Yesterday afternoon while I skimmed and scanned my inbox, I came across Lena Dunham’s latest piece for The New Yorker—”The Bride in Her Head“—a wonderful essay in which she examines her changing attitude toward marriage, reflecting on her own personal life particularly in the context of the Supreme Court’s… Read More
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My ISTE experience: First the bad news…
I’m currently working on a presentation I’m giving for a digital writing course and reflecting on my experience at the ISTE conference, which I attended last week. It was the first time I’d ever attended an ISTE conference. As with most conferences, I came away… Read More
A Virtual Tour through Thinglink
I first heard about Thinglink from my teacher/writing project friend Jen Ward, and I finally decided to try it out myself this summer. So to practice, I used a picture of my classroom I had taken earlier this year and made it “touchable” (I think… Read More
Multigenre Visual Tools for Writing
Presented at the Summer Invitational Writing Institute at the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project, West Chester University. July 2015.
From the Classroom: If You Build It, They Will Come: The Classroom Library
Three years ago, my first attempt at a classroom library was a collection of titles that I’d read during and after college. Well-loved copies of books like A Farewell to Arms, Pride and Prejudice, and Mrs. Dalloway sat along side more contemporary fiction I read for… Read More
A Year in Our Reading Lives: An Infographic
As the culminating project for their 9th grade year, my students created an infographic to represent their year in reading. They included the 9 books they read as part of the course (our “whole class” novels) and then any additional books they completed as part… Read More
From the Classroom: A Labor of (Book) Love, The Classroom Library
First, let me say that our school library is wonderful. Thanks to the efforts of our talented librarians, our school library is filled with many high-interest, engaging titles. I take my classes to the library regularly to give students the opportunity to hear book talks and to… Read More
From the Classroom: Reflection as Looking Back, Looking Forward
The other day I announced to my ninth graders that we were about to begin our very last book of the school year, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Some students were, no doubt, excited about the arrival of summer. Others expressed surprise at how quickly the… Read More
From the Classroom: One Poem, One School
Every year as April approaches, my colleagues and I gather together to make a decision. What poem will we choose to celebrate National Poetry Month this year? For the last nine years, students at Conestoga High School have marked National Poetry Month with a celebration known as… Read More
Slice of Life 31: Purpose with a capital P
I came across this infographic in one of my social media feeds the other day and immediately saved it. I tried to locate the original source by doing a reverse image Google search, but it looks like the image has been copied/pasted around so much on… Read More
Tricia Ebarvia 
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