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~Atticus Finch in To Kill a MockingbirdDeb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.comBlogger260125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-59190464288757818752020-01-17T22:47:00.001-05:002020-01-17T22:47:48.012-05:00Day 1 Curiosity Across the Curriculum: Pursuing Engagement, Literacy, and Actions through Inquiry,<div>
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Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-64161985225129512972019-09-15T14:04:00.000-04:002019-09-15T14:10:47.886-04:00The Importance of a Name<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e29; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Today's post is inspired by the student’s whose names who roll beautifully from their lips, yet sit flat and awkward in my mouth. I am motivated by the time I spent in Japan, helping my friends pronounce Deb (such a familiar name here in America). Because one adding the schwa sound at the end turned my name into debu, the Japanese word for fat. </div>
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The ideas I am sharing today are with the intentions of helping us and our students learn:</div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Add a QR code (linked to the recording) to the name chart. Others can scan the QR code to hear the student accurately say their name. Thanks, </span><a class="_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/MissWhite2017" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">@MissWhite2017</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> for this idea</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Use a writing app like Pixie, Draw and Tell, Explain Everything, or Notes and ask students to tell about the meaning behind their names. </span></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Print the students work and assemble into a book for the class to read. Or create a slideshow in Google Slides, KeyNote or iPhoto! </span></li>
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Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-74622226518943352012019-08-25T20:02:00.000-04:002019-08-27T09:28:48.827-04:00Building Communities: Books and Apps to Amplify and Capture Learning<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's the time of year when you have twenty-some new friends to shape and mold into a learning community. And when I say learning community, I mean a group of kids from varying and similar backgrounds who live together inside roughly 400 square feet, six hours a day, five days a week, who all come for the same purpose, and yet with very distinct and different needs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is our privilege (and yes, challenge) to develop a relationship with these children that will allow us to see their likes, their dislikes, their motivations, and their limits. All the while weaving together the needs of all students so the classroom can learn and live together, respectfully, and with purpose. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this post I am sharing a book title that will open windows to your students and bridge connections between students and worlds that are new to them. A title that will help you establish procedures and routines that are essential as we learn to live and learn in one space. And a title that will teach learners to face their limits and be fierce! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am also sharing apps to help you show your students your creativity, and how learning can be amplified and captured through photos and video when we work first with purpose in </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I recommend using this time to model for your students how to use the iPad as a tool for learning. Show students how an iPad can:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Capture experiences</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Share experiences with others</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Help you remember what happened</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Share your voice </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Type, cut, paste, revise</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Save experiences for ever</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Create photos and videos</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And offer many, many other possibilities!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Daniel sets off on a walk through his neighborhood and learns about all the simple things that bring the people of his community joy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I<b> </b>see this book pairing well with a building tour and practicing hallway procedures:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">as students search for what brings their community joy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take along your iPad, snap photos of students demonstrating agreed upon expectations (see above), the staff members you meet, and the things you see that bring joy to your students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Note this is the time for you to model how you can use the iPad as a tool for learning. You're using the iPad in your lesson in front of your students.)</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Print photos and use these for interactive writing. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Send photos to Pixie or Draw and Tell and use them for interactive digital writing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Motivative a child to share or get involved by sending the photo to Chatterpix, and invite a student to voice the the picture! </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Send the photo to Explain Everything and work together to make a screencast or interactive writing about the photo. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Share the photo (or the projects created from the photo as mentioned above) with the building via Flipgrid, Padlet, Kidblog, email, or hang it out in the hall! </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By <a href="https://twitter.com/ogemora" target="_blank">OgeMora</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The smell of Omu's stew wafts down the street and one by one everyone in Omu's neighborhood knocks on her door until the stew is gone. The way this community comes together to take care of Omu will make even the most brazen student pause and say awe... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I see this book pairing well with building promise- taking care of others, thinking "we not me". Taking time to really dig in and discuss what it means to take care of others and think "we not me" will help students take ownership of the school promise. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Keep your iPad handy, snap photos of students demonstrating we not me and taking care of others.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Print photos and use these for interactive writing. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Send photos to Pixie or Draw and Tell and use them for interactive digital writing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Motivative a child to share, or get involved by sending the photo to Chatterpix and invite a student to voice the the picture! </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Send the photo to Explain Everything and work together to make a screencast or interactive writing about the photo. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Share the photo (or the projects created from the photo as mentioned above) with the building via Flipgrid, Padlet, Kidblog, email, or hang it out in the hall! </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I see this book pairing well with goal setting- early in the year is good time to practice goal setting by working together to practice transitioning procedures, responding to quiet signals, lining up quietly, or any other procedures you want to nail down! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Note this the time for you to model how you can use the iPad as a tool for learning. You're using the iPad in your lesson in front of your students.)</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Use chart paper to list student ideas for improvement and adjust goals. Demonstrating to students goals are monitored and adjusted as needed. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Print photos and use these for interactive writing. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Send photos to Pixie or Draw and Tell and use them for interactive digital writing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Motivative a child to share, or get involved by sending the photo to Chatterpix and invite a student to voice the the picture! </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Send the photo to Explain Everything and work together to make a screencast or interactive writing about the photo. </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I see this book pairing well with getting to know students outside of the classroom. Ask students to share family traditions, favorite foods, games they play outside. Kids will love watching Bilal and his friends ride their bikes, jump on the trampoline, and swim! While also taking a peek into Bilal's culture as they step into his house, slip off their shoes and help prepare this delicious dish! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe this time you want to start releasing more responsibility to the students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Set up a screen on your iPad with a choice of 1-3 apps and allow students to choose how they they'd like to share family </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">traditions, favorite foods, and games they play outside.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The responsibilities of an elementary classroom teacher are numerous. Creating a schedule that allows time to teach and time for the students to explore is a continuous loop of imperfect balances. As a classroom teacher I fought to keep the demands and frustrations from consuming me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I am designing schedules, lessons, or making decisions for my classroom or collaborating with a teacher as an ed tech coach I lean on my </span><a href="https://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/24148/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">belief statements</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.These statements keep me grounded in my core beliefs as an educator. I revisit my statements often, and occasionally I make adjustments as I grow in my thinking. This one statement has remained unchanged:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I listen to teachers make decisions about schedules; I hear teachers defend time for reading, math and content. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other teachers listen, nodding their heads in agreement. What I don’t hear anyone standing up for is time to write to become writers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Writers who write over time become writers who write daily and for a variety of purposes. Daily writers come to know writing isn’t easy and best work doesn’t happen every day. Through writing, students gain experience with words, spelling, conventions, generating topics and genres. Students who write daily become writers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just as our students need time to read, explore new topics, and to work as mathematicians they need time and space to do the work of writers. Our students need time and freedom to realize all writing can’t be their best writing. Writers experience bad writing and know subpar days in their writing is part of being a writer and our students need to know this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our schedule provides time for writers to write every day. Writers make these discoveries and learn to settle in with tools, ideas, and the process of writing. Sitting down to write isn’t an on-demand job for many students. Writing requires students to decide on topics, message, words, space, and to calm the doubts that halt their words. Sitting beside all these demands is a student. Students who need time to process, practice and try again tomorrow.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establish and stick to routines</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teach possibilities in minilessons</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Offer writing opportunities in all parts of your day</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look for lost minutes in transitions</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invite support staff to provide services in the classroom</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Post your schedule</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set timers to monitor time</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Signal transition times with music</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask a colleague into your room to look for lost minutes in the schedule</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keep materials organized</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teach students to how to access tools independently</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Welcome To Writing Workshop Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works</u></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Stacey Shubitz and Lynne R. Dorfman</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.colleencruz.com/works.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Unstoppable Writing Teacher</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, M. Colleen Cruz</span></span></div>
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<br />Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-817577831508171782019-03-26T22:19:00.000-04:002019-03-26T22:19:05.581-04:00Shopping Muscles and Professional Shoppers! SOL Day 26<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So day one, what did I do?<br />
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I called my mom for a mom and me shopping day, one of my favorite me things, I am a shopper! I often refer to myself as a professional shopper. I know all the malls, indoor, outdoor, strip centers, and discount stores. Shopping is more than a hobby, my whole family (even my hubby) LOVES to shop! As a matter of fact, our youngest daughter is making a career out shopping, as a market analyst. (Why didn't I know that was a career when I was a college kid?)<br />
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I know the current trends. I know where to find the best prices. I know when new lines are coming in and the "older" line is moving to the clearance rack. I know the target market for various stores and I know where I will find the just right piece to go with the piece from the other store, and I know how brands fit, I have got this shopping thing DOWN!<br />
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I could do it every day and never get tired!<br />
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Well, almost- I know when the stores get ahead of me too.<br />
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There's this time in February when winter clothes are picked over "clearanced to death," and spring clothes start trickling out all colorful, sleeveless, thin, and just too soon for Ohio's gray, cold days! And yet, there I stand, all bundled up in my boots with the fur and my parka feeling disoriented like I just entered the twilight zone.<br />
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How can I peel out of my multilayers of warmth to try on a bathing suit or shorts and reveal my pasty white flesh covered in chill bumps? I can't! I won't! I don't!<br />
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So this is the time I take a shopping break!<br />
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This comes at just the right time too. I am coming off the marathon of shopping seasons, Christmas shopping, all shoppers could use a break! And, on the other hand, it's just before the BEST shopping season of the year, SPRING BREAK SHOPPING!<br />
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So, starting spring break with a mom and me shopping day was a great first day of break! So, this morning when I woke up a deep sore ache in my bicep I knew I was out of shopping shape! I guess it's time to build those shopping muscles back up!<br />
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Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-83526060184864719832019-03-25T23:53:00.000-04:002019-03-26T00:29:41.086-04:00Go Ahead,Slip Your Shoes Off! <div style="text-align: center;">
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About a week ago my family was sitting down eating dinner and someone casually mentioned slipping off their shoes on the plane. The table erupted in heated opinions!</div>
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There were the "KEEP YOUR SHOES ON" people and the "Go ahead and get comfy" people. This was clearly a black and white issue, NO GRAY!<br />
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Perplexed by the polarization of this topic I decided to post this question on social media-<br />
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The comments entertained my family and me for days and out of the 29 comments, only nine were a firm NO!<br />
Many felt it was Ok to slip out of your shoes on a flight as long as:<br />
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And just when I thought this fun Facebook survey had run its course, I received this DM today!<br />
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<b>I literally LAUGHED OUT LOUD</b> at this DM! And what made receiving this even better was who sent it! It was completely out of blue and random, just like she said! She made my day! </div>
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<br />Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-51551917454815255182019-03-21T23:21:00.000-04:002019-03-21T23:33:24.394-04:00I Just Can’t Let It Go- SOLToday was a mixed bag full of highs and lows. I work with incredible people and knowing others are struggling is difficult. Today was a day when I not only saw the struggles of another, but I felt the gut punch she’s learned to live with.<br />
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I pushed it all away and walked into a meeting where other matters where highlighted and tossed about. But still the feeling was low in my gut, fighting to rise again. </div>
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I pushed it further down and walked into a classroom where 26 second graders and and an eager teacher were waiting to compose their FIRST community blog post! We all worked together planning, editing, revising, and finally publishing with GREAT CELEBRATION! </div>
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But still, as the class wrote their message, the gut feelings pushed and shoved, fighting to rise again. I thought of the morning, the look in her eyes, and I wondered how she was doing now? Was she still feeling the pain, the struggle, the helplessness? </div>
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Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-60461594138933658042019-03-20T21:24:00.000-04:002019-03-20T21:24:00.513-04:00A Lesson From My Sick Day SOL Day 20It happened suddenly and all at once Sunday evening. The excitement and busy of the week prior caught up with me and hit me like a ton of bricks. By Monday morning, I was down and out. I emailed the teachers and coaches on my scheduled and pulled the covers back up, and that was that.<br />
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Staying home meant a day of rest and recuperation for me personally, but professionally, it meant missed meetings, classes, and deadlines!<br />
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One deadline was setting up a first grade class of iPads for an upcoming blogging lesson. Typically, before I go into a classroom for a blogging lesson, I go in and log in all the iPads into the blogging website. Doing this enables the kids to sign in one easy step.<br />
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Today, I knew the one easy step method was not going to be. Today I knew we would be leading 25 first graders through the seven steps to sign in!<br />
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I walked in the door and made it over the teacher smiling my biggest and friendliest smile. She greeted me friendly and asked if I was feeling better. I assured her I was and I was excited to work with her class. This was easy, first grade and writing are my favorites!<br />
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I explained the lack of preparedness and my step by step plan to guide her students thoughtfully through the steps needed to get signed into KidBlog. The teacher smiled and said, "It's a good thing you know first grade."<br />
Smiling and anxious, I and gathered the class on the carpet. I looked into their eager faces and asked them to remember a time they got a new toy, a bike, or maybe a time they baked cookies with a grown up. I asked them to think about the work of getting the new toy, bike, or cookies ready to play with or to eat. Everyone agreed it took some work the first time, but this was only the first time. The next time they wanted to play with the toy, ride the bike, or even eat a cookie, it was "easy peasy!"<br />
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With this mindset, we began the seven-step process of setting up and logging into our new KidBlog accounts.<br />
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Guess what? They did it! "Easy peasy. lemon squeeze!" In reality, I wasn't completely surprised, I knew the kids could do it. What did pleasantly surprise me was the teacher! She was so pleased with her class! She saw them listen to, follow, and successfully complete seven steps to sign in and set up their personal KidBlog accounts!<br />
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This was when I realized wasn't doing this prework of setting up and logging in students because I doubt the student's abilities, I was doing this because I was protecting the teacher's perception of her student's abilities. When in reality, I wasn't allowing the teacher to see the real potential of their students.<br />
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Sick day or not, students will now be completing all seven steps, showing their teacher just what they can do!<br />
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It’s no secret that I have missed a few posts over the the last week. This is called the Slice of Life Writing challenge because it is a challenge to write every day. I love a challenge, they push me, they introduce me to parts of myself I didn't know existed, and challenges invigorate me.<br />
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So, when I found myself not pushing myself yto write each day last week I was disappointed and surprised at myself. But, I made a choice, a conscious choice. You see, this week was my daughter’s spring break. In fact, it was her last spring break.<br />
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My daughter will graduate in May and begin her adult career in June. She has attended college 12 hours away from home and now, her career will have her living nine hours away. Time is precious.<br />
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I remember the phone call like it was yesterday, ”Mom, there’s a national fashion conference in New York. I really want to go. I think it would be a great way to network and get my name out there and learn more about the fashion world.”<br />
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My husband and I chatted. He didn’t love the idea of our 22 year-old daughter attending a conference in New York all alone, but we knew she was right, we knew this trip had the possibility of setting her on the path to her first career job. And we were right.<br />
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The days leading up to the conference were stressful. Liv called us daily second guessing her attendance, questioning whether she had signed up properly, and finally flight delays had her wondering if all of this was a sign.<br />
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As it turns out, these events were signs. Signs of how important the conference would turn out to be and the strength of Liv’s character.<br />
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Liv connected with several professionals who have offered advice, further connections, mentors, and job interviews. Not only did one of these connections lead to her first career employment, but another company agreed to connect with her university and allow students to shadow them on their next visit to New York! This connection was particularly helpful for the university, as a former company’s cancellation threatened to cancel the trip!<br />
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<br />Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-19225453645806692692019-03-12T16:45:00.004-04:002019-03-12T16:45:47.384-04:00She's HOME! SOL Day 12<br />
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Well, it's been a crazy weekend of house preparation and plane delays but, she made it home!<br />
This week, our youngest daughter, Olivia is home from college. We are thrilled to have her home even if it is only a week. There is something about the shortness of the visit that makes it special.<br />
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Tim and I made Olivia's favorite dinner, invited the grandparents over, and bought a cake from the Dairy Queen! Last night we sat around the table catching up, sharing stories, and it was grand! Olivia, a college senior who graduates in May shared stories of interviews, behind the scenes office tours, and awards!<br />
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Having family around is truly a gift and when it becomes part of sometimes its even more special. Now, at the end of the school day I am rushing out the door and heading home to embrace the special!<br />
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So I am signing off now to go sit with Olivia and see what else is new in her life that is ever changing and so exciting.<br />
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<br />Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-681693549326270562019-03-10T23:48:00.002-04:002019-03-10T23:49:12.136-04:00BUSY Day! <br />
Oh, no! It's 11:40! I have had a BUSY day!<br />
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Laundry is washed, dried, folded, & put away!<br />
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Pantry cleaned out and stocked!<br />
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Refrigerator cleaned out and stocked!<br />
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Made a new soup recipe for dinner, lasagna soup, it was delicious!<br />
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The weeks calendar updated!<br />
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Emailed teachers I'll work with this week.<br />
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Planned out the week in sketch notes (my new LOVE).<br />
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Vacuumed the cat! Yep, we have pet brush attached to the Dyson and our long hair cat loves it!<br />
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Grocery shopped and Target Runs (2 this weekend, I love Target!)<br />
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Wrote 2 cards of gratitude to deliver this week.<br />
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Paid the bills.<br />
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Booked flights to Atlanta for daughter's May graduation!<br />
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Drafted a post for Thursday and fought with WordPress!<br />
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And, almost missed today's slice!<br />
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Whew, 11:48!<br />
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<br />Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-27096041149037997992019-03-08T16:44:00.002-05:002019-03-08T16:46:49.525-05:00Life Changes Unrealized SOLSC #8 <br />
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Isn't it weird how life changes without us even realizing?<br />
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Events that were so anticipated, events that forever change how we live, and who we are, slowly, gradually, ebb and flow over the days.<br />
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Each day changing one more aspect until everything is new again.<br />
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And we don't even notice; until we see someone else begin this journey of change of ebbing and flowing until everything is again new for them.<br />
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Today, I watched a co-worker and his wife welcome good wishes, gifts, and notes of advice as we all celebrated the upcoming arrival of their first child.<br />
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When the parents to be looked at each other the joy and happiness they felt was heartwarming. There was just something in the look they shared that told others they were already in love with their new family.<br />
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The upcoming days for the family are going to be filled with love, surprises, late nights, snuggles, messes, and so much more.<br />
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Each event changing how they live, who they are, and slowly, gradually, their days will ebb and flow.<br />
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Will they notice?<br />
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I don't think so.<br />
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Not when they're so overwhelmed in so much joy, so much busy, so much love.<br />
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How can they?<br />
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Until they see it all starting again in someone else?<br />
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Changes unrealized.<br />
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I didn't mean for this to be "poemish," it just happened on the reread.<br />
I hope it reads well- it's the first draft, it's a slice.<br />
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<br />Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-41880958458005606432019-03-07T18:15:00.000-05:002019-03-07T18:18:14.728-05:00Sometimes is Part of Special<br />
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This week can’t end soon enough for me, actullay Monday can’t come soon enough for me! It seems weird to be wishing my weekend away and hoping for Monday before Friday has even arrived. But you see, while I know the weekend is going to be relaxing and will give me time to catch up with my husband and run a few errands, Monday holds something FAR greater. Monday’s promise is special because it doesn’t happen every day. As a matter of fact, Monday’s joy carries on through the entire week, and then, on Friday it reaches a new height.<br />
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Monday’s promise holds irony too. You see, Monday’s promise wasn’t always special because sometimes is part of special. Monday wasn’t always special, Monday was routine, Monday was seven days a week, 24 hours a day. People told me to enjoy it. People told me it would go fast. People told me I’d miss it. I heard them, I embraced every minute but, the truth is, somethings are too amazing not miss when they become part of sometimes.<br />
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Monday can’t come soon enough for me. Monday my youngest daughter comes home for Spring break. My oldest daughter joins the party on Friday. For two and a half days we will embrace every glorious minute of the special in sometimes.<br />
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<br />Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-75053476739065518122019-03-05T19:03:00.002-05:002019-03-05T19:03:15.098-05:00Big Syrupy Sunday Breakfast and Kleinfeld Dreams -SOLSC Day 5<br />
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For years, I would make a big syrupy Sunday breakfast for my family. After eating breakfast we would all cozy up in the family room. Tim in the recliner with the Sunday paper, the girls and I on the leather sectional with a fuzzy blanket. All watching "Say Yes to the Dress," even Tim peering over the paper to weigh in on the fit and flare over the princess gown. <br />
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Watching "Say Yes to the Dress" was (and is) a family love for all of us, but for Olivia, the show meant a bit more. Olivia was planning a fashion career and interning or working at Kleinfeld's was on her radar.<br />
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Fast forward four years, Olivia is a college senior, majoring in fashion merchandising. This week she is visiting New York as a part of her course work with her university. Today, her agenda included a tour of Kleinfeld! To say Olivia was excited is an understatement!<br />
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Today, I got a text from, Olivia "Went to Kleinfeld and they were filming!" I am not sure if her career path is still leading her to Kleinfeld but, maybe after a big syrupy Sunday breakfast, we will see her in Kleinfeld after all!<br />
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Here we are, day one of the Slice of Life Writing Challenge! Now, whether you're a new slicer or a returning slicer you know the writing every day for the month of March is a challenge in and of its self. And, then imagine being a co-author of the Two Writing Teachers blog. This lifts the level of the challenge a bit more... but this year I have decided... <b>go big or go home!</b> <br />
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This year I have decided to host a slice of life blogging class after school once a week for the teachers in my district! I have about ten excited, eager, and dedicated teachers committed to writing IN FRONT of their kids for the month of March and then releasing the challenge to their students in April!<br />
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I am so proud of these teachers and so excited for the 250 students who are watching their teachers write as they aspire to become bloggers in April as they take on the classroom challenge!<br />
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So, if you see these new bloggers around the neighborhood, many blogging right from Kidblog, so their students can see all the behind scenes work of being a teacher who writes on a blog as part of a writing community, give them a hardy welcome and encourage them to stick with the hard work of being a teacher who writes because its good for their students!Deb Frazierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148765538558251392noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-85283577471804707842018-12-31T00:01:00.003-05:002019-01-06T12:30:59.049-05:00Cultivate: One Little Word 2019 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So as the guest and glitter of the holidays began to clear and I found myself with some quiet time I decided to open my email. I am a bit of a word collector, and I was eager to see what words had piled up in my "Word of the Day" emails. As I was reading through the words of the day, their definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and roots, I realized it was time to choose my OLW for 2019! </span></div>
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As I grapple with daily choices, I consider what the decision I make will cultivate in my life. As I work professionally with students and colleagues, I will use this OLW to guide what seeds I am spreading for others. It's vital for me to consider how my habits and choices affect those around me. </div>
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My One Little Word (OLW) this year is Cultivate. I will be working to scatter and instill little beginnings for students, the staff, and me that will thrive in individual and personal ways to lift learning for all. </div>
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Sometimes I get overwhelmed in the work I do, and I can only see the trees. I lose sight of the forest. I am hoping my OLW, cultivate will help me be more patient, step back, look at the growth we have all done and watch the sprouting we are all doing. </div>
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Thank you for your inspirations<br />
Ali Edwards, <a href="https://aliedwards.com/2019-one-little-word" target="_blank">About One Little Word</a><br />
Matt Renwick, <i><a href="https://choiceliteracy.com/article/january-4-2019-reset/?print=true" target="_blank">BigFresh,</a></i> January 4, 2019 Reset<br />
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One Little Word<br />
<a href="https://deb-frazier.blogspot.com/search?q=listen" target="_blank">Listen</a>, 2015<br />
<a href="https://twowritingteachers.org/2016/01/03/24148/" target="_blank">Intention</a>, 2016<br />
<a href="https://twowritingteachers.org/2017/01/06/39378/" target="_blank">Bombas</a>, 2017<br />
<a href="https://twowritingteachers.org/2018/01/05/debs-one-little-word-for-2018/" target="_blank">Embrace</a>, 2018<br />
Cultivate, 2019<br />
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Technology in classrooms today is ubiquitous. But with this comes trials and tribulations. Well-intentioned students and teachers can find the tools unpredictable (and we all know how important predictability is when you have a classroom full of students)! All the while knowing digital tools bring opportunities that were once impossible. This is a dilemma I want to help teachers conquer.<br />
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<b>Start Small Make Big Impacts</b><br />
Pick one tool. Use it frequently, become accustomed to its features and glitches. Use it in lesson delivery and encourage students to use it freely in their work too. Take time to reflect with students on how the tool is working (and not working). Decide as a class if it's right for your class.<br />
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Below is a straightforward app that can make big impacts on learning. I have also included a few ideas (and even more are linked) to get you started!<br />
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Good Luck and I'd love for you to share your experiences with me here in the comments or on Twitter <a href="http://knowing%20all%20the%20while/" target="_blank">@Deb_Frazier</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jump ahead seven years, my second year, no longer a classroom teacher, but now an instructional technology coach. I work in two elementary buildings, expanding the opportunity to influence more students through the work I do in collaboration with their teachers. I sat down to reflect and revise my path; important work like this can’t be left to chance.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: orange;">I wondered:</span></span></span><br />
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With these questions, my current role's responsibilities, and a year’s learning at the front of my mind, I reread and revised my belief statements.<br />
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So I changed students to learners to include the coaches, teachers, and students.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next, I added students to those who influence children in the classroom. Students are influential members of the classroom, they are the community.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learning is powerful, not more powerful, but powerful. When teaching is responsive to the learner and effects life inside and outside of the classroom, it’s transformative.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I read the final revision, I had an 'Aha momment." The work I have been doing with students and in my professional development had paved the way to my current role; working as a technology coach and a co-author on the blog, <a href="https://twowritingteachers.org/">Two Writing Teachers</a>. I have been gifted with the opportunity to share what I have learned and experienced with a broader audience. Learning to integrate technology into my classroom presented opportunities I had not imagined possible, it was truly transformative to the students and me, I guess I’d say, to the learners.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Transformation Technology Brought to Our Classroom:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
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<li>The ability to meet learners where they are (through the use of digital tool features) allowed all learners to feel successful and confident in their work. Digital tools have the potential to level the playing field for all learners.</li>
<li>The connections and collaborations made possible with technology-enabled learners to experience the world in more personable and relatable ways.</li>
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I grew up alongside a sister with mental and physical disabilities. My sister didn't walk nor talk. She communicated much like a toddler with a series of sounds. As her family, we came to understand her communication much like a family learns to communicate with a toddler. Growing up in our family we experienced stares and prejudice every day. My sister taught us there is much more behind a person than what we can see with our eyes.<br />
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The lessons I gleaned from my sister do not stand alone. As a young adult, I lived in Okinawa, Japan. Nothing could prepare me for the actuality of standing amidst all the differences at the same time. I gawked at all that surrounded me. I was engulfed in a new culture, and I immediately wanted to learn about the people and their daily lives. I began to meet friends who graciously shared their traditions, their food, and their language. The differences were clear, but as they spoke, I heard, saw and felt the similarities between us. This deeper understanding changed the way I see our world.<br />
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I chose to become an educator so I could help others understand the importance of learning about the person behind the one they see. As a classroom teacher, I embraced technology as our hands into the world and a means to gain a more genuine understanding of others. I knew technology, used intentionally would not only allow students to show others who they are behind their facade but would also teach students about the person behind the one they see.<br />
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It's this drive that led me to my current role, instructional technology coach, and <a href="https://twitter.com/AffinitoLit" target="_blank">@Affinitolit</a> book, <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/stephanieaffinito/publications?authuser=0" target="_blank">Literacy Coaching Transforming Teaching with Digital Tools and Technology</a>. As an instructional technology coach, I work in collaboration with the media specialist, literacy coach, and math coach. Together, we have the privilege and responsibility of supporting teachers and students. We help teachers blend traditional and digital tools into the classroom to meet the needs of the learners.<br />
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As I read <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/stephanieaffinito/blog?authuser=0" target="_blank">Dr. Stepanie Affinito's</a> words, I noticed some thoughts more than others. Each one was circling back to <a href="https://www.smore.com/dfrbb" target="_blank">my <b><i>why</i></b></a>, teaching children how to see the world with an appreciation for the similarities among the differences.<br />
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1. "Articulating our coaching philosophies -- the what, how, and why of the work we do -- is essential in leading the learning of others. (p 4)<br />
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2. "Connections with others gives us power." (p 20)<br />
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3. "What we do each day impacts the kinds of human beings our students will become-- the way we set up our classroom communities, the instructional practices we engage in, and the ways we talk to our students. For teachers to inspire student learning and make the kind of impact that lasts a lifetime, they must be supported through authentic, relevant, and meaningful learning experiences so they can do what they do best: inspire learning in their own classrooms." (p 62)<br />
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4. Yet, the bottom line is that nothing we do will impact students unless teachers choose to apply their new learning in the classroom." (p 99)<br />
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5. "Every journey needs a little inspiration." (p 128)<br />
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The transition from classroom educator, teacher to that of instructional technology coach has required constant reflection and intentional decisions. I found myself on the edge of helping teachers and students see what is possible through collaboration, intention, and purpose.<br />
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With these words at the front of my mind and the wise words from Dr. Stephanie Affinito, I am moving onward to teaching others the importance of learning about similarities hiding among the differences.<br />
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Read <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40CathyMere&src=typd" target="_blank">@CathyMere</a>'s Reflections on her blog, <a href="http://reflectandrefine.blogspot.com/2018/06/transforming-teaching-and-learning-with.html" target="_blank">Reflect and Refine </a><br />
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Getting our students set up with blogging is more than opening up an account on a blogging platform. For years my students blogged. I taught them how to sign in, to type in the box, to change fonts and colors, add pictures, and even how to comment and reply to a comment. <br />
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Did you notice anything missing? I didn't either. Not until I started supporting teachers on their journey of becoming bloggers. Teachers were wondering about the basic navigation I shared above, but the teachers I work with were thinking deeper about blogging as a genre and how to set students up to be authentic bloggers. <br />
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I was relieved to hear teachers thinking beyond the basic navigation of blogging. I knew I had work to do. I gathered the fabulous literacy coaches I work with, Carrie Higgenbotham and Julie Johnson and we set to work talking about blogging. Armed with questions and new ways of thinking about blogging I buckled down to work preparing a PD session, Setting Students Up for Successful Blogging. </div>
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<a href="https://twowritingteachers.org/2018/05/16/make-writing-better-start-with-the-writer/" target="_blank">Make Writing Better. Start with the Writer. </a><br />
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<a href="https://twowritingteachers.org/2018/06/13/3-familiar-steps-to-set-your-students-up-for-success-student-blogging/" target="_blank">Scaffolding Students Blogging: Setting the Student Up for Success</a><br />
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Stretch yourself, learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, build relationships, you'll be a natural. I heard these words of reassurance and encouragement a lot this year as I embraced my new position, technology integration coach.<br />
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These words gave me the strength I needed to persevere as I tackled new challenges each day. In reflection, it's been a year of new relationships, new strategies, new perspectives, and new ideas! All of this learning needs a space. Space where I can return to find my work, to share with others, and where we can all learn together.<br />
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Welcome to that space, my blog, Primary Perspective, my digital portfolio.<br />
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Today, I am sharing the work <a href="https://twitter.com/jreaderwriter?lang=en" target="_blank">Julie Johnson</a>, and I presented at a summer professional development session, <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pMvDnHHuxx4cy0R92W1tMSEPivURW_BQV5dYKvQb430/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Real Flippin' Epic: Digital Reading in our Classrooms</a>. The slideshow below represents the collaborative work of the instructional coaches, (Julie Johnson and <a href="https://twitter.com/BickleyJennifer?lang=en" target="_blank">Jennifer Bickley</a>) the media specialist, (Phyllis Brown) and myself.<br />
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<a href="https://www.getepic.com/" target="_blank">Epic</a> is digital library app commonly used in our district. Epic offers a plethora of books with just a tap! Imagine sitting your student or child in the middle of a pile of unshelved books! The choices are overwhelming, and this is precisely what happens when you hand a reader Epic! We have to teach digital reading, we can't assume our readers know how to read digitally.<br />
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Teachers were at a loss. "How can I make sure my students are engaged in reading? When I look at the students on Epic all I see are students flipping pages!" Hearing the concerns of the teachers I reached for <a href="https://secure.ncte.org/store/digital-reading" target="_blank">Digital Reading: What's Essential in Grades 3-8</a> by Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass. This book was a great resource as I learned to guide and support my first-grade readers in digital reading and I knew it would be an excellent guide for other teachers on their digital reading journey.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1372379768872379712.post-5450321170190255422018-03-31T12:20:00.003-04:002018-03-31T12:20:39.543-04:00What Will I Do Tomorrow? SOLSC Day 31<br />
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What will I do tomorrow?<br />
When I <br />
hear my parents say what we all know they're going to say?<br />
feel the magic of having all of my family at one dinner table?<br />
taste the delicious Easter dinner?<br />
touch the hands of my family as we say grace?<br />
see how much my adult children still enjoy baskets and egg hunts?<br />
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What will I do tomorrow?<br />
When the SOLSC isn't here<br />
to make me pause and reflect on my day?<br />
to catch my words and keep them forever?<br />
to put my words out into the world?<br />
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What will I do tomorrow?<br />
When<br />
we've all stopped writing?<br />
we've all stopped commenting?<br />
and we've all said bye?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12