Professional Learning for Busy Educators

The power of choice is something I want my students to know and embrace. The way I figure, if I model making good choices, the kids will understand choosing more deeply. Perhaps this is even more the case when I model bad decision-making, which I try to keep to a minimum. I need to provide my students with the freedom to make choices for themselves, and to live with the results.

This year, I discovered an amazing tool to begin this process as I introduced the idea of symbolism and a new read-aloud. I’m calling this discovery “harnessing the power of paper airplanes.”