I'm puttering around this post trying to figure out how to describe what became, this Spring, a phenomenon in my classroom. It's...

From a student journal today.  We've been writing 15 minutes a day all year .   This makes my heart smile. Late start. Barely m...

Hmmm... not so bad, eh?

I posted yesterday about my students and their journal writing.  I asked permission to share some of the entries.  I'll show a series f...

In an attempt to reach my goal of twenty posts by next Friday, I have resorted to sifting through my unpublished drafts.  Here's one fro...