I’m over at Teen Vogue today with an article about how social media impacted the 2016 presidential election. Check it out here.
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The Crime Gene? No Such Thing.
I have an essay up on Goodhousekeeping.com today that explores the idea of the crime gene. Take a look at how fear impacted my parenting during my lowest moment, and how gathering courage to face that fear allowed for me to be a better parent and person.
“A week after the birth of my third child, I brought a few cups from the kitchen table to the growing pile of dirty dishes on the counter, too exhausted to actually load them. The C-section and my son Michael’s stay in the NICU had taken its toll, and I could barely function…”
Read the rest of the essay here!
KidLit for Aleppo
I’m participating in #kidlitforAleppo on Twitter through Wed. 12/21. If you make a donation to an organization helping in Aleppo, post an image of your receipt (mark out the identifying details or take a screenshot of any part of the e-receipt that doesn’t show your personal information) to my Tweet here. I will randomly choose a winner on 12/22.
For a background on #kidlitforAleppo, or to see what organizations qualify, click on Dana Alison Levy’s post, “The Stories We Don’t Want to Tell: Aleppo.” (Note: Dana Alison Levy and Rachel Allen came up with the idea)
Young casualties of our war on crime: How Trump & Sessions’ approach to incarceration will hurt the children of inmates
I argue Donald Trump’s proposed tough-on-crime policies will be tougher on children in this op-Ed piece in the NY Daily News.
President Obama, releasing a new batch of non-violent drug offenders, has just set a single-year clemency record…
Try it Tuesday: Silent Sticky Conferences
What a great idea to establish trust and conversations with your students. And a boost to writing, too! I love this!
A burning question I seem to repeat year after year is “How do I talk to more of my students one-on-one beginning on the first day of school?”
I know the value of making eye contact with the adolescents who enter my room. I know the importance of making them feel like they belong here — like they are in a place where they can be themselves, a place where they want to learn.
I confer regularly with my students — about their reading lives and their writing lives — but every year it seems to take me a while to get in the groove. You know, get all the procedures introduced and underway, get students interested in books (and sometimes reading itself), learn names, set up our writer’s notebooks and our blogs and all the different bits of technology we use regularly like Google Classroom and Twitter.
I know all…
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Pamela Brunskill 