Angela Faulhaber
@afaulhaber.bsky.social
Educator, writer, reader. Literacy coach turned admin, trying to build bridges so we can open doors for kids.
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This is a great way to frame your thinking about a new goal in your classroom.
Thinking ahead to the upcoming school year, I want all of my reflecting/planning to start with this document once again:
1⃣ what will my "new" be as a teacher?
2⃣ what do I want to get "better" at?
3⃣ what is a "strength" I want to double-down on?
1⃣ what will my "new" be as a teacher?
2⃣ what do I want to get "better" at?
3⃣ what is a "strength" I want to double-down on?
July 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is a great way to frame your thinking about a new goal in your classroom.
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One thing I’m super proud of that I wish I had when I was a new teacher? This checklist for new (and newish) teachers where they can document all their information! Send it to all the new teachers and share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
June 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
One thing I’m super proud of that I wish I had when I was a new teacher? This checklist for new (and newish) teachers where they can document all their information! Send it to all the new teachers and share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Looking for team building activities for your class?
These 10 fun and engaging activities are perfect for the first few weeks of school, a new semester or anytime you need some team building fun!
https://f.mtr.cool/jesbwmttfp #EduSky
These 10 fun and engaging activities are perfect for the first few weeks of school, a new semester or anytime you need some team building fun!
https://f.mtr.cool/jesbwmttfp #EduSky
April 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Looking for team building activities for your class?
These 10 fun and engaging activities are perfect for the first few weeks of school, a new semester or anytime you need some team building fun!
https://f.mtr.cool/jesbwmttfp #EduSky
These 10 fun and engaging activities are perfect for the first few weeks of school, a new semester or anytime you need some team building fun!
https://f.mtr.cool/jesbwmttfp #EduSky
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Teachers: Looking for ways (other than grade penalties) to hold students accountable for late work?
@mrrablin.bsky.social developed “the most effective lever I ever used to incentivize productive behaviors with assignments.”
It’s called a late work contract. Here’s how it works.
#EduSky
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@mrrablin.bsky.social developed “the most effective lever I ever used to incentivize productive behaviors with assignments.”
It’s called a late work contract. Here’s how it works.
#EduSky
🧵 1/6
April 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Teachers: Looking for ways (other than grade penalties) to hold students accountable for late work?
@mrrablin.bsky.social developed “the most effective lever I ever used to incentivize productive behaviors with assignments.”
It’s called a late work contract. Here’s how it works.
#EduSky
🧵 1/6
@mrrablin.bsky.social developed “the most effective lever I ever used to incentivize productive behaviors with assignments.”
It’s called a late work contract. Here’s how it works.
#EduSky
🧵 1/6
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💥 Assignment help is not intervention. Instead of asking special educators to assist with assignments and #homework, let's ask them to support foundational SKILLS and deep UNDERSTANDING. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL #InclusiveEd #EdLeaders
March 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
💥 Assignment help is not intervention. Instead of asking special educators to assist with assignments and #homework, let's ask them to support foundational SKILLS and deep UNDERSTANDING. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL #InclusiveEd #EdLeaders
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More of this in secondary writing instruction. It’s crazy to me that I used to ask students to write in a genre they’ve never read. Providing Ss with mentor texts has been revelatory. Activities like this set Ss to read/think like writers instead of having it artificially drilled it into them.
So, this morning, I used this #mentortext of a movie review to pull mentor sentences, name the craft moves I saw within each, and then write my own about a novel I just finished. Then, used those sentences to shape a mini-review I developed. 1/2
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Mentor Sentences from "Bridget Jones Never Gets Old" by Sophie Gilbert
Mentor Sentence from “Bridget Jones Never Gets Old” by Sophie Gilbert Craft moves: What does the author DO? Try it: My analysis: Protagonist Gifty in Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Why? On paper, Bridget can be compellingly hard to pin down, inconstant and ironic, messily self-a...
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February 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
More of this in secondary writing instruction. It’s crazy to me that I used to ask students to write in a genre they’ve never read. Providing Ss with mentor texts has been revelatory. Activities like this set Ss to read/think like writers instead of having it artificially drilled it into them.
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✍️ The ultimate text evidence game-changer: Students co-create a quote bank BEFORE writing their essay. Watch engagement & analysis skills skyrocket! Here's how one simple Google Form does the magic ✨
Link: https://buff.ly/2Nilt4R
#EduSky
Link: https://buff.ly/2Nilt4R
#EduSky
Scaffolding Academic Writing: Crowdsourcing The Evidence
Lit and Tech helps teachers integrate EdTech and literacy strategies to engage students, spark creativity, and improve classroom learning.
buff.ly
February 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
✍️ The ultimate text evidence game-changer: Students co-create a quote bank BEFORE writing their essay. Watch engagement & analysis skills skyrocket! Here's how one simple Google Form does the magic ✨
Link: https://buff.ly/2Nilt4R
#EduSky
Link: https://buff.ly/2Nilt4R
#EduSky
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Yes...and using our voice to advocate for smaller class sizes, particularly as veteran teachers, is something we can control.
You can't out-strategize classes that are too big.
You can't out-strategize classes that are too big.
Class size: It's outside of your control. Veteran teachers share #ClassroomManagement tips that scale, including the power of meaningful greetings, good openers, and #EdTech. 🏫
How Veteran Teachers Make Large Classrooms Feel More Manageable
Big classes pose special management challenges, but finding scalable tactics and establishing consistent rules make all the difference.
buff.ly
January 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Yes...and using our voice to advocate for smaller class sizes, particularly as veteran teachers, is something we can control.
You can't out-strategize classes that are too big.
You can't out-strategize classes that are too big.
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Curious about what a 90-minute lesson look likes?
I decided to spend some time breaking down each step of a recent lesson—one with zero use of 1:1 devices, I'll add!—and doing my best to lay out how/why from the teacher perspective:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-a-90-...
I decided to spend some time breaking down each step of a recent lesson—one with zero use of 1:1 devices, I'll add!—and doing my best to lay out how/why from the teacher perspective:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-a-90-...
What a 90-minute lesson can look like
a step-by-step example of how a lesson went in our classroom last week
thebrokencopier.substack.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Curious about what a 90-minute lesson look likes?
I decided to spend some time breaking down each step of a recent lesson—one with zero use of 1:1 devices, I'll add!—and doing my best to lay out how/why from the teacher perspective:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-a-90-...
I decided to spend some time breaking down each step of a recent lesson—one with zero use of 1:1 devices, I'll add!—and doing my best to lay out how/why from the teacher perspective:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-a-90-...
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"It’s an important reminder to all of us that surviving the classroom by teaching to only those students who appear to care is a surefire way to alienate others who really do."
Someone make this a required poster in all classrooms.
Someone make this a required poster in all classrooms.
Highly recommend this reflective essay from Temple Prof. Seth Bruggeman. It captures the central challenge of teaching today in a system that over time has become entirely transactional, and then suddenly technology that could satisfy the transaction arrived. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
A crisis of trust in the classroom (opinion)
The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes.
www.insidehighered.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"It’s an important reminder to all of us that surviving the classroom by teaching to only those students who appear to care is a surefire way to alienate others who really do."
Someone make this a required poster in all classrooms.
Someone make this a required poster in all classrooms.
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ICYMI, here's my latest piece w/ideas on what to do when you have an extra 15 minutes in a lesson or at the end of the year after testing is done & students are less focused. Let's use the time well, in substantive activities that advance student learning and creativity. www.amle.org/when-the-les...
When the Lesson Ends Early or Testing is Finished for the Year: Making the Best Use of that After-Time and Learning - AMLE
An empty, last fifteen minutes of class time is very rare. We want to be ready, though, for “found time,” opportunities, prepared with activities that support the course and related content, not simpl...
www.amle.org
January 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ICYMI, here's my latest piece w/ideas on what to do when you have an extra 15 minutes in a lesson or at the end of the year after testing is done & students are less focused. Let's use the time well, in substantive activities that advance student learning and creativity. www.amle.org/when-the-les...
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"Student apathy is undoubtedly continuing to rise, but it hasn't made the job feel harder. It has just forced me to rethink how much I can care. I can't pull anyone across the finish line, but I can keep on cheering them on, and that is what I will do."
This sequence 🙏
This sequence 🙏
New Blog Post up www.liftingliteracy.com/post/reflect.... #liftingliteracy
Reflections and Moving Forward
Well, it is New Year's Eve. I have written a Festivus grievance post for many years, but this year, it slipped my mind. I think I have felt so busy that I sort of just shut down the moment the Christmas break started. I don't feel like the job of teaching has been substantially harder this year. Student apathy is undoubtedly continuing to rise, but it hasn't made the job feel harder. It has just forced me to rethink how much I can care. I can't pull anyone across the finish line, but I can keep
www.liftingliteracy.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"Student apathy is undoubtedly continuing to rise, but it hasn't made the job feel harder. It has just forced me to rethink how much I can care. I can't pull anyone across the finish line, but I can keep on cheering them on, and that is what I will do."
This sequence 🙏
This sequence 🙏
What a smart way to get kids to read closely!
I’m curious about how this quick close reading activity will work tomorrow using an #AI image based on a bit of text.
Will they slow down and notice details in Miller’s words? I’ll keep you posted!
Will they slow down and notice details in Miller’s words? I’ll keep you posted!
January 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
What a smart way to get kids to read closely!
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Took a page from @heymrsbond.com and had all our Advisory students (a group of freshmen!) draft an email home to their families updating them on what has gone well this school year thus far and how they want to improve going forward.
One of our best activities of the entire semester! 🙏
One of our best activities of the entire semester! 🙏
December 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Took a page from @heymrsbond.com and had all our Advisory students (a group of freshmen!) draft an email home to their families updating them on what has gone well this school year thus far and how they want to improve going forward.
One of our best activities of the entire semester! 🙏
One of our best activities of the entire semester! 🙏
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We are wasting the resource of our special education teachers if we limit them mostly to helping students complete work. Their skills can reach so much farther when they are in the role of co-designing instruction. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL
December 16, 2024 at 11:25 PM
We are wasting the resource of our special education teachers if we limit them mostly to helping students complete work. Their skills can reach so much farther when they are in the role of co-designing instruction. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL
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New Post:
"A Pedagogical Shift: Writing and Thinking Beside A.I."
elafieldbook.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/a...
"A Pedagogical Shift: Writing and Thinking Beside A.I."
elafieldbook.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/a...
A Pedagogical Shift: Writing and Thinking Beside A.I.
Writing is a personal act and with it comes new knowledge. Something tangible. Something we call our own. Something to show the world what we’ve learned. Most writers will tell you that, collective…
elafieldbook.wordpress.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:28 AM
New Post:
"A Pedagogical Shift: Writing and Thinking Beside A.I."
elafieldbook.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/a...
"A Pedagogical Shift: Writing and Thinking Beside A.I."
elafieldbook.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/a...
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This is an excerpt from my latest book. —————What Kind of Feedback Best Motivates Students? www.middleweb.com/48823/what-k.... This appeared in @middleweb.bsky.social
Giving Students Feedback That Builds Intrinsic Motivation
Classroom teacher and popular blogger Larry Ferlazzo shares ways to give feedback that enhances students’ sense of competence and builds intrinsic motivation.
www.middleweb.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:29 PM
This is an excerpt from my latest book. —————What Kind of Feedback Best Motivates Students? www.middleweb.com/48823/what-k.... This appeared in @middleweb.bsky.social
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✍️ The ultimate text evidence game-changer: Students co-create a quote bank BEFORE writing their essay. Watch engagement & analysis skills skyrocket! Here's how one simple Google Form does the magic ✨
Link: https://buff.ly/2Nilt4R
#EduSky
Link: https://buff.ly/2Nilt4R
#EduSky
Scaffolding Academic Writing: Crowdsourcing The Evidence
An educational blog about edtech and literacy by a high school English teacher who is an author and a Google For Education Certified Innovator.
buff.ly
December 2, 2024 at 10:18 PM
✍️ The ultimate text evidence game-changer: Students co-create a quote bank BEFORE writing their essay. Watch engagement & analysis skills skyrocket! Here's how one simple Google Form does the magic ✨
Link: https://buff.ly/2Nilt4R
#EduSky
Link: https://buff.ly/2Nilt4R
#EduSky
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Reasonable goals for every class period, every day:
1️⃣ every student hears their name spoken aloud
2️⃣ every student gets a chance to share aloud to peers
1️⃣ every student hears their name spoken aloud
2️⃣ every student gets a chance to share aloud to peers
November 30, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Reasonable goals for every class period, every day:
1️⃣ every student hears their name spoken aloud
2️⃣ every student gets a chance to share aloud to peers
1️⃣ every student hears their name spoken aloud
2️⃣ every student gets a chance to share aloud to peers
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If a student is having trouble with an assignment, the goal of intervention time isn't to get through the assignment. The goal of any intervention is to improve the transferable skill that is at the root of the challenge. Homework help isn't intervention. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #InclusiveEd
November 27, 2024 at 12:33 AM
If a student is having trouble with an assignment, the goal of intervention time isn't to get through the assignment. The goal of any intervention is to improve the transferable skill that is at the root of the challenge. Homework help isn't intervention. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #InclusiveEd
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Straight up copying is DOK 0.
Note taking CAN be higher level thinking but it requires summarizing, synthesizing, and making decisions.
#DOKchat
Note taking CAN be higher level thinking but it requires summarizing, synthesizing, and making decisions.
#DOKchat
November 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Straight up copying is DOK 0.
Note taking CAN be higher level thinking but it requires summarizing, synthesizing, and making decisions.
#DOKchat
Note taking CAN be higher level thinking but it requires summarizing, synthesizing, and making decisions.
#DOKchat
It is so nice to see familiar faces that were pushed out of my feed in the other algorithm!
November 18, 2024 at 1:24 AM
It is so nice to see familiar faces that were pushed out of my feed in the other algorithm!