Poem: Metaphor
I wrote this poem years ago to help the students at my school understand the concept of metaphor. The boys at my school all wear plaid neckties. I lost track […]
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Zooming on Zoom!
With the new school year breathing down everyone’s neck, many educators face teaching online using software like Zoom, and they’re not happy about it. Perhaps teachers don’t know how to
Adapting to Online Teaching with 2nd Graders
I work at a public charter school in the Bronx, New York City’s poorest borough. We teach pre-K through 5th Grade, and my primary job is to train and support
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Reader Response: “Grief”
One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2020 is to explore death at an intellectual level by reading what greater and more articulate minds than mine have written on the
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Sun Poem: Death on a Bicycle
Death on a Bicycle If you train on a road bike during the boiling hot summer in Nakajo, Japan,Your most valuable equipment, more than glovesHelmet or spare tire,Is sunglasses. There
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Plenty o’ Sun in Primary School Writing
I work at the two Bronx Charter Schools for Better Learning. I’m called a “Professional Development Specialist,” which means I get to train new teachers and teaching assistants in our
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Korean Sijo Contest Winners’ Field Trip
Every year my school’s Korean language and culture program, which I coordinate, holds a sijo-writing contest for its 2nd and 3rd Grade students. We define sijo (pronounced “she–jo”) as a three-line poem that
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Writing in Kindergarten
This week I was in a kindergarten class at my school, sitting next to a girl who was writing in her journal. Her teacher’s instructions were to write anything she
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Pour Another Cup
As I recently blogged, I’m going to read and respond to books and articles about Parkinson’s disease via a reader response format that we use with students at my school,
Heart, Awakened
Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School is the title of a book written by Georgia Heard, an internationally famous poet and teacher. I studied poetry (and