If you don’t subscribe to the weekly Tip of the Week newsletter from the Sisters – Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, you are missing out on something really special. This week’s front page essay was written by Joan and it really struck a chord with me. Teachers in current education practice are often stuck between [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Sisters’
A Common Thread
Posted in The Craft of Teaching, tagged Daily Cafe, David Lee Finkle, Gail Boushey, Joan Moser, Mr. Fits, teaching mandate, The Sisters on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I Am Not A Nudge….. Really
Posted in classroom management, Classroom organization, tagged Charles Appelstein, classroom design, The Sisters on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When you have pretty strong convictions about something, they are not always understood or shared by others. For me, one of my thoughts is that creating an environment of order and welcome is of high importance to my students’ frames of mind. With many of my students coming from existences that are not always orderly, [...]
Whew – 4 down one to go
Posted in classroom management, The Craft of Teaching, tagged Daily Five, Donorschoose.org, read to self, Read to Someone, The Sisters, Word Work, Work on Writing on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We are still laying down the routines and expectation for the Daily Five. Here’s how my morning goes: Get up (usually before the alarm), start coffee, sit down with my laptop, check email (and Facebook, okay I admit I’m addicted) and then watch one of the Sister’s videos on the Daily Cafe website. Most of [...]
Stamina
Posted in classroom management, The Craft of Teaching, tagged Daily Five, stamina, The Sisters on September 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been working – really working – at the conferencing table for the last several session of D5 choice. Up until this point, I have been “fake working” — monitoring students without their knowledge — so as to regroup if and when stamina for an activity is broken. We are nearly pros with Read to [...]
D5 One Day at a Time
Posted in classroom management, The Craft of Teaching, tagged beginning Daily Five, Daily Five, effective effort, Grade 3 Daily Five, modeling student behavior, read to self, The Sisters on September 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We have been in session with our students for 3 days now. At one point yesterday afternoon I came to the realization that these third graders are funny and likeable and want to learn. Being somewhat superstitious I’m a little nervous about saying that out loud so early, but there you go. We started our [...]
Finding my compass – again
Posted in Braindroppings, The Craft of Teaching, tagged CAFE, Daily Five, Debbie Miller, education, Literacy instruction, public education, Teaching Life, The Sisters on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve put it off for nearly as long as I dare. It is time to start getting ready for a new school year. Completing my list for summer has suddenly kicked in to overdrive: there’s still much (re)painting to complete, sorting and throwing to do, cleaning and gardening/landscaping. But suddenly, there is a pressing need [...]
