My Writing Stories that Only I Can Tell

TRUST This word appeared in large white letters on the black t-shirts my 5th grade boys basketball team wore. Their coach taught them t...

June 21, 2015 My husband and I climbed the flight of switchback, metal stairs at 24th and 10th Avenue. At the top, we viewed a crowd walki...

I wrote the words below in BLACK as the 2015 year began, my first New Years Day of choosing a OLW. As I reflect on my ONE LITTLE WORD now, ...

June, 2015 Dear Janney 5 th Grade Writing Friends, As we end our year together, we just want to take a moment to reflect on a ...

I can vividly recall reading Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day to my first class in the fall of 1986, me fresh out of colle...

I say I value mentor authors but the Writing Workshop I ran on Wednesday solidified this belief. It resulted in such strong writing after I ...

Last Friday was my students' 5th grade Memoir Publishing Party. Last Wednesday, I was collecting the students' memoirs, just two...