30 years of learning to teach. 🙂 🙏 @edutopia.org

Happy birthday to George Lucas, Edutopia’s founder! 🎉

As Billy Collins says, "poetry is the history of the human heart." None of the poems I wrote early every morning this month is perfect. All are practice, which helps me find my voice every day. #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth

#Truth www.instagram.com/reel/DXKBi7N...

THREAD: It's April! Which means #NationalPoetryMonth. This year is less about volume & more about mining notebooks to write "micro" pieces. I’m prioritizing wellness and discovery over a polished product with short, sustainable daily poems. #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife

Cake pans, board games, cameras, wedding gowns, and now… seeds! Picked up some packets today when I stopped in. Yet another reason why #librariesrock

Latest #bookmail from @penguinschoollib.bsky.social Thank you!!! #mglit #kidlit #readingjoy #titletalk #shelfietalk

#BookLove #ReadingJoy and #writinginspiration from Beth Ferry this week! #kidlit #readtowrite

Replace “elementary” with “secondary” or “all” and the headline is also 100% true 😂

Time is a thief, peeps… This is 20!!!

“Sometimes data does not highlight a lack of learning, but a lack of alignment.” ❤️ www.drgravitygoldberg.com/single-post/...

Some of my favorites from this past month…

I'm so excited to be collaborating with Melissa Bryan to share our story with other literacy educators! See you on 3/10 at Drew University! hashtag#seekingbalance2026 hashtag#njctedrewteach26

There is nothing better at the end of a long day than to come home to #bookmail from @penguinschoollib.bsky.social Love the element of surprise too!!!!

@penguinschoollib.bsky.social Thanks for the #bookmail 💗

Looking forward to reading new titles in 2026, and reflecting on the great reads of 2025! What's on your list to read in the new year? #BookLove #TitleTalk #ShelfieTalk #celchat #nctechat #BuildYourStack @ncte.org

I have a 19 year old who was a first grader in 2012. What amazing young adults might these beautiful babies have grown up to become? 🙏 #NeverForget

Third and final #ThesisoftheWeek for December is inspired by Stuart Kestenbaum's poem "Prayer for the Dead." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeWriting #WritingtoLearn #celchat #nctechat #2ndaryELA #Poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

The second #ThesisoftheWeek for December is based on "Myth of the Vanishing Indian" by Rena Priest. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice #2ndaryELA #celchat #nctechat #poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

In November, I got my Bluetooth headphones replaced. When my last pair broke, I thought I’d just make do with listening directly from my phone when I was doing chores. Welp, I think the data shows that I listen to more books when I have the headphones. 7/9 = audio #ReadingWrap #readingaccess 1/2

December's first #ThesisoftheWeek is inspired by "Kindness" by Anya Silver. Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #2ndaryELA #CELChat #edchat #formativeassessment #writingpractice #poetry #formativewriting #writingtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Last #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by "It Matters," by Laura Foley, which pays homage to Mary Oliver. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #2ndaryELA #WriteBesideThem #PracticeMakesProgress poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

The third #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by Natalie Goldberg's poem "Home." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #2ndaryELA #PoetryasPractice #WritingPractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

No spoilers on the new Pluribus show on AppleTV, but the author signing event is ON POINT 😂

Educators & authors on a Saturday learning together! Thanks to folks who came to sessions on #nonfiction #visualliteracies and #independentreading What a pleasure to join a community who wants to innovate and grow professionally because #kidsdeserveit #nerdcampli #mypersonalpd #edchat #kidlit

#NerdcampLI ❤️

The first #ThesisoftheWeek for November is up on the #PoetryasPractice Blog. This week's poem is "Gate C22" by Ellen Bass. #writingpractice #formativeassessments #writetolearn #writetothink #createtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

TGIF! Just got home to my favorite kind of mail: book mail! Penguin Random House sent me this advance reader copy.

October's final #ThesisoftheWeek is up! This week's poem is "Dust" by Danusha Lameris. #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice docs.google.com/document/d/1...

First time presenting at NJSBA. What a gift it is every day to work with these amazing ladies. And a joy to share our journey with others and build our PLN! #professionallearning #NJEd #edleadership #presenttolearn

How apropos! I've finished reading & writing beside this brilliant book this AM for National Day on Writing! 30 notebook pages on my writing identity, why writing matters now more than ever, and the whats, whys & hows of the process #WhyIWrite #MyPersonalPD #PDBookClub #AmWriting #NCTEChat #CELChat

#ThesisoftheWeek for Week 3 of October is inspired by a beautiful poem by Marjorie Saiser entitled "Crane Migration: Platte River." Find this prompt & others on the Poetry as Practice Blog! (Photo credits: Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy & USGS) poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Tom Newkirk said it ages ago in The Art of Slow Reading. The act of reading is the act of forgetting. We can’t remember it all. We have to decide what to forget… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The latest #ThesisoftheWeek has been posted on my Poetry as Practice blog. This week's stimulus text is "Bread" by Richard Levine. Use and share if you would like! poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Job perk! Our middle school ELA, ESL, and special services teachers got to book shop for high-interest informational nonfiction this week. #BuildYourStack #ShelfieTalk #TitleTalk #BookLove #Nonfiction 📚🤓📖🛋️🛒🎒

Love that the Papermill offered our staff the opportunity to come and see this! Such fun last evening. #lovewhereyoulive

This week's #ThesisoftheWeek is based on the poem "Bending Sound" by Paula Gordon Lepp. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Ya know… just an average day hangin with Jay McTighe #fangirling #understandingbydesign #curriculum #nerdgirl #proudnerd #curriculumnerd

Agree 100%. I'd say more, but I don't want to give away the lie.

Today’s #bookmail #BuildYourStack #MyPersonalPD

Just finished this #versenovel #novelinverse #MGLit #YALit

Rounding the bend into October, & here is the fifth installment of #ThesisoftheWeek based on the poem "Belonging" by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer. And, yes, this is a way of getting more poems into the hands of young people! #poetry #writingpractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

My #library #bookhaul Loved reading these titles over the past days. From these, I’ve requested more titles by these authors & illustrators. Anthologies are great resources to learn about creators! #buildyourstack #kidlit #picturebooksofinstagram #bookstagram #teachergram #titletalk #shelfietalk

#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm. bit.ly/CELVirtual

@joellenmccarthy.bsky.social My #LibraryHaul after attending @theedcollab.bsky.social Fall Gathering yesterday! 💜 #BuildYourStack #BookLove #KidLit

“A writing voice is crafted by where you live your reading life.” Katie Wood Ray ♥️♥️♥️ @theedcollab.bsky.social #thedcollabgathering.

It was 1996 and I was told not to smile before Christmas. But can ya still kinda see me smiling? 😆

It's Week 4 of #ThesisoftheWeek and the poem for thesis practice this week is "Basilico" by Sue Ann Gleason: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Always a favorite activity. The title seems simple…until we start mapping the connotations of each word, unlocking meaning and anticipation. #TheOldManabdndtheSea #APLit

A 9/11 artifact. The window of the front office with messages for NJ teens from their parents who worked in NYC.