September 24 Meeting

Wow! We covered a lot of ground in a short period of time...

• Britton's Continuum
• Hayakawa's Abstraction Ladder
• Situational Learning

Thank you sticking with me through all the theory "stuff".

As you reflect this week, please give some thought to how all these theories can help us become better educators.

If you would like to share how you changed your writing after the theories were presented, I'd love to hear about that. Don't forget your students would benefit from hearing your writing too.

What about "Overcoming the Neglected 'R'"? If you use any ideas from this chapter please share how that worked with your kids.

P. S. I really did not mean to cross out GOD!!!

September 10, 2007 Meeting

You all blew me away with the quality work you did on your 9/11 Memorials in just a short amount of time. It was easy for me to do this engagement with adults. The real test for me came today as I went into Ms. Zion's US History and Global Studies classes. I am happy to report that...IT WORKED! The kids became engrossed with information in the magazines, books, and newspapers. Go by her room and take a look at their memorials. The kids did a beautiful job. I hope you don't mind that I used your posters as models.

Take some more time to think about Cambourne's Conditions for Learning and tell me what you are thinking about in terms of ways you are setting up those conditions for your students (for administrators for your teachers).

After reading "Running with the Literacy Stampede," how are you feeling about the amount of writing we ask our students to do? What about the "writing wrongs"? Do they apply to our district/school? Did reading chapter one cause you to think differently?
Is there anything else you'd like to address concerning our reading or discussions in class?

My apologies for the USC registration date change. Thank you all for getting that taken care of two days early. We are all registered, and USC will let us know if there are any problems.