Melissa Surber
mel-jean.bsky.social
Melissa Surber
@mel-jean.bsky.social
Newbie Instructional Coach, OG ELA Teacher, Wannabe Poet
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I'm starting to realize that a lot of folks (too many?) in education think of "efficiency" as something that helps with learning whereas I'm over here trying to intentionally create friction...
April 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The Pudding has created a pretty impressive site sharing results of a national poll of middle schoolers pudding.cool/2025/02/midd...
The Middle Ages
Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their treacherous middle school years.
pudding.cool
March 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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"The success of novel instruction hinges not just on the quality of the books we teach but on the intellectual culture we surround them with."

hechingerreport.org/teacher-voic...
TEACHER VOICE: Instead of  assuming that kids won't read novels, give them skills to defend their analysis  - The Hechinger Report
Reading novels puts students in community with complex ideas they can explore across weeks. Novels are powerful pedagogy because they are hard and time-consuming to teach. A good curriculum rises to t...
hechingerreport.org
March 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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And afterward: the Jedi Order of operations. ⭐

#MathSky
Explore the Distributive Property of Multiplication via #MathPlay 🧮✖️

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January 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM