Our English Department read (throughout March) and then discussed Kelly Gallagher's Deeper Reading at our meeting this past week.
Awesome! Wonderful! Empowering! Yes!
Now, if I can just implement but a few of his ideas, then the entire read (and money spent!) will be very much worth all the time and effort.
I blogged at Treasure Chest of Thoughts on my favorite quote: "Learning begins when we encounter confusion." I had never quite looked at learning from this standpoint, but it makes so much sense. Many classrooms are full of bored students due to our (the teachers) not creating scenes of confusion. Truly. With a bit of confusion, comes the spark for learning.
As I look over my book, I at almost at loss as to what to say, for I have never annotated, sticky-noted a book quite so much. This one is truly full of nuggets.
I suppose what I appreciate the most is that Gallagher is a teacher, still in the classroom, just like so many of us. For this, his voice resonates more, as was illustrated at this week's meeting, as one comment quickly followed another.
Our next departmental read is Gallagher's latest release: Write Like This. More about this one soon!
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