Oona Marie Abrams

The first #ThesisoftheWeek for November is up on the #PoetryasPractice Blog. This week's poem is "Gate C22" by Ellen Bass. #writingpractice #formativeassessments #writetolearn #writetothink #createtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

TGIF! Just got home to my favorite kind of mail: book mail! Penguin Random House sent me this advance reader copy.

October's final #ThesisoftheWeek is up! This week's poem is "Dust" by Danusha Lameris. #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice docs.google.com/document/d/1...

First time presenting at NJSBA. What a gift it is every day to work with these amazing ladies. And a joy to share our journey with others and build our PLN! #professionallearning #NJEd #edleadership #presenttolearn

How apropos! I've finished reading & writing beside this brilliant book this AM for National Day on Writing! 30 notebook pages on my writing identity, why writing matters now more than ever, and the whats, whys & hows of the process #WhyIWrite #MyPersonalPD #PDBookClub #AmWriting #NCTEChat #CELChat

#ThesisoftheWeek for Week 3 of October is inspired by a beautiful poem by Marjorie Saiser entitled "Crane Migration: Platte River." Find this prompt & others on the Poetry as Practice Blog! (Photo credits: Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy & USGS) poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Fun #YALit connection: www.gaepolisner.com/the-pull-of-...

Tim Dowling: I love books – but can’t remember anything about the ones I’ve just read In bed I lie awake, staring at the books on my nightstand, trying to remember a single salient fact about any of them

Tom Newkirk said it ages ago in The Art of Slow Reading. The act of reading is the act of forgetting. We can’t remember it all. We have to decide what to forget…

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The latest #ThesisoftheWeek has been posted on my Poetry as Practice blog. This week's stimulus text is "Bread" by Richard Levine. Use and share if you would like! poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Job perk! Our middle school ELA, ESL, and special services teachers got to book shop for high-interest informational nonfiction this week. #BuildYourStack #ShelfieTalk #TitleTalk #BookLove #Nonfiction 📚🤓📖🛋️🛒🎒

Myron Dueck’s Giving Students a Say was a hit with us! I’ve even got a schedule for it if you decide on that title.

Love that the Papermill offered our staff the opportunity to come and see this! Such fun last evening. #lovewhereyoulive

This week's #ThesisoftheWeek is based on the poem "Bending Sound" by Paula Gordon Lepp. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Ya know… just an average day hangin with Jay McTighe #fangirling #understandingbydesign #curriculum #nerdgirl #proudnerd #curriculumnerd

Agree 100%. I'd say more, but I don't want to give away the lie.

Today’s #bookmail #BuildYourStack #MyPersonalPD

Just finished this #versenovel #novelinverse #MGLit #YALit

Very cool!

Rounding the bend into October, & here is the fifth installment of #ThesisoftheWeek based on the poem "Belonging" by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer. And, yes, this is a way of getting more poems into the hands of young people! #poetry #writingpractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

… I can’t imagine any version of me that’s like: I’m good y’all! I’ve arrived. I’m here to lead you because I have all the expertise. Nope! Sometimes the systemic pressures are the root cause of impostor syndrome. Systems love to protect themselves against change.

This. In a leadership role, it’s 10 times worse. Super stressful. Because even when I am consciously doing something I know will be helpful, those shame tapes play! And yes… 25+ years of classroom experience, published, led PD. It’s the worst! But…

My #library #bookhaul Loved reading these titles over the past days. From these, I’ve requested more titles by these authors & illustrators. Anthologies are great resources to learn about creators! #buildyourstack #kidlit #picturebooksofinstagram #bookstagram #teachergram #titletalk #shelfietalk

On Leadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection. Thursday, October 23, 7 pm ET. with Kara B Douma, Nicholas Emmanuele, Sawsan Jaber, Liz Lietz, and Jenelle Williams. CEL, A Constituent Group of NCTE.

On Leadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection. Thursday, October 23, 7 pm ET. Literacy leaders will explore schools' processes for selecting secondary classroom literature; learn methods to support teachers in enhancing students' experiences; and discuss challenges to texts that affirm students and honor communities. CEL, A Constituent Group of NCTE.

#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection

Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.

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And now I want to read Being There again…

a woman in a dress is standing in a room and talking to emily dickinson . ALT: a woman in a dress is standing in a room and talking to emily dickinson .

Emily Dickinson said “Much madness is divinest sense” so there’s that too!

@joellenmccarthy.bsky.social My #LibraryHaul after attending @theedcollab.bsky.social Fall Gathering yesterday! 💜 #BuildYourStack #BookLove #KidLit

“A writing voice is crafted by where you live your reading life.” Katie Wood Ray ♥️♥️♥️ @theedcollab.bsky.social #thedcollabgathering.

It was 1996 and I was told not to smile before Christmas. But can ya still kinda see me smiling? 😆

Thesis of the Week: "Basilico" by Sue Ann Gleason Stimulus text: “Basilico” by Sue Ann Gleason Thesis 1: In the poem “Basilico” by Sue Ann Gleason, the speaker addresses a family member whose memory fails her. The poet’s choice of words emphasizes ...

It's Week 4 of #ThesisoftheWeek and the poem for thesis practice this week is "Basilico" by Sue Ann Gleason: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Picture of whiteboard with brainstorm

Always a favorite activity. The title seems simple…until we start mapping the connotations of each word, unlocking meaning and anticipation.

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