Posts under ‘Anna’

We finished Day 2 of testing today.  Day 2 was much better than Day 1 when my well prepared students seemed like they’d been sucker-punched, even though we’d spent the whole year covering the material (antonyms, synonyms, word usage, phonics, syllabification, reading comprehension, etc.).  And we’d spent the whole year doing a bit of test [...]

Mean girls and drama queens make the movies (and blogs), but this is a post about shy girls.  Schools, colleges, I suppose even work places, are full of them.  They quietly do their work and silently get the job done.  They don’t make waves, they don’t raise their voices, and often they don’t raise their [...]