TikTok or Bust! - An Educator's Journey to Embrace TikTok
It's not really about TikTok so much as it is embracing the vulnerability it takes to learn something as public as social media platforms...
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Kristen Henry
- Nov 30, 2021
- 5 min
Digital Inequalities & Educators
What the research says and what you need to know to face digital inequalities in your classroom, district, policy, and beyond You’ve...
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Kristen Henry
- Oct 5, 2021
- 6 min
Defining Literacy Education
Words matter. Their definitions matter. In fact, as Gee (2015) writes, “Words are consequential … Words and the world are married” (p....
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Kristen Henry
- Aug 25, 2020
- 4 min
Why create an intentional classroom? Why now? Why always?
Clear goals have never been more crucial to instruction than during this time in education Before the strategies, before the activities,...
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Kristen Henry
- Aug 12, 2020
- 4 min
Online reader-writer workshop? Absolutely!
This might just be the perfect time to use this student-directed approach to reading and writing If you are like most ELA teachers right...
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Kristen Henry
- Jul 20, 2020
- 4 min
So you're teaching online for at least the first three weeks. Now what?
Take a little time and create a video explaining your class. Do your best to get the students excited and interested.
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Kristen Henry
- May 19, 2020
- 4 min
Preparing for Hybrid Teaching & Learning
If you felt you were scrambling and just trying to keep your head above water, summer is the time to get comfortable...
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Kristen Henry
- Apr 26, 2020
- 3 min
Google Apps for Education is more than just Google Classroom
Now that we’ve gotten a better handle on remote and online learning, let’s try to harness more of what the whole technology suite has to...
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Kristen Henry
- Apr 13, 2020
- 3 min
Dear teacher
A letter to all of you the amazing educators that I miss every day Dear teacher, I know you are doing your best in a rough situation. I...
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Kristen Henry
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
The events that change us... and the world
We are living in a time that will change not only us, but society. So let's take a moment to take a breath. As I lay in bed last night...
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Kristen Henry
- Mar 19, 2020
- 3 min
Finding the Opportunity
It would be easy to give in to the chaos and become pessimistic. Instead let’s reframe, find the opportunities available in this...
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Kristen Henry
- Mar 15, 2020
- 3 min
Online teaching and learning: What you can do right now with what you have
I am also including a list of free resources that I will continue to update, so please check back in for updates ***Updates*** I've heard...
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Kristen Henry
- Mar 14, 2020
- 3 min
Mindfulness in a time of crisis
With everything going on around us, it can be hard to center yourself and realize you can handle this To my regular readers, you may have...
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Kristen Henry
- Feb 24, 2020
- 3 min
Building Support - Intentionally Creating a Support System Outside of the Classroom
The relationships you create with your students aren’t the only ones worth being intentional about My last blog created the foundation...
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Kristen Henry
- Feb 15, 2020
- 2 min
Intentional Relationship Building
Relationships with students, especially “difficult” students, don’t just happen. It takes purpose and design. This month as we go deeper...
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Kristen Henry
- Jan 26, 2020
- 2 min
Set an Intention to Learn
Continued professional development shouldn’t get lost in the hustle and bustle of the school year I’m writing this as I head home from...
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Kristen Henry
- Jan 11, 2020
- 2 min
Intentional: What does it mean?
If your goal is to create an intentional classroom, what does that mean for you? Merriam-Webster defines intentional as done by intention...
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Kristen Henry
- Jan 4, 2020
- 2 min
January: Setting intentions
If we want to accomplish something, the first thing we have to do is set that intention If you’re anything like me, the past two weeks...
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Kristen Henry
- Dec 3, 2019
- 2 min
Time to Talk
Why taking a few minutes to confer with students is worth the class time – and can be done in more ways than one We know that there is...
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Kristen Henry
- Nov 19, 2019
- 3 min
Reading love - helping students find what they like and love to read
For many students, not liking reading is more about not finding what they like than not liking reading at all A few years ago, I was...
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