Again, this year, I am asking/requiring my students to post to their blogs.
Again, this year, I continue to implement components from Penny Kittle's Write Beside Them. Or am I?
For nearly all assignments, I do the assignment with my students, providing models for them, sometimes, to use word for word or, more often, as a guide on the side. I have, too, have a class blog where I post here. Yet. (Such a powerful little word.) Yet...I seldom blog on my own personal blogs, often using time as my rationale. Truth is that after teaching...still all day during pandemic guidelines...I often want to leave school at school. Anyone get that? Understand that?
Yet...writing here is a catharsis of sorts, one that has often been a healing time for me, a place where my thinking is tapped onto this blank canvas, and, while a work of art does not always develop, a result does occur that remains therapeutic for me.
Additionally, just have to say, hypocrites get on my last nerve...just bless them. Yet...is that not what I am if I do not blog and post my thoughts? Hummm...I see that thinking and tapping bringing thoughts and conviction to life.
Here's hoping that weeks, if not months, go by without my checking in here!
Sidenote: Google removed blogger from student accounts. Ugh. I have yet to read a reason. Thus, I implemented Plan B, which has resulted in a small delay of creating student blogs and in my decision to use Edublogs with my students this year.
