Jim Burke
@englishcomp.bsky.social
English teacher • Writer • Consultant • Speaker • Fly fisher • Husband • Father • New grandfather!
A great new discovery today: a new English teacher writing from the classroom and his own experience.
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A friend gave me back a book I lent him a long while ago: The New Analog by @Damon Krukowski. (You should read it.) It was written post-streaming services but pre-pandemic and pre-AI. I leafed through...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A great new discovery today: a new English teacher writing from the classroom and his own experience.
substack.com/@tjwilson/no...
substack.com/@tjwilson/no...
I just registered for this workshop with @escribescribe.bsky.social. You might want to check it out or share this along to others. cvent.me/aEe32e?sms=7...
R. Joseph Rodriguez presents: Youth Scribes and Their Writing Process in Action
Join me for this event R. Joseph Rodriguez presents: Youth Scribes and Their Writing Process in Action. Take a look!
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January 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I just registered for this workshop with @escribescribe.bsky.social. You might want to check it out or share this along to others. cvent.me/aEe32e?sms=7...
Tom Newkirk—always worth your time to read and consider. Thanks to Julian Grisham for this www.juliangirdham.com/blog/thomas-...
Thomas Newkirk's 'The Art of Slow Reading' — Julian Girdham
A revisiting of Thomas Newkirk’s book The Art of Slow Reading in the new AI world.
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January 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tom Newkirk—always worth your time to read and consider. Thanks to Julian Grisham for this www.juliangirdham.com/blog/thomas-...
Casper’s article of the day!
January 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Casper’s article of the day!
I have been working on an article about censorship lately and saw this in the NYT. It raises so many interesting questions--which is probably why it appeared in The Ethicist. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/m...
Can I Ban Books From My Front-Yard Little Free Library? (Gift Article)
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the curation of a book collection.
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January 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I have been working on an article about censorship lately and saw this in the NYT. It raises so many interesting questions--which is probably why it appeared in The Ethicist. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/m...
Gotta love this. youtu.be/QqAnpEWOse8?...
A.J. Brown on why he was reading a book on the sideline against the Packers
YouTube video by CBS Sports
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January 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Gotta love this. youtu.be/QqAnpEWOse8?...
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January 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I’ve had coffee with three former students this week: 20, 28, and 32. Such conversations provide a fascinating window on life, generations, and teaching. (I have 25, 30, and 32 year old “kids” but the conversations are always different when they’re your own!)
January 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I’ve had coffee with three former students this week: 20, 28, and 32. Such conversations provide a fascinating window on life, generations, and teaching. (I have 25, 30, and 32 year old “kids” but the conversations are always different when they’re your own!)
Best thing I’ll read today about attention, living, and learning: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here Is How I Mastered My Own. (Gift Article)
The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.
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January 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Best thing I’ll read today about attention, living, and learning: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Interesting new resource(s) re: close reading. John Guillory’s “Close Reading” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and this archive of close reading resources: www.closereadingarchive.org?utm_source=s...
Close Reading Archive
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December 26, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Interesting new resource(s) re: close reading. John Guillory’s “Close Reading” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and this archive of close reading resources: www.closereadingarchive.org?utm_source=s...
Consider doing what I call a two-way reflection in Teaching Better Day by Day: reflect on the year ending and the think about the year to come. Or you could use these EOY questions from @jamesclear.bsky.social : jamesclear.com/annual-review
Annual Reviews
Each year, I write my Annual Review. This page offers a complete list of the Annual Reviews I have written and explains my process.
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December 26, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Consider doing what I call a two-way reflection in Teaching Better Day by Day: reflect on the year ending and the think about the year to come. Or you could use these EOY questions from @jamesclear.bsky.social : jamesclear.com/annual-review
Think about this next time someone asks you what you do as a teacher: sketchplanations.com/the-three-br...
Sketchplanations - Simplifying complex ideas in sketches
The Three Bricklayers’ story illustrates the power of purpose. What is the 3 Bricklayers Story? A simple version goes that a person walked past a building project and asked three workers the same ques...
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December 23, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Think about this next time someone asks you what you do as a teacher: sketchplanations.com/the-three-br...
Overheard while shopping in Green Apple Books in SF this morning: “OH I thought that was the fiction section but it is the nonfiction section. I WISH more of what is on those displays was fiction!”
December 20, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Overheard while shopping in Green Apple Books in SF this morning: “OH I thought that was the fiction section but it is the nonfiction section. I WISH more of what is on those displays was fiction!”
Excited to read this new book by Jeff Wilhelm, Michael Smith et al. Such smart guys and grateful for the years of presenting with them at NCTE:
December 20, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Excited to read this new book by Jeff Wilhelm, Michael Smith et al. Such smart guys and grateful for the years of presenting with them at NCTE:
I’ll be working on an article the next few days based on this presentation from NCTE this year titled “Teaching in Troubled Times. Not everything will make sense without my explanation but most of it should be understandable. bit.ly/JBTroubledTi...
PRES_Teaching in Troubled Times (NCTE 2024)_JB Shared
You can access my slides for this presentation at bit.ly/JBTroubledTimes
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December 20, 2024 at 5:39 PM
I’ll be working on an article the next few days based on this presentation from NCTE this year titled “Teaching in Troubled Times. Not everything will make sense without my explanation but most of it should be understandable. bit.ly/JBTroubledTi...
I rewatched “The Godfather” last night and was reminded of this activity I adapted from Coppolla’s “Godfather Notebooks” where he talks about how he creates scenes from a book he reads: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g9ahr...
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December 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
I rewatched “The Godfather” last night and was reminded of this activity I adapted from Coppolla’s “Godfather Notebooks” where he talks about how he creates scenes from a book he reads: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g9ahr...
As teachers approach half-time in their school year, now is the time to reflect, review, and renew. My Teaching Better Day by Day offers a many ways to help teachers to this important work. www.corwin.com/books/teachi...
Teaching Better Day by Day
Can old-fashioned paper-and-pencil planning be cutting-edge? Yes, when it is a planner designed by master teacher Jim Burke, with space to dream big a...
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December 20, 2024 at 5:04 PM
As teachers approach half-time in their school year, now is the time to reflect, review, and renew. My Teaching Better Day by Day offers a many ways to help teachers to this important work. www.corwin.com/books/teachi...
Recommended Read: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/u...
Why Public School Curriculum Is Resistant to Political Pressure (Gift Article)
Politicians on both the left and the right have sought to change or limit what teachers can do inside classrooms. Teachers often ignore them.
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December 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Recommended Read: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/u...
Attention has my full attention these days. From The Atlantic: Many people believe that smartphones have ruined their ability to pay attention to what really matters in life, @kait_tiffany writes. Could a "School of Radical Attention" turn things around? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
A ‘Radical’ Approach to Reclaiming Your Attention
It’s not just about putting your phone away.
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December 19, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Attention has my full attention these days. From The Atlantic: Many people believe that smartphones have ruined their ability to pay attention to what really matters in life, @kait_tiffany writes. Could a "School of Radical Attention" turn things around? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Sharing a draft of instructional practices that support grammar and punctuation that can be integrated into any curriculum. Make it your own and make it better. It’s a quick first draft. What I do know is students need lots of engaging practice across domains. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Copy of Instructional Practices to Support Language Standards
Instructional Practices to Support Language Standards These can be done in whole group or small group lessons. They can become routines in the classroom so once students know how to do it they can re...
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December 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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As you wrap up the school year, we want to leave you with some writing instruction considerations from @candersonwriting.bsky.social and @mattgloverwriting.bsky.social for the new year.
Writing Instruction Considerations | Heinemann
In this action-based post, Carl and Matt help you think about how to evaluate an instructional approach to writing. Downloadable PDF included.
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December 19, 2024 at 2:22 PM
As you wrap up the school year, we want to leave you with some writing instruction considerations from @candersonwriting.bsky.social and @mattgloverwriting.bsky.social for the new year.
This story and her experience raise so many important and interesting questions: She graduated without learning to read. Now she’s suing her school.
December 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
This story and her experience raise so many important and interesting questions: She graduated without learning to read. Now she’s suing her school.