Hi, My name is Jennifer. I prefer Jen, but my parents were far too formal for that. I am a regular, hard working, educator..trying to help teachers make sense of 'the shifts' and the hard work of teaching in the CCSS era. (forget that, teaching is hard. PERIOD.)
Full disclosure: I am no longer in the classroom. I work in a central office, in an East Coast, urban district, leading the work of the Elementary Literacy team. With that said, however, I am in schools. I still teach kids. I listen to teachers. I plan with teachers. I laugh with teachers. Heck, I have cried with a few...
Here, I plan to record my findings: while I am employed by a school district, the views here are my own...