Into the Strenuous Briefness

tomesawayfromhome:

I’ve added a few ideas, along with suggestions for a dream team of tumblr educator/writers. Did the links in a hurry, sorry if they don’t all work, and I’m sure I left people off, so add away.

1. Writing instruction (I’d be happy to volunteer; hithertokat, mollyrockstar, fortuneandglory, teachingtoday, allisonunsupervised)
2. Common core (ohmuffins, teachingtoday, missescargotpudding, ditchingclass)
3. Advocating for student (and our own) needs without sounding abrasive (GWALP, grayer, mskaaay)
4. PD that works and is well organized (missescargotpudding, iamlittlei)
5. CTA/unions (???)
6. Community building (PPT, lhuddles, thinkbrit, heymissat)
7. On the good side of TFA (we see a lot of the downsides, so it’d be nice to see what’s positive) (polygonal-lasso?, gritinthegap)
8. more about SPED (jbizzle329, misseducation, gritinthegap)
9. ESOL/ELL — monasequeda, allisonunsupervised
10. vertical articulation (elementary, middle, and high school representing, wincherella, coloursinaflower, redheadchickenmama, talesofaneighthgradeteacher)
11. Literature (dietcokeporfavor, me, hithertokat, theimprobablefiction, ditchingclass, fortuneandglory)
12. Tolerance/equity issues (PPT, grayer, polygonal-lasso, GWALP, iamlittlei, hisnamewasbeanni)
13. leadership (roughdrafts1, bethechangeyouwant)
14. mentoring (iamlittlei, bethechangeyouwant, talesofaneigthgradeteacher)
15. elementary school insights (amiteachingyet, PPT)
16. technology in the classroom (gjmueller, kbconnected, revolutionizeed)

I’m so flattered. I actually have a lot of thoughts about PD (shocking, right?) and plan to blog a bit about it before the end of the summer. Tolerance and equity are always hovering around the edges of what I do and are not made explicit often enough. I am not yet officially a mentor myself to anyone, but it’s another topic I have strong thoughts on given how much strong mentoring has shaped me as a teacher. So we’ll see what I get to!

(via tomesaway)