Alexandra WoodsReflections on my first year as a literacy coach #OntEdIt’s the first week of July, and it’s hard to believe the school year is over. Time, like sand, has slipped through my fingers. I’m…Jul 10, 20231
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal Teacher10 Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to You — As Your TeacherTomorrow I begin using mentor texts as models for my students’ writing. Below, I have adapted Jason Reynolds’ “10 Things I’ve Been Meaning…Sep 6, 2019
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherVoice, Choice & Explicit Literacy Instruction in the Secondary English ClassroomChart paper is tacked onto the walls with words dissected into parts; books are everywhere: in shelves (some labelled by category — books…Mar 20, 2023Mar 20, 2023
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherWhen you give a kid a sentence, they might just change the world.The Power of Natalie Wexler’s “because-but-so”Dec 10, 2022Dec 10, 2022
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherAn Embodied Lesson in FlightThe rink is smooth as glass and we are the only ones there. I station myself beside our youngest, who is struggling to keep herself…Oct 12, 2022Oct 12, 2022
Alexandra WoodsReflections on my first year as a literacy coach #OntEdIt’s the first week of July, and it’s hard to believe the school year is over. Time, like sand, has slipped through my fingers. I’m…Jul 10, 20231
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal Teacher10 Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to You — As Your TeacherTomorrow I begin using mentor texts as models for my students’ writing. Below, I have adapted Jason Reynolds’ “10 Things I’ve Been Meaning…Sep 6, 2019
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherVoice, Choice & Explicit Literacy Instruction in the Secondary English ClassroomChart paper is tacked onto the walls with words dissected into parts; books are everywhere: in shelves (some labelled by category — books…Mar 20, 2023
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherWhen you give a kid a sentence, they might just change the world.The Power of Natalie Wexler’s “because-but-so”Dec 10, 2022
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherAn Embodied Lesson in FlightThe rink is smooth as glass and we are the only ones there. I station myself beside our youngest, who is struggling to keep herself…Oct 12, 2022
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherStudent-Centered Teaching as Radical Compassion & CollaborationWe had been home for a week when she started wiping her toothbrush compulsively and would not let me get close to her because she didn’t…Jul 7, 2022
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherFostering Thinking Teachers in the Time of COVIDIn a previous post, I drew upon Caswell, Esmonde & Takeuchi’s article “Towards Culturally Relevant and Responsive Teaching of Mathematics”…May 13, 2022
Alexandra WoodsinThe Reciprocal TeacherA 30, 000 foot viewThe helicopters whirr as I put toothpaste on my daughter’s brush. And I think about the view from up there. The 30 000 foot view.Feb 22, 2022
