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 | Jan 16, 2017 | Literacy, Teaching, Writing
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on six different writing projects in my professional life — two blog posts, two chapter proposals with a colleague, and two proposals for presentations for the 2017 NCTE Annual Convention with different collaborators. 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 | Nov 13, 2015 | Digital Literacy, GAFE, Literacy
The apps and extensions that help power our Google Apps for Education paperless classroom This is the third in a five-part series about favorite apps and extensions for Google Chrome and Google Drive. In the first post in this series, I covered some essential tools...
by upnorthlearning | Nov 1, 2015 | Digital Literacy, GAFE, Writing
The apps and extensions that help power our Google Apps for Education paperless classroom This is the second in a five-part series about favorite apps and extensions for Google Chrome and Google Drive. In the first post in this series, I covered some essential tools...
