A change-up, swap-up, freshen-up
A sparkling, shiny new sextet for the week. My students return to campus this week. A fresh set greets them.
Four new pen-and-ink combinations enter rotation this week. The KACO, Narwhal, Kaweco and Pilot all sport round, unground nibs. The first days of a school year a whirlwinds of activity. Quick jottings abound. And desk surfaces are not always available while writing. Round nibs are forgiving, even at odd angles.
The bits and bobs of my teaching bullet journal: Meeting logs
I live in my teaching bullet journal during the school year. The notebook houses everything from curriculum revision to my day-to-day task lists to a host of meeting notes. Brainstorms on lesson sequencing, calendars pacing assignments to fit students’ needs, and periodic analytic reflections to assess whether what I intend to teach is what I’m actually communicating.
This week: the deceptively simple meeting log.
Thinking via the notes I take, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On taking notes. On thinking via notes. Notes that help me read actively in dialogue with an author’s own thinking. And how the ways I take notes, and the tools I take notes with, influence my thinking.
It’s the little things we do together, a mnml guest post
Reflecting on how to start this guest blog post, I kept coming back to this one song lyric: “It’s the little things we do together ...” from Stephen Sondheim’s musical, Company. Sondheim’s show is devoted to the inner workings of married couples, their relationships with one another, and what they share together. Pens, for JP and I, are one of the many things we share.
A few weeks ago, Endless Pens sent out a pre-order for a new Opus 88. They partnered with Twenty Sides, who illustrated the cutest dog on the pen’s cap, “Naptime.” Naptime resembles JP’s editor, our sweet dog, Rumi.
Of course I needed the Rumi pen.