Summer often feels like it flies by. I think a large part of that is that I am always busy. I am busy planning for the next school year,...

End Strong As the year closes out, I always have my classes do a choice-heavy multiform (thanks, Paul) project. It has been a long year...

This week I had the pleasure of sharing the work of my students and the inspirations that I get to learn from to better help my students...

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This morning as I walked into school, a student excitedly greeted me "Mr. Gilson, look at my comic; it's finished!" I was blown away just...

Tomorrow I will share two sessions at our local teacher's convention on our work in room 157. The first is a look at multimodal...

I set this site up to help teachers and provide a space to learn together. Lifting Literacy has been a concept that brought together my...

Where It Began I started looking at multimodal composition when I saw some of the work that Paul Hankins was having students complete. I...

Students returned this week and it really has been a whirlwind from start to finish. Classes are very full and just making room to sit...

Summer is coming to an end. It has been a restful and weird summer. Starting with Covid we set a tone for just reading, tanning, and...