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A Note from Alan & the BookJam Team

Topic of the Moment: Did you go to NCTE? Did you see Alan's panel session? Let us know your reactions to the conference!

Alan & the BookJam Team

Forum

Jennah Watters

What are you teaching right now? 3 Replies

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Nov 25.

Jennah Watters

Laurie Halse Anderson books being threatened with bans 9 Replies

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Oct 3.

Jennah Watters

Obama and Duncan want kids in school longer 4 Replies

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Joe Fatheree Sep 30.

Alex Kajitani- The Rappin' Mathematician

Hip-Hop in the Classroom is Here to Stay! 1 Reply

Started by Alex Kajitani- The Rappin' Mathematician. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Sep 25.

Jeremy Rinkel

Cellphones in the Classroom...A Nuisance or a tool? 5 Replies

Started by Jeremy Rinkel. Last reply by Joe Fatheree Sep 17.

Jennah Watters

College grad rate for minorities/low-income dropping 1 Reply

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Isaac Sep 11.

Jennah Watters

How do you battle burnout? 8 Replies

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Joe Fatheree Aug 13.

Alan Sitomer

Kids with heart... 2 Replies

Started by Alan Sitomer. Last reply by Jennah Watters Aug 7.

Alan Sitomer

How have the budget cuts affected you? 9 Replies

Started by Alan Sitomer. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Jul 31.

Rich Bordner

What a Bunch of Bullfeathers 17 Replies

Started by Rich Bordner. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Jul 31.

Blog Posts

Spaz Thoreau

A Thanksgiving Wish

Here's a scenario for you: You have a headache for a week. You keep taking aspirin to relieve your symptoms, but the headache continues to stay. You refuse to see the doctor because you think you can get by just fine, that if you tough it out, eventually it goes away. It doesn't. The headache stays for weeks, then months, and you have it for years. Other symptoms spring up, so you take drugs for those, too, but you still feel miserable every day. In fact, by this point you have become dependent… Continue

Posted by Spaz Thoreau on November 25, 2009 at 11:18am

Alan Sitomer

Giving Thanks for this Ning

It’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and goodness, gracious do I need to give me some thanks for this ning. I mean wow! It’s changed my professional life.

Last Thanksgiving, I am not sure if I even knew what a ning was. This Thanksgiving, I am pretty resolved at this point to not even bother to write any more professional development books (even though a host of publishers are asking me to do so right now) simply because I am pretty much scratching every “write a book of professional developm… Continue

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 25, 2009 at 5:30am

Alan Sitomer

The exhilarated exhaustion

There comes a tiredness with having attended a big conference, a sense of exhilarated exhaustion that inevitably catches up to almost all attendees that do not live in the host city.

However, it’s the good kind of “spent”, the kind that comes with having tapped into a host of personal reserves.

For me, the draining derives as a result… Continue

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 24, 2009 at 5:00am

Alan Sitomer

Teaching teens is good stuff

As we enter Thanksgiving week it really is a time for me to recognize how much my students mean to me. I truly am a better human being because they are in my life.

They make me smile, laugh, hurt, angry, and tear up. They also make me proud, ashamed, hopeful and fearful.

And sometimes they do this back to back to back as if it's all ha… Continue

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 23, 2009 at 5:10am

Alan Sitomer

I am privileged to be at NCTE and more should enjoy the same.

Being at NCTE once again proves the point that mandatory conference attendance and professional development needs to become a prime focus if we are really going to elevate the performance of our schools.

I can't even begin to cover the amount of dynamic, sound, invigorating and readily appli… Continue

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 21, 2009 at 5:30am

 
 

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Nerd Fest 09... I love it!
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Sounds like good stuff. Using inquiry in the classroom is always a nice way to add depth, scope and breath to a project.
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Thanks Emily!
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I've been working on Writer's Purpose, personal narrative writing and some intense writing instruction for Timed Writing Prompts a la Kelly Gallagher. I'm about to start a unit using Burro Genius by Victor Villasenor focusing on the essential que...
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Congrats! Can't wait to read it!
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YAY! It was great to meet you face to face today!! Awesome presentation! My friend and I were all fired up. We talked about all of our ideas about projects we could do and ways we can change our projects! WOOT! Nerd fest 09!!! YAY!!!
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Being at NCTE once again proves the point that mandatory conference attendance and professional development needs to become a prime focus if we are really going to elevate the performance of our schools. I can't even begin to cover the amount of ...
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For those of you attending NCTE, Alan is on a panel discussion. Stop by and say hello! The BookJam booth is #429. Session: E.08 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm 11/20/2009 Format: Panel Room: Convention Center/Room 201A, Level 2 Topic: Reading Level(s): Gene...
November 19

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