I’ve been blogging at Teacherly Tech today, getting ready for a workshop this weekend. I don’t have much left to say to Writerly Haphazardry, so I’ll just share one of the videos that I posted to the other blog today. Variations of this have been around and around and around, but it still gets attention.

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Participate even if you could orchestrate. Participating in classroom activities means you are experiencing issues and trials along with your students. It means you’re experimenting with them and feeling the joy and pride with them when problems are overcome. Participate, participate, participate. I don’t remember who said this because I’m not the best note-taker when [...]

I hate smarmy tributes to teachers as life changers. You know the ones where people say they would have been out on the streets if not for Mrs. So-and-So. I know that teachers do have that kind of influence sometimes, but most of the job is about conquering the little battles, and I just find [...]