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Celebrating Full Circle

Celebrate This Week : January 14, 2017. This week I celebrate the past and the present in my “professional development life” Backstory. For more than twenty years, I have provided professional development to schools across the country. The bulk of this PD...
Chameleon Words

Chameleon Words

Chameleons. Fascinating creatures, changing their color based on surroundings. Words are sorta, kinda, a little bit like that, changing their spelling or pronunciation just a bit based on their sentence surroundings. Here is an example. She didn’t have much hope...
Phonogram Pair Up

Phonogram Pair Up

Stand up. Hands up. Pair up with phonograms. Here’s how we do it. Each student is given a mini-phonogram card. Students stand up, put a hand up, and pair up (Kagan) with another student by putting their hands together. The paired students share with each other...