After An Educator's Journey
Out of the classroom & into the universe
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Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.
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With about 400 books that were previously unleveled now identified by genre and reading level, I was feeling pretty good about the progress in the classroom library. Machine-like, I’ve been able to go through 2 or 3 boxes of books on the white book shelves each morning. Last night, however, as I was checking on…
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The lists of books that need to be leveled has been completed! That would, under normal circumstances be something to celebrate; however, right now things feel pretty overwhelming. The nightly task of typing a book title into, first Scholastic Book Wizard, and then one or more of the other databases is quite tedious. Many of…
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This week – and most likely next – has been spent in the tedious exercise of listing any book in the classroom that will remain in the students’ library. Coming from a lower grade level, I am amazed at the quantity of books that I have for Reading Levels A-J…. too many in fact. So…
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Recording titles and determining genre is a piece of cake next to leveling books, at least that’s what I think. Last week I generated about 10 pages of titles — all of which need to be leveled. As my good friend Mickie pointed out — it is a massive amount of work. My current strategy…
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So, I am getting close(r) to the end of my teaching career — I’m old enough to be looking wistfully as my colleagues begin to retire, but not ready to admit I should be quitting. I was looking around at the disheveled mess in my room – especially the book libraries – and began thinking…
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