After the excitement of unveiling our winners, we set to work planning the library makeovers. With Passionate Readers by Pernille…
3:15 in the school cafeteria A circle of mats face one another. Students, ages 8, 9 and 10, anxiously await…
Saturday morning at the yoga studio Planning for kids yoga series Children’s books teacher manuals our notes Take over…
In addition to offering support and helping to motivate me to write, my writing tribe offers me writing ideas. Today…
Last weekend, as I drove home from NYC, I listened to Oprah’s Super Soul Conversation with social worker, researcher, and…
My favorite part of being a Literacy Coach is that I get to work side by side teachers in their…
“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes up happy.”- Brother David Steindl-Rast, cited in The…
On National Writing day, Paula Bourque (the wonderful Litcoach Lady) asked that we tweet why we write. Her request led…
Yesterday my colleague Mary stopped by my office and asked me to look over her daughter Isabel’s writing. I could…