Today is the first summer day post Edustat conference. I have time to sit, reflect, drink my coffee, poke around at comments on SchoolNet, look back at #edustat on twitter, etc. Or... I can just think. I think I will take a refective pause and hopefully I can summerize my thoughts later this week or weekend. It is too soon.
Mid afternoon I will travel to a friend's house to watch the educational video, Intermediate Cafe in the Classroom: Helping Readers Thrive in Grades 3-6. This is the video that goes with the book, The Daily Five. I read this book about 4 summers ago and hope to re-read parts of it again, as I believe that many teachers will be faced with the challenge of teaching ALL of their children to read without any outside support this year. (the loss of lit specialist, resource folks, etc. will bring this model of differentiating and meeting the needs of all students in the forefront, again!) I look forward to collegial collaboration this afternoon. Learning with dear friends. Another cool thing is that one of my former students (and daughter of dear friend and former classroom collaborating teacher) will be with us. How cool, to be back with a former student in another capacity many years later. Very cool indeed. I look forward to learning today. Indeed, I love social learning.
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