Summer Slide
The story goes that, in the summer, students lose a big part of what they've learned over the course of the school year. Without frequent practicing of skills and standards, their performance "slides. As a parent, I have thoughts around the other skills students develop when not in school seven hours a day, but I digress. As an educator, my own skills "slide" a bit in summer without constant practice. While I don't "work" in the traditional sense over summer - I try not to plan or engage in classroom specific content - I do engage in other professional growth. This summer, my top three professional activities have been: 1) Reading and Reviewing Young Adult Fiction A local bookseller contacted me about donating ARCs (Advanced Readers Copies) of YA Fiction to my classroom. As a middle school educator, I try to read what lands on my shelves before my students do. This summer, I've read nine works of YA fiction and added seven of them to my classro...