Some of you might remember that this time last year I shared with you all about TeachWriteober. I have been writing off and on for many years with a group called Teach Write, a group of educators who know that to be a better teacher of writing, you need to write yourself. During the month of October, we challenge ourselves to write for 31 days in a row. I plan on taking the challenge again. I know some of you did it with me last year. If you are looking for some motivation and an accountability group to help you write, join us! Check out this page to read more about it. You can sign up here and they will send you more information, add you to the accountability tracker, etc. I love the theme this year: Write to play! The idea is that we are encouraged to spend the month playing with our writing. Wouldn't it be great if we could use that same mantra with our students...help them see that they can play with their writing too?! Even if you don't join me for TeachWriteober, I do hope you will continue to think of yourself as writers. Writing, noticing, practicing, editing, scribbling out, thinking, staring at a blank page, jotting down...these are all things we want our students to be doing this year so we should be experiencing the joys and struggles of writing alongside them this year. We will become better teachers and they will become better writers if we do. (I am excited that the Oct. 6 PD afternoon will be focused on writing. Sorry I can't be with you, but I look forward to hearing all about it when I return.) Now stop reading this and start writing! A friend of mine sent me a special picture book that I definitely hope to share with some of your classes. The book is called Beneath and it is a beautiful book that celebrates that there is always more under the surface that we can't see. I am also reading a book that probably wasn't the best timing on my part since it is about a child who loses a parent. But maybe it will be cathartic for me. The book is called The Probability of Everything. I had a chance to participate in a free webinar with the author through Bookelicious and it was interesting to hear her talk about how she wrote the book. I am also hoping to dive into a book I got at the end of last year called Feeling Seen: Reconnecting in a Disconnected World. It's by Dr. Jody Carrington who I have read before and who was a keynote speaker at the Elevate Your Classroom Conference this summer.
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