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Day One
By Jen Ward New tenth graders file into my room, unsure of where to sit, trying to find a friendly face in our World Literatures English class. Summer is over. School is back in session. And on our...
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Making it Manageable: Feedback at Every Step
by Tricia Ebarvia Conferring with students can be exhausting. Sometimes a single conference can take 10-15 minutes, and if you have 100+ students, conferring is also incredibly time consuming....
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Energizing for the Long Haul
By Molly Leahy “We’re closed” I announced in rapid-fire snow chain speak. My student teacher’s disbelief and disappointment rang clearly over the phone. “Again? Ok,” she sighed, reminding...
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Teaching Johnny to Search
By Rita Sorrentino Although today’s students are tech-savvy in many ways, they tend to have less-than-stellar searching skills. In an article, “Why Kids Can’t Search,” Clive Thompson makes a...
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Building Community: A Blogiversary
By Janice Ewing On a mid-summer evening in 2013, a small group of PAWLP Fellows sat down with plates of pasta to devour and an idea to develop—a blog that would invite and encourage all PAWLP fellows...
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Tools of the Trade: Quick Response (QR) Codes
By Rita Sorrentino We see them everywhere: magazines and newspaper advertisements, billboards and business cards, cereal boxes, web pages, and even on items of clothing. Do these popular pixilated...
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The Struggle Can Be Wonderful
Here is our truth. Students need our help. We need help. We need each another--everyone in the classroom and everyone in our buildings. And we need the humility to know that our best teaching years may...
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