My Day

Monday, April 6 ,2020

Watched a new tutorial from OPALS on how to add videos to the library home page. I may post some of these National Poetry Month videos there.

Send poem-of-the-day to students and staff; one from our archive of dozens of ACS students and staff  each doing a line of "Casey at the Bat". Followed up on some of the responses.

Drafted a resource suggestion to send to  ELA teachers: class-set ebooks from SORA and book support resources from Teaching Books.

Read the NYT Book Review.

Reading in Part II of The Knowledge Gap. She makes the point that many schools have misinterpreted Bloom's Taxonomy in as much as the base of the pyramid - remembering and understanding are not inferior to the "higher level" analyzing, evaluating, creating; rather they are the foundation that enables those other skills. Her point being that as much as we tantalize students with those "peak" skills, they cannot connect the dots without content; which she says we have forsaken; especially at the elementary level when learning to read.