Department Chairs – Teaching English Language Arts

Students Starters Enhance Teaching

August 10, 2020November 22, 2020 by admin

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Student Starters in Virtual Setting Now is a good time to plan on releasing more responsibility for learning to your students. The first quarter/semester is when you model reading and writing strategies, making, connections, incorporating a wide variety of examples in your own instruction, and also informing the students that…

Ready for New School Year?

August 3, 2019May 20, 2021 by admin

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New School Year - Are you ready? “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.” (Hale, 1870) For many educators, the beginning of…

Language Arts Resources

September 7, 2018April 28, 2020 by admin

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General Overview of ELA Resources Welcome to my website. Click on any of the lines to sample explanations, assignments, and other resources to enhance teaching and improve learning. GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES General Grading Guidelines for Written Assignments General Grading Guidelines - SLIDES BOOK REPORTS Collage on Common Book or Story…

Cross Curricular Resources

July 11, 2018November 12, 2021 by admin

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Update Your List of Lesson Planning Web Resources So grateful to viewers who share websites that help kept us up to date on resources. Anita Gianakas, library media specialist, invites you to view this resource for helping students understand the value of reading and math to…

Anne Frank Acquaintance Survey

September 14, 2015September 14, 2015 by admin

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How Well Do You Know Anne Frank? Anne Frank Acquaintance Survey Please respond as fully as knowledge, time, and space (can add sheet[s]) allow to these open-ended questions, forwarding same to: Bill Younglove, at wyoungl@aol.com (or 20832 Longworth Avenue, Lakewood, California 90715-1126. You may wish to do a skim read first, in order to…

Thoughts to Share with Students

September 4, 2015September 8, 2015 by admin

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Children's Books Teach Us All We sometimes think children's book are only for children. But there is wisdom to be gleaned for us all. Invite your students to bring in their favorite children's book and share a quotation that has inspired them. Here's a link with a few quotations to get you started. Enjoy…

Maximizing Meetings and Maintaining Morale Handout

August 14, 2015September 11, 2017 by admin

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Department chairs regularly seek for ways to use meeting time more efficiently and to keep up the spirits of their department members. Attached are ideas planned for the "Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Leading New Initiatives with Love, Agency, and Energy"session at the National Council of Teachers of English held…

Presentations for NCTE and CEL 2014

November 9, 2014November 26, 2014 by admin

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NCTE and CEL 2014 were Inspiring! [caption id="" align="alignright" width="150"] from ncte.org/annual[/caption] Thanks for joining me in Washington, DC area , November 19-25 for the 2014 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention at the Gaylord National Harbor in Oxin Hill, MD. Story As the Landscape of Knowing ANDERSON BOOKS had my…

Conference on English Leadership 2014

October 5, 2014September 26, 2014 by admin

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Learning to Lead with Other Leaders I invite you to join me at the 2014 Conference on English Leadership. If you're going and/or presenting, comment here and we'll plan to support you with our attendance. Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center Washington D.C. November 23-25 Keynote Speakers: Jim Burke, Sarah Brown…

On Leadership – May

May 15, 2014May 10, 2014 by admin

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More Effective Meetings Do you have an end of the year meetings to plan and lead? Here are some ideas that confirm some discussed at NCTE 2014 leadership workshops* in Boston. See article How to get the most out of faculty meetings By Naphtali Hoff on May 1st, 2014 Will one of…

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