If You Liked This Book, Then Read This

For today I made a simple graphic highlight a number of 2022 books. These are all books I've read this year that I can't get enough of. For some students, sometimes that familiar book is just the next step to push them towards something fresh.

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How to Upload Videos for Student Access

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: Creating Ownership Through Exploration

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...

Making Rubrics with Students

This summer at my school's Literacy.Next professional development I had the pleasure of sitting down with Angela Stockman and talked with her about rubrics and grades. What we discussed was student's anxiety around rubrics. That rubrics set expectations, but students rarely participate in the process. My conversation was clear: students need to have agency in rubric creation. Compared to an ideal world, my rubric isn't quite as progressive as Angela Stockman. My current rubric for students isn't evolving or growing as we are moving through class (although I would like to get to that level eventually). Instead, I set up the expectations of what a rubric is. I created a set of four stations with four boards labeled Not Yet | Beginning | Developing | Deepening. Each board was assigned a different category: Mechanics, Craft, Originality, etc. Round 1: A Good Enough Start For my first class, I put up the words, spent a brief time explaining each of the four stations...

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