Fall in Love with Five Budget Friendly Classroom Decor Ideas

Share 0 Pin 0 Share 0 Support Instruction and Your Wallet with Budget Friendly DecorAh, fall. The time of year when the air is filled with the perfume

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5 Reasons to Join the National Writing Project This Summer

Why the National Writing Project? Okay, so you’re comfortably settled into your July-tanned skin and are finally starting to feel the stress of the long school year drifting behind you like the water behind

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Time Management Tips for Teachers

Time Management Tips for Teachers Ten Time Management Tips for Teachers Teaching can be a time-consuming career making it a challenge to juggle all the demands of the

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What We Write For

Writing for Discovery Last night, I had the joy of hosting the Northern Virginia stop of the National Writing Project’s, “Write Across America” (WAA) campaign, a nation-wide writing marathon

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Writing Revelations: Why Writing Wednesdays are Good for Everyone

In my school district, November is affectionately known as “No School November.” Between election day, a teacher workday, and three recognized holidays, we end up with only one

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In Defense of Books

Like many educators, I am becoming increasingly disheartened by the growing number of calls from parents and lawmakers around the country to exclude certain books from education. Tennessee

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Writing Wednesdays: Why We Write

Dedicating every Wednesday to creative writing instruction takes commitment. Rearranging the schedule in order to maintain weekly writing when unexpected events chip away at instructional time takes commitment. Taking

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Who Gets to be a Writer?

Do you consider yourself a Writer?  ___ Yes   ___No  Let’s play a game. Grab a scratch piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Go ahead. I’ll wait. 

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Plus One: How a Simple Strategy Can Help Teachers Prevent Burnout

Here, There, and Everywhere: Good Ideas are Easy to Find I recently attended a week-long professional development seminar where participants were introduced to a veritable smorgasbord of instructional

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Summer Reading

The world began reopening just as the schools began to close. In a time when everyone around me was speeding up – rushing to stores, to work, to

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