M. Colleen Cruz

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In addition to being the author of The Unstoppable Writing Teacher, M. Colleen Cruz is the author of several other titles for teachers, including Independent Writing and A Quick Guide to Helping Struggling Writers, as well as the author of the young adult novel Border Crossing, a Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award Finalist. Colleen was a classroom teacher in general education and inclusive settings before joining the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project where she is Director of Innovation. Colleen presently supports schools, teachers and their students nationally and internationally as a literacy consultant.

Nothing to Erase

When I was second grader, like many kids from a certain time, there was one classroom job above any others that I vied for: board eraser.


 


It involved erasing the chalkboards daily, washing them on Friday with a wet rag (nothing worked better) and clapping the erasers outside to clean them. There was something so incredibly satisfying about completely erasing the board so that not even the tiniest

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“I encourage you to consider, just for this moment, your teaching as crafting a sand mandala. You go through your year, a year that took many years and months to prepare for. You create something beautiful and intricate and exquisite to admire. Then, you sweep it away. You drop it into the river of teaching time as a blessing for your future teaching self, for other teachers, and more importantly, all the children who have not yet been taught.”
M. Colleen Cruz, The Unstoppable Writing Teacher: Real Strategies for the Real Classroom




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