My Life as a Literacy Educator

Assessment. In my mind, always synonymous with test. Multiple-choice test. Icky, yucky, waste of time test.  But my mind has been changed.  ...

I have spent the past few hours reading from two different books: There is a great deal of crossover between the two, and my mind is rac...

So, to make myself feel better about Tuesday's penny disaster, I had my kids draw the pennies Wednesday. I used it to show that sometim...

Tomorrow I head to my second day of training for the instructional model pilot program that my district is adopting. After one day, howeve...

Today was day one of my Instructional Model Pilot Program training. We are using Classroom Assessment for Student Learning from the Pearson...

My class is up to the last progress report in "Flowers for Algernon." Before we move on to Charlie's downfall, we are stopping...

As part of the Texas Literacy Initiative, my school received two carts of brand new Ipads. The carts had been in my room for a few days, bu...