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Feb 06 2010

Epilogue to Volume I of [ABCDE]

Donate Now Dear Library Donors, With semester one over, I have closed one volume and have begun another in my [ABCDE] series on teaching.  Volume II is already overflowing with surprises, since I am following three almost completely new groups of students.  (This is, alas, what happens when your school is on a 4×4 block…

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Donate Now In the month or so since its unveiling, the library has grown into a central part—if not the center—of my English classroom. To refresh your memory, here is the library before the project began. Here is the library as it stands now (the book-raising phase is over, but books continue to trickle in).…

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Oct 31 2009

A “Just Right” Library

The generosity and support have been unbelievable.  Every day, I come to school and find a big stack of boxes precariously perched on my pulled-out metal mailbox or scattered like confetti in the mail room.  The secretary gives me a daily update on the number of packages that have arrived.  One morning, the principal pulled…

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