A final haiku.
Last Day (#sol26 Day 31/31)
My own advice (#sol26 Day 24/31)
I had to have a conference with my writing teacher. 🥴
So what do you do? (#sol26 Day 17/31)
I mean, there’s really only one acceptable choice…
Avoid the poo! (#sol26 Day 1/31)
How will the next month of daily writing turn out? 🤔
What’s that school called? (Day 3/31)
Wait, what?!
A veritable who’s who of stars! (#sol24 Day 21/31)
We got to cast our scene today for the school’s spring musical. This is one of my favorite things to do with my teaching team. We get to read the script for our scene, reread it another two or three times to make sure we can actually picture the thing (because it’s a totally original... Continue Reading →
Cognitive overload (#sol24 Day 19/31)
People (you know, people out there in the big ol' world) talk about cognitive load. Have you heard this recently? The cognitive load conversation being the thoughts and realizations about the amount of usable information we can actually hold in our short-term memory at one time? Well. In my opinion, the intentional cognitive load of... Continue Reading →
Low expectations for the WIN! (#sol24 Day 18/31)
I grew up reading collections of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. You, too? Weren't they just the best? Like this one, for example: This particular strip became more and more pertinent to me as I gradually realized that today was the kind of day that, in order for me to actually make it through, just... Continue Reading →
When our words stick (#sol24 Day 12/31)
The coolest thing happened in my first grade writing class today. Backstory: I have a young writer (we’ll call him James) who has just become an independent letter creator. He now knows them all and how to (mostly) form them correctly. This progression is, as we all know, huge. Despite the massive skill gaps between... Continue Reading →
Writing and Laughing 