Writing in sketchbook

Sketchnoting is big. Why not encourage students to have their sketchbook for your class? This teacher did. In fact, this teacher is inspiring a growth mindset and curiosity with all he/she is saying about having a sketchbook. Annotation, reflection, research! Look at the subtle cues for learning built into this graphic drawn by the teacher. […]

Note making support sheet page 1

I once took a class at Brown University called “Writing and Knowing.” The premise of it was that you don’t know what you think until you start to write it, and that in the course of writing, you can go deeper than you could if you didn’t write at all.

This is me. Or I like to think it is. I could stare at this amazing collage found at Curtner Art forever. Every time I look at it I examine it closely. Seriously, I just finished turning my computer screen upside down to read it from a different perspective. Call me crazy. Here are the words/phrases […]

A mom on TikTok shared what goes into the Christmas bags that will be from Santa and they are small things like sweets and socks because she doesn't want Santa to take credit for the big gifts.