Goal 1: Rededicate to the blog–done, with 16 posts since school got out for summer. Now I just have to keep up the momentum and continue by writing reflections on how the other work I’ve done over summer has changed my teaching.Goal 4: Getting some new kidlit read turned out to be my most enjoyable goal, and I exceeded my minimum of 10 titles handily. The last year or two, I’d kind of gotten away from staying kidlit sharp, and I was feeling it this year as I occasionally struggled with helping match students to the books that would move them along as readers. Now I feel like I’m back in the game and ready!
Goal 5: Completing a Reading/Writing Matrix is something I made progress on, but really have come to view as a dead end unless I can lure colleagues in my district into contributing. Still, it was a useful lesson in what not to do to catalyze collaboration. I’ll write more on this later.
Goal 6: The social studies wiki is bumping along nicely, but I now see it as a project over this entire year, not just the summer. I’m still playing with the purposes of different parts of the wiki and hope to get some input from colleagues in my district later this month.
Vacation, for all intents and purposes, is over. I’m unwrapping my classroom, moving into a round of PD opportunities through the Red Cedar Writing Project and my school district, and hoping for the best as my district works to replace my 5th grade teaching partner (congrats to Tricia on the engagement and the move to Indiana).
