Quote from substack post: Middle school is about more than learning content. It’s about finding out who you are and who you want to be. It’s about making mistakes and learning from them. It’s about leaving behind ways of being that no longer work for you while finding new ways of being that will make you stronger and better. It can be true for teachers too if we let it. Christine Esposito Apologize as loudly as the mistakes you make msespo.substack.com

In keeping with my goal of writing more this year and celebrating the good things that are happening, I wrote a new post. I'm hoping to make this weekly.

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 20

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 19

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 18

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 17

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 16

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 15

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 14

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 13

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 12

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 11

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 10

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 8

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 7

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 6

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 5

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 4

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 3

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 2

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky

Day 1

What Can I Take Off Your Plate? A Structural—and Sustainable—Approach to Countering Teacher Burnout Teacher burnout demands systemic solutions, not "self-care." Learn what leaders can do to actively reduce frustration and provide real, sustaining support for all staff. With teachers across the board

I haven't read this yet, but I'm intrigued:

What Can I Take Off Your Plate? A Structural—and Sustainable—Approach to Countering Teacher Burnout ascd.org/books/what-c... #EduSky

Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81 (Gift Article) As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

What a loss for the world. She gave of herself her whole life long.
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Potential Plot and Plot Profile: Two organizers helping my students with challenging fiction An educational blog about edtech and literacy by a high school English teacher who is an author and a Google For Education Certified Innovator.

🔍 Struggling to help students grasp plot elements? My "Potential Plot" activity turns literary analysis into an engaging challenge. From exposition to resolution, watch students decode stories like literary detectives! Includes free Google Drawings template. 📝 #EduSky

Lyric Lesson: “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.“ —the Beatles, The End, Abbey Road, Apple, 1969

Multicolor background. Text reads more options we give for universal design for learning viewer accommodations. We need for individual students later.

The more options we give as universal design for learning, the fewer accommodations we need for individual students later. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #ATchat #UDL #InclusiveEd

Great seeing you here, Karin! A few years ago you made such an impact on my staff’s understanding of rigor.

In 12 sessions, my grades 2-5 gifted pullout students have completed Brainometry challenges, Lines and Spots exercises, Table Talk with fiction, Reciprocal Teaching with nonfiction, a Problem/Solution Invention, two Socratic Circles, and Headbanz with vocab taken from the sessions. #producers #proud

Highly specific and timely feedback with options for personalization—fabulous!