Indexed Tales

Books about Writing
Writing About Reading Books About Writing #1 'Bird by Bird' - Anne Lamott
Writing About Reading Books About Writing #2 'On Writing' - Stephen King

Writing About Reading Books About Writing #3 'The Luminous Solution' - Charlotte Wood

Writing About Reading Books About Writing #4 'Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear' - Elizabeth Gilbert

A Writerly Life #teacherswhowrite
A Writerly Life - Developing a Writer's Notebook 1/4
A Writerly Life - Generating Ideas for the Writer's Notebook 2/4
A Writerly Life - Suggested Texts for Writing Inspiration 3/4
A Writerly Life - A Publishing Idea 4/4

Writing Teachers
Meetup at WestWords
Meet-up at Penrith Regional Gallery
The Writing Teacher - Maintaining a Writing Life
ETA Writing Teachers - Penrith Regional Gallery & MAAS
Life Writing

Writing Activities

Writer's Notebooks for Kids

Reflections on the Life of a Teacher Librarian

#1

The Nancie Atwell Files
Review Reading #1 'The Reading Zone' - Nancie Atwell
Review Reading #2 'Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School' - Nancie Atwell
Review Reading #3 'In the Middle, Third Edition - A Lifetime of Learning About Writing, Reading, and Adolescents' - Nancie Atwell
Atwell's 'In the Middle'
Being an Intern at the Center for Teaching and Learning

Professional Learning - Conferences
NSW ETA Conference 2015:
Off with their Heads! Deconstructing Student Writing

NSW ETA Conference 2016:
'Let it be an art' The Magic of Creative Writing in the Classroom

NSW ETA 2017:
Write Right
Atwell's Writers and Readers at Work

AATE/ALEA National Conference 2017:
Write Right: Authentic Engagement with Creative Writing

ETA Early Career Teachers' Big Day 2020

Teaching Creative Writing

ETA Early Career Teachers Your Big Day 2021

Teaching Creating Writing

Great Texts
'Through the Woods' by Emily Carroll
Early literacy

Professional Learning
FutureLearn - Start Writing Fiction
STEM and English!

Study

Back to University
Back to University - Things to Remember

LCN616: Inquiry Learning — Designing with inquiry

LCN600: Connected Learning

LCN600 Critical Analysis of the Connected Learning Environment

LCN600 Map 1 Connected Learning Environment and Map 2 Professional Learning Network

LCN600 Professional Learning Network

Musings About Teaching
Why teach? My TOP TEN Reasons
Presenting for Nervous Introverts Who Struggle to be in the Spotlight

Teaching Ideas
A few ideas for Google Docs!
Project #3 Readying Owen
Project #2 Writing and all things about writing, the written word, vocabulary, spelling, etc. etc.

Organisation
Teacher Hacks
Getting organised!
Coordinating the NAPLAN
Lesson Observations and Feedback
Project #1 Reviewing Assessment

English Teaching Resourcing
The BEST English Teaching Resources - Purchasing Pointers 1/3
The BEST English Teaching Resources - Worthwhile Texts for the English Teacher 2/3
The BEST English Teaching Resources - On the Wish List 3/3
'Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life'
Playing with Poetry with A.F. Harrold
Investigating Ideology: Exploring Representation in Texts (Unit and Resources)
Writing Strategies for Stages 3 and 4
All is right in the (teaching) world... 1/5

Marking
Marking Season

Reflections on the Life of an English Head Teacher
Reflections on Week 1, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 2, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 3, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 4, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 5, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 6, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 7, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 8, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 9, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 10, Term 1, 2020
Reflections on Week 11, Term 1, 2020

Reflections on Term 2, 2020

Reflections on Term 3, 2020

Musings
Preparing for 2020
Preparing for 2020
Writing, planning, reading websites I love...