February+16th

The strategy in the article that I am striving to implement in my classroom is giving my students personal notes throughout the year. I feel that these types of messages are beneficial to teachers as well as students and they allow even the most "troubled students" to feel special. My previous attempts have been haphazard at best because I have not found a strategy that allows me to write to all of my students at the same time. After reading about Angie's strategy in the reading, feel that I could try to have students write notes to me as part of the Do Now and keep my responses short and sweet so I would not spend 10 minutes writing back one response to a student or I could write a one letter as a response to the class with personal tidbits. Though, I wonder how would I make it personal enough for all my kids to be invested in the response letter.

Having students to create Double Entry Journals on some occasions sounds like a great idea to work on my students writing in my Math Foundations Seminar. However, my seminar is for remediation and teaching the structure of writing Double Entry Journals to my students feels daunting.