National March into Literacy Month
I recently received an email stating that March is designated as ‘National March into Literacy Month’ and included a great infographic that I wanted to share with everyone. The purpose of this initiative is to, The month of March is considered National “March into Literacy” Month, and was created to promote reading among children. Literacy [...]
Why I Write – National Day on Writing – October 20, 2011
This coming Thursday, October 20, 2011 is National Day on Writing. The National Writing Project is encouraging everyone to participate in a variety of activities to support National Day on Writing. The urge to write can be a mysterious calling. There are so many different ways to understand not only the why of writing, but [...]
Great Ideas to Share and Publish Student Work
I wrote the blog post below for the Texas Discovery Educator Network (DEN) blog and decided to add additional resources for posting, publishing and printing student work. I didn’t mention another avenue for students to publish their work or creative writings is to post to a word cloud resource. With word clouds, you can’t necessarily [...]
Texas Testing Costs How Much?
State standardized testing is fast approaching Texas public schools. Most of the students that take the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests do so from April 26th-28th. Although there are additional testing dates throughout the school year for students taking TAKS, the last week in April is essentially the culminating week that for [...]
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