![]() Sometimes they have so many other things impacting their daily lives that writing in our rooms just isn’t something they value. We can’t control what is going on in our students’ lives outside our rooms, either. We can’t always control curriculum, though, and sometimes feel hemmed in by state or district curriculum requirements. Many times, helping a student begin is not about the student at all–it’s about the curriculum and the need for that student to have some choice and see relevance in the writing. It means I’ve had lots of opportunities to work with some growly, resistant writers lately. We’ve identified students who are struggling in the regular curriculum and work with their teachers to fill in skill gaps as necessary through one on one work or small group instruction. He never bit anyone or snapped, but he really had to trust you to warm up to you.įor the past two years, I’ve had the privilege of doing MTSS (multi-tiered system of support) literacy support work with the general education students in my school for half of my day. If you got up in his face, you’d hear a low, warning grumble coming from the back of his throat. ![]() The thing about Beaumont was that he wasn’t always pleasant. Before you get offended on their behalf ( She’s comparing children to a dog?!), I need to stress that my love for my dog makes this a high, high compliment. He crossed the rainbow bridge a few years ago, but I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately because I have some writers who remind me of him. I used to be the proud mother of this beautiful beast: Beaumont Maguire, an exceptional example of a St.
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