East Brunswick English Department

EBHS and CJHS teachers participating in Canvas PD @EBProgress @EBPublicSchools #teachersteachteachers

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! Here's your 2 week reminder for our next #EBedchat about meeting the needs of ALL learners!! Who is coming?!

CJHS 9th graders in NYC at To Kill Mockingbird! Thanks Mrs. Merton & Mrs. Winard for a great experience!“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” -Harper Lee @EBPublicSchools

Mrs.Domond’s APII students are exploring the importance of the handkerchief in Shakespeare’s Othello. @EBEnglishDept @EBPublicSchools @EBHSprinc #shakespeareisfun #studentengagement #othello

When I thought I was already feeling so lucky as a teacher, Lois Lowry also responded! Now my Honors students have a chance to ask an author their questions too. I cannot wait to tell them! @EBEnglishDept

A6. For us to always remember it is not about class size, access to technology, or curricular resources rather the single most important factor that impacts a child’s experience at school is her or her teacher! Thanks @ekaplanteach for an awesome #EBedchat

A4. The Palette Lit Mag club at CJHS has been a huge success because it provides students with an artistic outlet to write and perform about anything they want! It has fostered such a positive community at CJHS. Thanks for making students feel like they matter @LA_LeClair!

#ebedchat (I need to get better at this!) 🤦🏻‍♀️

A3. I think a perfect place for this in our English curriculum is with book clubs. We hope to group students in a club centered around a book they want to read and is at their level. This also gives our students choice!

@itskevyday Yes yes yes about the homework!!!!

Q1/A1 - (I don't think I'm formatting this correctly!!) Kevin Brady, EBHS, while "hurt people hurt people" was pretty catchy, it's probably a bit dark for question 1. So how about the gentle reminder that's so obvious - check in on our kids as people once in awhile(not just HW!)

A2. Sharing personal stories to help students relate to us. I also think it’s important to help students understand the grades they receive in the class is not an indication of a teacher’s opinion about them. #EBedchat

A1. Jess Loux, English DC for grades 8-12. The importance of building relationships with our students and reading their body language-sometimes a “yuck” face can tell us more more about them! #Ebedchat

A special thank you to author @HopeJahren for her generous donation to our students and to EBHS English teacher @itskevyday for initiating this collaboration! We look forward to reading your book with our seniors #ebhs #nonfiction #EBenglishdeptisthebest

Challenge accepted! @LA_LeClair @ms_cascioli @itskevyday we need to get the 8-12 English Dept to represent on June 8th #EBedchat #EBEnglishdeptisthebest twitter.com/ebproflearn/st…

@itskevyday I hope you felt confident when presenting to your colleagues-you did a great job sharing how you use google classroom for College Writing #EBedchat #EBEnglishdeptisthebest twitter.com/itskevyday/sta…

Thanks for sharing this best practice with our department @LA_LeClair #EBedchat #EBEnglishdeptisthebest twitter.com/la_leclair/sta…

A3. This year in our department meetings some teachers shared a best tech practice with their colleagues. These includes things like Padlet, Adobe Spark, FlipGrid and Piktocharts which definitely influenced others to try them out #EBedchat twitter.com/msspinato/stat…

Finally getting to join the chat! I use google forms to poll the English dept to get feedback on assessments and curricular changes. This will help inform our summer PD work #EBedchat twitter.com/msspinato/stat…

Ever wonder when and why kids lose the desire to read for pleasure? Here are some great ideas on how to reinvigorate that passion and love for books! #cjhs and #ebhs teachers, what else can we do to promote and encourage our students to read for fun? twitter.com/multcult07/sta…