Snapshot of Gail Desler and Natalie Bernasconi at Microsoft celebration in Seattle

How Can a Distracted Generation Learn Anything? – An Interview with BBC

Posted on February 24, 2019February 27, 2019 by blogwalker

Two weeks ago, via my district email, Nicholas Mancall-Bitel contacted me with a request: “I’m a freelance writer working on an article for BBC Capital about the challenges of teaching G... Read More

Teaching and Learning in the Time of Trump

Posted on December 11, 2016December 11, 2016 by blogwalker

Last week a school district colleague shared a beautiful letter her 9th grade daughter Emma had written for a homework assignment: Write a persuasive essay on a topic you care about. Emma chose the ... Read More

Post-Election Resources for Teachers

Posted on November 20, 2016November 20, 2016 by blogwalker

Friday night was book club night, a favorite monthly event. For 16 years we’ve been coming together to discuss, over wine and dinner, good literature, education and, occasionally, politics. Al... Read More

Creating a Culture of Civility

Posted on October 17, 2016 by blogwalker

The October issue of entrsekt, ISTE’s quarterly journal, immediately caught my attention – with the cover boldly featuring Jennifer Snelling’s “A Culture of Civility: Th... Read More

NWP 20, Hmong 40

Posted on May 10, 2015May 11, 2015 by blogwalker

Twenty years ago, I started on an amazing, ongoing professional development journey by applying for the Area 3 Writing Project’s Summer Institute (SI). I knew from the opening day that my SI experie... Read More

Helping Students Flex Their Reading Level/Lexile Muscles

Posted on November 30, 2014 by blogwalker

I grew up in a home with books. In the room we referred to as the “den,” an entire wall was lined with my parents’ books and book collections. There was also a small glass three-shel... Read More

NWP Radio – Sharing the Microphone with Student Upstanders

Posted on May 24, 2013May 24, 2013 by blogwalker

It was my privilege to join NWP’s Paul Oh, Common Sense Media’s Merve Lapus, CWP’s Jayne Marlink, and my Digital ID co-curator Natalie Bernasconi for last night’s NWP Radio Tal... Read More

Travel to Rwanda on Student-led Virtual Tour

Posted on July 8, 2012July 8, 2012 by blogwalker

I’ve never been to Rwanda. Ever since the 100-day genocide – and after watching Hotel Rwanda – I’ve followed news stories, always hoping to better understand how survivors fi... Read More

Teachers Teaching Teachers – Connected learning for educators

Posted on May 27, 2012 by blogwalker

I have a folder in my file cabinet marked Teachers Teaching Teachers. In it are notes I’ve jotted down from various Teachers Teaching Teachers shows – snippets of inspiring quotes from tea... Read More

Igniting National Poetry Month – 2012 Update

Posted on April 6, 2012April 6, 2012 by blogwalker

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” Salman Rushdie It’s April... Read More

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