Sam Mosher

National Book Foundation Teacher Fellowship - National Book Foundation

Excited to finally be able to share that I'm a @nationalbook.bsky.social Teacher Fellow for the 2025-206 school year!

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Sam, a small fat white woman, wearing a grey T-shirt that says "read trans books"

Today's Pride Week @ CBHS outfit brought to you by @jupiterisdreaming.bsky.social's amazing designs

One of the teachers I coach came to me to tell me an AP in the building had listed webquests as a recommended strategy for him to start incorporating into his lessons.

I haven't seen anyone use a webquest since...2010? Is this still a lesson structure folks use?

THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ

I AM BEGGING YOU TO READ

THERE IS A REASON THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ!!

DON’T DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM BY REFUSING TO READ

Proud professor moment this week: all three of my students who I convinced to use their capstone projects as a starting point to submit a proposal to a local teacher practice focused literacy conference were accepted!

I'm so excited to see them all shine in March!

Last night my #LiteracyEd students presented their capstone projects and I could not be prouder of the work they did with action research, professional development, and self-reflection.

I definitely teared up on more than one occasion when they were sharing!

#TeacherEd #LiteracySpecialist

Every once in a while all of mine are for rings, then they're for fertility treatments/egg freezing. I just want ads for cute plus sized clothes and cat toys! Maybe speciality cocktail ingredients!

I'm pretty sure I got over zealous cleaning out old things when the college I work for stopped paying for a premium subscription

I also very well may have archived/deleted a bunch when they changed the max with a free account and don't remember 🫣

But the glow up deleted all my old padlets? I don't necessarily need them, but I'm annoyed

So apparently in the 6 months since I've used Padlet it's had a complete makeover and I can do exactly what I want? Wow.

gives kids an opportunity to PLAY that they don't normally get in upper middle and high school. There was so much deep thinking and so much JOY in that unit. I've taught other playwrights and other plays, but it just seems to work best with Shakespeare for reasons i can't articulate.

When I taught 8th grade, every year they'd dread the R&J unit, and every year they'd tell me it was their favorite. I agree with a lot of the other sentiments here, but teaching Shakespeare--especially using Folger or some similar performance and analysis based curriculum--1/

Padlet was my first thought, but I wish I could think of something where their work would be full sized instead of a thumbnail. Ideas?

#TeacherEd #Literacy #EdTech

The problem is, end of semester is hard and we have a lot of adjunct faculty (including me). The two times I've done this, only the dept chair has made it.

I'm looking for a platform where they can share their digital posters and get comments from faculty (like an async poster presentation)

Ok #edusky My literacy specialist grad students are making digital posters to share their research from their capstone projects. I'm working on making their end of term presentations something exciting that makes it really feel like a conclusion to their program. We have a party. They present, etc

To be very clear, as a teacher I don't want "time-saving AI tools."

I want time.

A table with sets of books and the label "if you like Dogman"

She even found books for the kids who only want to read Dogman

A table with sets of books and the label "if you like drama"

A table with sets of books and the label "if you like Mexikid"

A table with sets of books and the label "if you like when all HELL breaks loose"

A table with sets of books and the label "if you like Hearstopper"

Went down to see what our #SchoolLibrarian had set up for our #IfYouLikeThisReadThat lesson today and... y'all. She's so awesome.

Technology is a tool, not a learning outcomes. The graphic has right & wrong answers to the question "what do you want kids to do with technology?"

Telling me your shiny, new, expensive tool is teacher-proof is the only red flag I need to end a conversation immediately. It's an insult. Tools are nothing without teachers who can facilitate thoughtful use that pushes kids to think critically, ask questions & solve big problems. #EduSky

Obviously Stevenson's other works, particularly Lumberjanes fit the bill. But what else (including non-graphic title with similar vibes)

#ITeachEnglish #AdolescentLiteracy #YABookChat

Update: I gave one of the repeat Dogman readers a copy of Nimona on Friday. She came in today and told me she was on page 150 of 272.

This kid has not read more than 10 pages of any book she's picked up since the beginning of the school year.

So now I need more books like Nimona

I was trying to wrap up our #literacy team meeting this morning. One of my team members told me not to rush it because the conversation we were having would be one of the best any of us would have all day. And my heart has been so full ever since. And he was right. I love my team so much.

I chatted with a student today and they also like the feelings of nostalgia they get from reading Dogman. And part of that nostalgia is for when reading felt fun

So funny. I just pulled Nimona off the shelf for one of my chronic Dogman readers

They are both good, and I'm all for kids reading what they like, but we're trying to get our high schoolers to choose something a little more mature. What are things that are moving into upper MG and YA that have a similar vibe?

We're trying to figure out what they love about it. So far we have:
- scatological humor
- fast paced action
- vignettes
- graphic format
- action/plot rather the character focused

What else?
#ITeachEnglish #AdolescentLiteracy #YABookChat