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RCPS Trainers' Sites - RCPS Technology
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Educating Today's Learner, Developing Tomorrow's Future. GAFE Accounts for Students. Find us in the staff directory on the main RCPS website. What do we do? We are all former classroom teachers. Learn more about our role here. Rockingham County (VA) Public Schools. 100 Mt. Clinton Pike • Harrisonburg, VA 22802. Phone) 540.564.3200. Carol Fenn, Ed.D. With questions about this website, please contact. Oskar Scheikl, Ph.D. Director of Information Management. 2016 Rockingham County Public Schools.
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Big Changes - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. Oh my goodness, how is it ALREADY almost the END of MAY? I resolved to post. Once a month; that didn't seem like too much to ask. Set small goals. Be realistic. I tell my students that kind of advice every day, and yet here I am, at the end of May, with no post since the end of March! Anyway, I've never put anything in the Gobbler Gab myself before, but here's what I wrote for our school newsletter this month:. What a pri...
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The Comfort of Knowing: Rereading Harry Potter - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. The Comfort of Knowing: Rereading Harry Potter. A quick side note to my frequent readers:. I have taken a LONG break from the blog to finish my pregnancy term, prepare for the upcoming school year with my absence and new class preps, and have my precious baby, but I'm back now and plan to be consistent with posting each week or two. Thank you for your patience and for reading! And I could still watch each of them on a dai...
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Book Review: Wonder by R. J. Palacio - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. Book Review: Wonder by R. J. Palacio. Let's talk about a wonderful book. (I want you to know that I have tried at least five times to start with something that didn't play on the title, but. No, really, getting back to the point (man, that was a long digression- you can tell what things are like in my brain these days! What I love about this book:. It tackles complex issues with compassion and awareness. Overall, this is ...
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Blog Posts - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. Oh my goodness, how is it ALREADY almost the END of MAY? I resolved to post. Once a month; that didn't seem like too much to ask. Set small goals. Be realistic. I tell my students that kind of advice every day, and yet here I am, at the end of May, with no post since the end of March! Anyway, I've never put anything in the Gobbler Gab myself before, but here's what I wrote for our school newsletter this month:. What a pri...
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Differentiation Lesson Plan: Welty's "A Worn Path" - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. Differentiation Lesson Plan: Welty's A Worn Path. First of all, if you haven't read Eudora Welty's lovely short story, "A Worn Path," take the time to read it. Although it's a "traditional" text often found in textbooks, it is one that resonates with students and results in good engagement and strong discussions. For those who are teaching English 11 through the literary movements, this piece fits into Modernism. The firs...
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Blog Archives - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. Oh my goodness, how is it ALREADY almost the END of MAY? I resolved to post. Once a month; that didn't seem like too much to ask. Set small goals. Be realistic. I tell my students that kind of advice every day, and yet here I am, at the end of May, with no post since the end of March! Anyway, I've never put anything in the Gobbler Gab myself before, but here's what I wrote for our school newsletter this month:. What a pri...
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Guest Post: Alter Egos - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. Guest Post: Alter Egos. The following post comes to you from Brittany Goza, a teacher in South Carolina. Here's a little bit about her:. Check out her blog here. Creating Alter Egos: Project by Brittany Goza. To access this site, your school must have a Scholastic subscription). In my English I class, we are reading. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The main character in the student’s story is supposed to be their a...
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Text Pairings and Social Issues - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. Text Pairings and Social Issues. Things have been busy lately. You know how that goes, I'm sure. One of the things I do when I get stressed is start LOTS of things without finishing ANY of them. I've been desperately trying to post more frequently, but the whole month of December already slipped through my fingers, and now I'm at the end of January. The first idea is using YA literature for text pairings:. About being kid...
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Blog Archives - Teaching the Apocalypse
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The Apocalyptic Era: Teaching and YA Lit Blog. A Shout into the Void: Writing Blog. NCTE National Conferences: Highlights and Tips. The NCTE annual conference is such an amazing, invigorating experience. I also found that when teachers really pushed to attend, we were able to get not only approval but also some funding to help cover the costs of the trip. Go ahead and start planning NOW for the conference next year! Here are some tips for first-timers at NCTE:. On Friday), and we found that we had to wal...