Our LVWP site team has just returned from NWP's Annual Meeting and we are JAZZED! We return renewed and re-energized with ideas, action plans, and ways to re-vision.
I thought about all of you often as you are heading towards the finish line of your inquiry process and getting ready to publish. One of my sessions, Inquiry as a Political Act, offered a quote from Renee Moore author of Going Public with Our Teaching. She likens the process of inquiry to "digging for buried treasure in our own back yard." Consider this. You are diving in, dusting off years of prior sediment, gathering treasure right in your own classroom.
Hopefully you have uncovered several fabulous nuggets and, perhaps, inquiry paper writing has begun. Maybe you are setting some time aside during the upcoming holiday weekend to sift through some of your findings and start compiling your treasure map that has lead you to this point. Regardless, it is time for action!
Your due date is upcoming and it will sneak up behind you if you don't take purposeful steps towards completing your inquiry paper. Take time to look at the rubric so you are able to start/continue thinking within those three categories. Sift through your data and, certainly, begin to WRITE!
I would like to offer a time(s) to meet so you are able to write and confer with each other. This time could also be used to troubleshoot and work through the process and proportioning of your paper (25/50/25). Although it is not necessary that I am present, I would love to be with you through this time. I am available in the evenings and on Saturdays (mornings are better). Please let me know if the Lehigh Valley Mall area or the Center Valley Promenade Shops would be a better meeting place. This time is available to one or many. (I will have to plan ahead for childcare, so the sooner I know the better...just in case.)
This is not mandatory. It is offered to help block out time to write and work as a team. Just think, digging for treasure is rarely accomplished without a team effort!
