
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Thinking Stems...: August 2013
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. We were WONDER #1044! My school co-authored a Wonder of the Day on Wonderopolis.org. And it was posted today! We were wonder #1044. Today it appeared as the Wonder of the Day. Please check out the link to see the connections to media, vocabulary, and inquiry. Congratulations to our students! Thank you to Wonderopolis! With a big number 1044 on the back! Thursday, August 1, 2013. Which type of writing to start the year? This s...
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Thinking Stems...: February 2015
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Sunday, February 22, 2015. A Simplistic View (of cold and ice).week 8. Mother Nature played havoc on my plan this week! Subzero temps and 7 inches of snow meant only. Two days of school this week! So I thought about carrying my focus into next week but I think I am going to put my monitoring feedback to students on delay until after next week. Confidence that best practices will prevail. Confidence that the daily successes we share will triumph. BODY: C...
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Thinking Stems...: August 2014
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Saturday, August 30, 2014. Professional Learning Communities.Understanding Perspective. I am so excited this year for our Professional Learning Community time each week. We finally have a schedule that screams.COLLABORATION! Everyday each grade level team has an uninterrupted common time for 50 minutes AND the best part.wait for it.it is not during lunch! AND did you hear me say.EVERYDAY! What did I miss? After gaining perspective and for some.blowi...
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Thinking Stems...: A Simplistic View...week 6
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Sunday, February 8, 2015. A Simplistic View.week 6. Last week my focus was.Commit. And the conversation begins! Below are my notes from one conversation. I monitor if their thinking is within, beyond, or about the text. This helps me celebrate and "see" (instead of just hearing) where their level of thinking lies in the story. If a student is staying literal with their thinking.why? Does the student ever talk "about" the text? View my complete profile.
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Thinking Stems...: December 2012
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Saturday, December 29, 2012. My Last One Little Word Reflection of 2012. 2012 It was a year full of wondering, learning, reflecting, changing, hurting, adjusting, and listening. Below were my three goals for this year.the purple writing is the "now" feeling! 1 Listen to my heart-. 2 Listen to conversations-. 3 Listen to reading-. From January-June.this was my obsession.making sure that the thinking and listening that was done while reading had a...There...
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Thinking Stems...: March 2015
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Simplistic View.week 9. Last week our district began administering the PARCC assessments for the first time. I had committed to confidence:. Confidence that best practices will prevail. Confidence that as teachers we have done the work necessary to prepare our students for any task put before them. Confidence that the daily successes we share will triumph. MIND: Teaching focus and personal focus collide! Commit to the moment.
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Thinking Stems...: May 2013
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Saturday, May 11, 2013. End of the year reading conferences. How many more Monday mornings do you have left before summer begins? My answer is four! I always count Monday mornings instead of how many days are left in school. I feel that as soon as the week starts.off we go and the days become a blur! ButMonday mornings are when we "think" we have a plan in place but then our students take us down many different roads! Where can you make time to read?
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Thinking Stems...: November 2012
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Guess who is coming to town. I just got the final word last week that Wonderopolis is coming to our school for an author visit! We are so grateful to Wonderopolis for supporting us with an idea that was new for them and new for us.merging the writers in the digital media world with their real-world audience.21st Century Learning! Can't wait to spread the wonder! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget.
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Thinking Stems...: A Simplistic View (of cold and ice)...week 8
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Real words from reading, wondering, and reflecting. Sunday, February 22, 2015. A Simplistic View (of cold and ice).week 8. Mother Nature played havoc on my plan this week! Subzero temps and 7 inches of snow meant only. Two days of school this week! So I thought about carrying my focus into next week but I think I am going to put my monitoring feedback to students on delay until after next week. Confidence that best practices will prevail. Confidence that the daily successes we share will triumph. BODY: C...
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