One of my favorite “new year” writing activities to do with students was inspired by this tweet from #disrupttexts co-founder Tricia Ebarvia. We read the poems together and then I ask them to quickwrite about five things they would metaphorically
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Three weeks ago, a student experienced a health crisis incident and died on our campus. It happened in our busy central courtyard a few minutes before classes started for the day. I didn’t know him myself, but the teacher next
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This July marked the beginning of my 14th year teaching in Arizona. Born and raised in this state, it’s my 27th start of school in Arizona public schools. After a really hard 2021-2022 school year—staffing shortages, battles over curriculum, the
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