Teacher To Do List

Because a plan is not a plan unless you write it down...

To Do List to Improve as a Teacher 
(for the summer and throughout next year).

• Improve as a writer of podcasts. Expand to interviews/conversations. Publish them more frequently.
• Actively participate in the Talks with Teachers reading group online.
• Revise my YA novel (again) and resubmit/query it (again). Stay on it.
• Write, develop, the children's picture book outlines I put together this year.
• Continue to share resources with colleagues in my building and around the world.
• Continue to engage and participate in opportunities with the professional network of mentors and teacher leaders: Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project (NWP).
• Get to know the students better in class and out of class (attend more of their events).

Brighton Beach by Edward Henry Potthast

• Take time and opportunity to mentor and be a good example (the best kind of mentor).
• Track student independent reading more efficiently.
• In addition to free-choice and open-ended writing, use the blog for student writing about strengths, weaknesses, goal-setting, reflection, and documenting struggles and successes.