Mrs. Avissato

@MrsMeredithNKHS @pennykittle @LindaMRief @NCTE I couldn't help but note the irony being in sessions encouraging advocacy and being responsive to learners when NCTE failed to respond to teachers as Ss. Allow us to register ahead of time for sessions so appropriately sized rooms can be planned.

Very disappointed that #NCTE19 scheduled @pennykittle talking about giving feedback in a room for 50. We got close but didn’t make the cut. @LindaMRief was a sweetheart and even offered to let us in front of her, but none of us made it in. ☹️

Tommy Orange, author of There, There: The paradoxical truth of good writing--The more specific, the more universal #ncte19 instagram.com/p/B5NskovF3XK/…

George Takei at NCTE: The Starship Enterprise is a metaphor for the Starship Earth; our strength is our diversity. #ncte19 instagram.com/p/B5Jv1ZTgffd/…

@united The environment cries and so do the babies...sitting on the tarmac as we burn fuel due to the plane being over-fueled. #incompetent #shameonyou

So much inspiration at #ncte18 but learning from and meeting Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher was definitely a highlight @ Houston Convention Center Hotel instagram.com/p/BqUw6XRg6oE/…

@NAEmmanuele @_MGlackin @ncte Love this idea! Can you share a file of what you had the kids read for each?

@_MGlackin @ncte Volume, rate, emphasis, articulation, word choice, poise, body position, gestures, eye contact, & facial expressions

Yesterday, my ninth graders practiced their #speaking skills. Each pair read an element of #speech (volume, rate, poise, gestures, etc.). One read the info doing that trait well, and the other doing it poorly. We were in tears laughing at the “bad” ones. Everyone presented! @ncte

@coreyschneid @BEHS_SDE Sweet! I have to teach the play in the spring, so maybe we can take a field trip 😉

Quidditch competition at VSHS! @VictorSchools

@gretchenegner Call me impressed!

@Imaginedu Counterpoint: CEEAL is about helping kids recognize what effective writers do, giving names to the craft.

Food for thought for my science and math inclined students who don't see the value in humanities classes qz.com/1016900 via @qz

Date night at The Boathouse with a great view #lakelife instagram.com/p/BVufWoFllKJ/

Reading and writing, every classroom, every day. #ElmbrookExcellence twitter.com/KyleneBeers/st…

Fist bump greetings: Meet the identity novel characters in E9 #InferenceSkills

Kids begged for more reading time so...#LoveMyLibrarian #ReadingCulture

An ever more vital step in teaching the research process: slate.com/articles/techn…

Picasso: "Without great solitude, no serious work is possible." In a plugged-in world, can students---and teachers---find solitude?

Cheat sheet from my husband for today's state football game haha #notReallyaSportsPerson #allAboutTheKids

Students struggle with writing when they don’t know or care enough about their topic. Have them read before setting fingers to keyboard.

It doesn't matter what you grade, or how you grade, if your kids are not writing a lot.