The end of a school year, the end of a vacation, the end of a course are always filled with a variety of emotions. We feel happy to wrap up the challenges and sad to leave behind all the successes while we look forward to a time to relax and wind down and enjoy life with family and friends. Then we reflect. After completing the 30 writing workshop yesterday, I hurry to my car with bags of books and other [...]
In a recent conversation with middle school literature teachers about curriculum revision, the conversation moved from content to instructional practice. I suggested that our curriculum needed to include enough flexibility to be used in classrooms that implemented a workshop model. In fact, I went so far as to say that it would be my hope that over the course of the next five years, we would see more teachers move to a workshop model rather than the traditional approach, which [...]