Tag: secondary

• #TechTuesday: Bring Blogging to Class with EduBlogs

  

  One of my favorite school experiences was when my 8th-grade teacher encouraged us to create our own blogs on Xanga, an early-2000’s service that sadly went the way of Myspace- still around, but no longer relevant. I loved the experience because the creativity and the freedom to post about things that mattered to me were […]

  Katie Burrows

  June 18, 2019

  distance learning, ela, Professional Development, Technology, Virtual Classrooms, Workshop in Secondary, writing

  blogging, edublogs, education, language arts, secondary, teaching writing, techtuesday

• The REAL Truth About Choice Reading

  

  So, I’ve mentioned in previous posts that I am a total workshop junkie, but this school year was actually my first real go at it. Like many teachers when they initially hear about the free choice involved in workshop, I had a boatload of concerns about starting an independent free-choice reading program with my 8th-grade […]

  Katie Burrows

  May 13, 2019

  ela, FPF, reading, Workshop in Secondary

  Article of the Week, Atwell, books, education, ela, Gallagher, high school, independent reading, language arts, middle school, reading, reading workshop, secondary, student choice, teaching, workshop

• How National Novel Writing Month Kickstarted My Teaching

  National Novel Writing Month is, without a doubt, the biggest project I have undertaken in my teaching career thus far. While I have been familiar with NaNoWriMo since my early 20’s, and I knew of the Young Writers Program in passing, I more or less jumped into the unit head-first with only a basic, general […]

  Katie Burrows

  May 7, 2019

  ela, National Novel Writing Month/ NaNoWriMo, Workshop in Secondary

  education, language arts, middle school, nanowrimo, national novel writing month, secondary, teaching writing, workshop, writing, writing workshop