Elizabeth Maine
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Moving time!
As a teacher, August is always one of my favorite months. There is so much promise & potential that comes with developing hopes and dreams for a new group of students (without yet having to contend with the mountain of phone calls, paper work, and logistics of the first month...
Who's doing the thinking?
Over the summer, I’ve been doing some literacy work with an educational consulting group here in Boston — we’re taking some of their existing professional development (PD) and classroom tools and modifying them to better address the Common Core. Last week, I went with some other members of the team...
Making connections for middle schoolers
This is my first year at a standalone middle school (having previously worked in a high school and K-8), and it’s definitely been a learning experience! In addition to their struggles with reading, my 6th-8th graders bring a host of emotional & developmental issues to the table, all of which...
Marrying accountability and independent reading
The book nook in Elizabeth's classroomMy middle school remedial reading students come to me with a wide variety of reading profiles, interests and needs. Yet one thing almost all of my students have in common is that they begin the year as students who have spent very little time reading....
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