Stories are gifts

17 stickers later (including 3 holiday specialty drink stickers), I finally have my own Starbucks 2011 Planner, which doesn't seem as free considering all the drinks I had to consume and pay for! I don't even drink coffee, but that's another story. Thank goodness for the Starbucks gift card I received from one my parents …

Effective Goal Setting for the Workshop Model

This school year, I've been putting more emphasis on the goals that they decide on as readers and writers. In the past I had students come up with goals in the beginning of the year, but we didn't really come back to them until the end of the quarter or the end of the year. …