Judy Lindquist

This week a new journalism club was launched at my school. Open to 4th and 5thgraders, two other teachers and I are sponsoring this...

Banned Books Week starts today! This is a week designed to raise awareness of censorship and to celebrate the freedom to read. First...

Mundane tasks. Those routine, repetitive, sometimes boring, often mindless tasks that must be done. They are a necessary part of any...

The world is a tough place. Things don’t always go as planned. Disappointment is par-for-the-course. Challenges and obstacles seem to...

I am an American Public-School Teacher. I am not “indoctrinating” children. I am not “grooming” children. I am educating students. I...

I have been thinking a lot about journals and diaries and notebooks lately. This week I “took custody” of my paternal grandfather’s...

We live in a world full of feedback. Simply put, our action gets a result, and whether or not that is the result we wanted, we know...

This is the moment every writer works for! When they can send their newly published book out into the world! Although this is my fourth...

What will your physical space say about your values? That was a question that was posed to the new teachers during our induction sessions...

I just spent this last week as part of our county’s Great Beginnings Team of facilitators. This is a week in which the teachers who are...

Apparently, there is a new trend in home decorating in which books are shelved facing backward, so their spines are inside and all you...

I was recently chatting with my 9 year old granddaughter about how her swim team practices were going. Now that she was a few weeks into...

It has certainly been an eventful and stressful few weeks. With the challenges of covid still on the fringes of our everyday life, even...

Earlier this month I had the privilege of attending a week-long Teacher Institute on Early American History. It was intense, inspiring,...

I have been thinking a great deal about letters lately. Last week, I had the privilege of participating in a George Washington Summer...

Whether you count summer as starting on the official day when the sun reaches its northernmost point (June 21st this year), or the...

I recently finished reading the book The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron, and while I thoroughly enjoyed the book, it was her...

Well, year #28 as an elementary school teacher is now in the books. I have spent this last week, packing up my classroom for the summer....

Journal Writing is a pretty broad category. It can be as open-ended as a diary-like book in which personal random thoughts and ideas are...

The first week of May is our National Teacher Appreciation Week. It is a week when students and parents everywhere shower the teachers in...