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 | 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 | Apr 12, 2014 | Literacy
In his book, Deeper Reading, Kelly Gallagher lays out ten reasons that students should read. His ten statements resonated with me, and as I read, I envisioned them as a poster that I could use in my classroom to keep the conversation going about reading. I proposed...
