English Teachers Chat

Hi fellow educators, I know we're delving into uncharted territory here with iLearning. After listening to Kristin Ziemke, author of Read the World, talk about the value of face time with our students, I started to really consider how my students are seeing me. Despite my initial reluctance, I decided to record videos for them. I want to find ways to build student/teacher relationships in this tough time. But what I realized quickly was Screencastify (as amazing as it is) uploads at the speed of snail. So with that in mind, I found an alternative way of uploading videos. I hope you find this helpful: If you have any questions, feel free to drop a comment below. Wishing you the best of luck on these new future endeavors. All the best, Daniel Valentin Daniel Valentin teaches American Dream, British Literature and English 9 at Horace Greeley High School. He is currently reading Slay by Brittney Morris and is listening to Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. He w

HyperDocs are here, and the potential for student exploration and engagement seems bountiful. But hold up— Before we delve into the potential, what is a HyperDoc? The short answer is: It's a Google Doc with a variety of links that leads to a number of different tasks. Once students receive this doc, they're free to explore it in any order and any pace of their choosing. But to sum up a HyperDoc as a Google Doc with just a bunch of links would be the equivalent of saying Moby Dick  is a book about a whale. To be so reductive is to miss the point. To see a full HyperDoc Click Here Going Beyond the Workshop Model As an ELA teacher, I'm a workshop model kind of guy. Walk into my class at any given moment, and you know what you will see. The first ten minutes? Reading. The next five to ten minutes? Quick Write. Followed by mini-lessons, workshop time and sharing somewhere in-between. It's routine (and never boring). Often times, I map out my work weeks in advan