I am taking a coaching class this fall that is centered around writing. I do believe the instructor is going to have everyone develop their own blog to keep posts about how our coaching in writing is going. This will be the only reason, probably, why I will continue to blog. I think it would be a very useful tool when thinking about the professional development aspect of my job, but blogging is not a common topic in the district where I work as it is off limits. Teachers are not allowed to keep classroom blogs, therefore, I'm quite certain they do not know the ins and outs of one, and wouldn't be inclined to follow one for PD purposes. I probably would be more inclined to continue blogging on a regular basis if someone were inclined to read it!
I am excited, however, to explore some of the digital media sites that I looked into for the purposes of creating my curriculum. I think once I learn more about those and how they can expand students' knowledge of writing, I can provide some PD at grade level meetings about them.
It was helpful to get some of my thoughts about the CCSS and even the summary of my comparison paper of Singapore and US education down. Putting thoughts on "paper" makes you think more deeply about them and analyze those thoughts with a different lens. It was also very useful to review chapters 1-4 and summarize them as it had been a bit since I read them (plus many other items). There was some useful information in them and helped me to form my curriculum plan.
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