by upnorthlearning | Apr 19, 2014 | Teaching, Team-Based learning, Thinking
Thursday was a good day! Scratch that – pun intended, as you will see in a moment. Thursday was a great day! Recently, on the PsychTeacher Listserv that I participate in, there was a thread about Team-Based Learning. I was not familiar with this college-level...
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...
by upnorthlearning | Oct 11, 2013 | Literacy, Teaching
Literacy has been on my mind again lately. It should be. I’m an English teacher, after all. What I have really been thinking about, though, is the rapid change in what it means to be literate for the future. Some people wonder whether books will die in an era of...
by upnorthlearning | Oct 4, 2013 | Keeping it real
This week’s post is a little different for me. We did “This I Believe” essays in Junior English classes, so I thought I would share mine. I wrote my essay first and then turned it into a digital story. Here is the video version of this week’s...
by upnorthlearning | Jul 16, 2013 | Teaching
(This was a piece that I wrote during the Chippewa River Writing Project summer institute.) _________________________________________ Molly finished ringing up my order and placed my produce into a bag. “That’ll be $16.34,” she said, and then barely taking a breath,...
