5:30-6:10 Check e-mail. Create Google Form survey for Read-A-Thon. Write up and post assignment details for RAFT assignment for world lit students. 6:10-6:40 Get ready. Get text from colleague about senior class meeting this morning. 6:40-7:05 Drive to school, listen to Morning Edition on NPR.… Read More
Monthly archives of “March 2015”
Slice of Life 19: To Opt Out or Not?
At the invitation of a friend, I recently joined the “Opt Out of Standardized Tests in Pennsylvania” group on Facebook. The group, made up of area parents, encourages parents to become informed about the drawbacks of high stakes testing and provides parents with the tools… Read More
Slice of Life 18: Science Fair H-E-Double Hockey Sticks
It’s already 9:13 p.m, and my 2nd grader and I still need to finish putting together his display board for the science fair tomorrow. Unfortunately, I was sidetracked earlier tonight trying to finish up a few video tutorials for class tomorrow. It’s surprisingly difficult to… Read More
From the Classroom: How do we build our students’ readerly lives?
A few years ago, I read Kelly Gallagher’s Readicide, and since then, I’ve had to ask myself some tough questions about how and why I teach literature. This passage, in particular, continues to haunt me: Shouldn’t schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn’t… Read More
Slice of Life 17: Reminding Myself Why I Read
This afternoon as I waited in the carpool line to pick up my sons, I scrolled through my Facebook feed and noticed an NPR post titled, “Raising Kids Who Want to Read.” Given my recent struggles to get my 9-year-old to read, I clicked. I went… Read More
Slice of Life 16: That panicked feeling
This is about the time of year I start to feel a little bit panicked. On the one hand, the recent warmer weather reminds me that spring is just around the corner and that the end of the school is (almost) in sight. Every day… Read More
Slice of Life 15: Fifteen Books for the Ides of March
The Ides of March may be a day that lives in infamy, but I thought I’d use March 15 to list 15 books that I’ve read recently that made me think, feel, wonder, question, and reflect. (Side note: As I started to brainstorm book titles… Read More
Slice of Life 14: At least there are no exploding volcanoes…
Since having children, I’ve had to do a lot of things I thought I’d left behind long ago, things like book reports, paper mache, and dioramas, to name just a few. Then there’s this weekend’s project: the science fair. Oh, the science fair. This might… Read More
Slice of Life 13: English Teacher on a Friday Night
It’s Friday night, and with the weekend here and without a firm bedtime, the boys are still up as I write this (about 9:30 p.m.). Despite his protests, I think my seven-year-old’s on the losing side of his battle with fatigue. I can always tell when… Read More
Slice of Life 12: Another day, another book
We just finished our second full day of our Read-a-Thon, and so far, my combined four classes of 78 students have finished reading 29 books. Not bad at all, especially with five more days to go. Most students have set a goal of finishing at… Read More
Tricia Ebarvia 
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