Sharing stories of our challenges, strategies, and successes to encourage, validate and inspire other teachers.
In Janet’s Voice: My special focus has been with middle school students who struggle to engage in reading, experience vocabulary challenges, and what we can learn as teachers from each other and from our students.
In Laura’s Voice: My special focus over the last 10 years has been on teacher induction. Prior to that, I taught middle school Social Studies for 10 years.
Although many of our classroom stories come from middle school moments, the ideas, strategies and successes are applicable to elementary through high school …
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