by upnorthlearning | Aug 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last year I finished my 25th year as a teacher — all 25 in the same high school. It feels like a landmark and brings with it no small amount of reflection over what I have learned as a career educator. In my early years of teaching, I was not very savvy about the...
by upnorthlearning | Oct 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
My Chippewa River Writing Project colleague, Sharon Murchie, and I are presenting this weekend in the 4T Virtual Conference on Digital Writing (#4TDW). We wrote this piece together as a preview of our session and a brief explanation of our journey toward more...
by upnorthlearning | May 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Reposted from the Three Teachers Talk blog. My Writing Project colleague, Sharon Murchie, wrote about taking a risk in sharing her writing with her students on the CRWP Teachers as Writers Blog. Her post got me thinking about how I do the same in my own classroom. I...
by upnorthlearning | May 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
You know that feeling when you keep hearing the same message from every corner of the universe? That’s been my experience lately, and the message has been about reading. I knew some reflection would be in order – as it always is at the end of a school year...
by upnorthlearning | Mar 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Finally! This is School in a Small Town World! And the views here are my own. Though I have had many websites over the years, I am now joining the blogosphere. I’ve always used writing as a means of figuring things out: in my teaching, in my life, and in my...
