#TCRWP Reading Institute 2020

I miss:

• the participants
• the staff developers
• Riverside Church
• Horace Mann
• the up close and personal feel of the FRONT row of the auditorium
• the subway
• being asked for directions on the subway
• living out of “carry on”
• coffee meet ups
• packing my lunch
• dining out on the NYC cuisine
• the bookstores
• the impossible and usually untimely return trip home (AKA stranded in NYC on the 4th of July)
• the conversations as we walk past our location, to the wrong Starbucks, or just wandering
• meeting up with #TWT friends
• meeting up with #Voxer cousins
• squeezing in a #G2Great chat (and what time zone am I really in?)
• meeting up with #CuriosityCrew
• and leaving the world behind for that short interlude . . . no TV, few phone calls, few emails.

Thanks to the pandemic, it’s truly a Brave, New World.

Conversation and chatter seems non-stop . . . even if it is typed into a box! Or in a break out room!

It’s Wednesday night. Past the mid-point. My brain is full.  It’s leaking. Time to let something out!

My choice session today was all that I envisioned. (Envision- my #OLW)

And then some.

Grand slam?

Winning game of the World Series?

Kentucky Derby winner?

Gold Medal at the Olympics?

30 minutes of pure bliss.

Head nodding,

Amen-shouting,

Fist-pumping,

Zoom waving,

YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!  YES!

Title:  The Six Most Important  Things You Can Do with Your Students Who are Reading Below Grade Level Benchmarks

Find some paper or point to your fingers.

What are your 6 Most Important Things?

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6

You don’t have to fuss over the order.  Look at them.  Are those the six most important things you believe in?

Are you sure? 

Are you really sure?

I had a difficult time choosing this session. There were three choice sessions that I needed to attend according to the titles.  This session was not #1. However, I made a guesstimate on the “Six Most Important Things” and I wanted to know if I was right. So I chose this session.

Here were my six:

Know your students / Relationship

Feedback, Self-assessment & Goal-setting

Talk about reading / Rehearse

Stuff to read

Reading, Reading, Reading every day

Was I close?

No bets.

No money.

30 minutes invested in checking my understanding.

Thoughts?

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Here were Hannah’s Six Most Important Things.

One small corner of my brain organized and ready for tomorrow’s learning.

So by tomorrow night I can be back at one of these stages . . .

     

Summertime,

Summertime,

Sum, sum, sum, summertime Learning . . .

It’s the best!