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Poetry Resources

Pot of Gold Professional Learning

Can’t stop, won’t stop my rainbow theme! Every month (maybe more in The After), I’ll share a bite-size professional learning gold nugget that I’m calling the Pot of Gold. I’ll share it via email with teachers, but I’ll also post on my coaching blog and hard copies with a QR code around the school in high-traffic areas. I’ll choose a topic that I’ve heard some scuttlebutt about at Center, and then I’ll make a one-pager for quick osmosis. My plan is to always follow the same structure: What is it? How can I start? Why should I? These three questions guide most of my minilesson and small group teaching points, so it only makes sense to use it with you, too! Check out all of the golden nuggets below: 

If there’s a topic of interest you’d like me to dig into, just let me know!

Summer Reading Launch Units

I created end-of-year reading units to launch summer reading. The goal of each unit, one for primary grades and the other for intermediate, is to set up students on a path to do their best summer reading and included a summer reading info session for families and personalized follow-up over the summer.

Digitial Bitmoji Library PD

Possibly the most fun PD I’ve ever led! 

Online Book Club Resources

When I first learned we might be starting quaranteaching, I immediately suggested online book clubs. Later, I gathered my favorite online book club resources to my faux Padlet.

Word Wizard

Vocabulary instruction is my new mission in Longmeadow, so I created this example of how to do vocabulary instruction remotely.

“History in the Making” Journals

I first heard about pandemic journals on Twitter, and I knew right away that I wanted as many students as possible to experience them, so I created this PD for my staff.

Reading Marathons

Reading Marathons are a fun way to teach and support stamina.

My first High Quality Teacher Share (HQTS) in Longmeadow was Making Literacy Toolkits. Every session ran like a workshop, where I did a brief minilesson on the kind of tool they could make or shared resource they could lean on, and the rest of the session was their tinker time. Info from every session was shared on this Padlet.