Hello Laura, Remind me: Will our discussion be on the website or through email? Mary
Sent from my iPad On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I am so excited to get started on this discussion. I'd like to take this > slowly and really try to push each other as we deepen our thinking about > inquiry. I will open a new discussion each Saturday and we will then discuss > and respond to each other's ideas. I want to start with an introduction of > who we are and what has drawn us to this group. > > This week, please read the introduction and Chapter 1 of the book. I will > post some discussion questions shortly, but in the meantime I'd like to begin > creating our online community. I'd like to remind us all to refrain from > sending "me too", or "I agree" type messages. The best way for us to grow in > our practice is to move beyond those types of responses. > > ---- > > My name is Laura Kump. I am the owner of the Readinglady.com website. I am > a National Board Certified teacher currently working as a Literacy Coach in a > K - 5 school located on Staten Island, NY. I have taught at the elementary > level for 15 years, and have also taught at the college level. I have been > trying for the past 2 years to revamp my school's literacy curriculum. We > were a Teachers College school, but I felt that we needed to raise our levels > of instruction. I read E.D. Hirsch's book - The Knowledge Defecit and truly > felt that this was a major issue. I have been working in a comprehension > study group through my network and we are trying to embed inquiry and content > into our literacy units. It has not been an easy road. Some of my teachers > were excited about the idea of moving toward this type of instruction. > Others were less excited about reworking the curriculum yet again. Now with > the release of the Common Core State Standards I feel we are definitely on > the right path. In June I attended two days of professional development. > The book we used and studied was Harvey Daniels and Stehanie Harvey's. As I > sat there and viewed the video clips and read the text I was so excited. I > felt like I finally had something my teachers and I could wrap my mind > around. I look forward to revisiting this text with all of you. I know you > will push me to new levels of understanding, and help me create a new plan of > action. I look forward to working with you all. > > Laura Kump > readinglady.com > > _______________________________________________ > ICIA mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/icia_literacyworkshop.org
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