Treasure Chest of Thoughts

Today I began my first day of my first Advanced Placement Summer Institute (APSI).  It’s quite the natural high to sit in a room with twenty-plus teachers who have the same dream:  to become an even better teacher than they were before arriving on the Arkansas State University Campus.

Still over-whelmed with what to teach and how to organize what I will teach, I did come away with something very valuable for an AP English program:  vertical alignment. 

The example we were given begins in third grade! Wow! 

I like the idea of knowing as a team, a department, what we expect our students to know when they graduate from our institution of learning. 

To be strong, to be proud, to enable our students, this is a step that we must further consider.