This marks the seventh year for Literacy Journey. Literacy Journey is our county-wide professional development program for middle school English teachers. I'm honored to be one of the facilitators and coaches. Each year we guide a new group of teachers through their journey of being readers and writers alongside their students. If you're a teacher reading this, you know how precious each moment is before the students arrive. This time is spent planning and preparing and making sure we are ready for our kids. Taking any of this time for any kind of training is stressful. We work hard to make sure the time spent with us in Literacy Journey is valuable and worthwhile. Beginning year seven feels good. We've revised this training each year with feedback from teachers and it feels like we are finally in a groove. We welcomed almost fifty middle school teachers to our introduction to Literacy Journey first thing Monday morning. Watching these teachers walk into the classroom...
Documenting My Journey of Creating