Hello all! I am super excited to share my tentative plans for my workshops with you all! First, I want to say that these plans are incredibly flexible– I want to offer assistance and help to each and every student who wants to start reading. Every reader is different, so there’s no way to set an exact plan for each workshop. That being said, my … Continue reading March Post 2: Workshop Plan

Hi everyone! In this blog post I want to lay out my plans for the rest of the year, and some goals I would like to achieve. Tomorrow kicks off the start of my workshops, so I have been busy planning them for the past few days. I am really looking forward to getting to work with students over a longer duration of time on … Continue reading Second Semester Signature Plan

I am finally starting to launch my workshops! I just have to finalize my plans with Ms. Buinicky, but soon enough I will start helping students start a free reading habit! Ms. Sanwal actually gave me some really good ideas that I might also include in my project. She said that I should find students who are willing to share about the books they are … Continue reading February Post 2

This month I was able to interview Ms. Sanwal, and it was so nice to speak with her. Even though I have never had her as a teacher, through our shared love of books it felt like I was talking with someone I had known for a long time. My experience with these interviews– how they’ve connected me with faculty I never would have spoken … Continue reading February Post 1: Interview

Now that I am about half way through my interviews (and through the year) I want to give an update on my plans for this project. Workshops First is that I will be starting my workshops to get more students into reading this semester (yay!). I am so excited to start to host these, and to use the information I got from my interviews in … Continue reading January Post 2: Update on Project

This month I have started interviewing a member of each department at Emma to learn teachers’ perspectives on the value of reading. Each interview has been incredibly interesting and insightful! I am so excited to continue to speak with different teachers over the course of the next few weeks! Teachers I have interviewed: Very briefly, I am going to list out the teachers I have … Continue reading January Post 1: Interviews

Hello again! For this update, I just want to talk a little about a website Dr. Dettmar recommended to me, and go into my plans for over-break work on this project. The website is NPR’s Book Concierge (link: https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2020 ) and in it you will find a comprehensive guide to over 2,500 books, with links to connect each book. The books are reccomended to you … Continue reading December Post 2

For another update into my project, I just wanted to outline my plans for the next few weeks, leading up to second semester. Right now, my plans include: doing more research into the benefits of reading–specifically looking at the difference in benefits between fiction, non-fiction, and textbooks. Then, I plan to organize interviews with teachers at Emma, asking about the benefits they have found in … Continue reading December Post 1

Feynman, R. P. (1963). Six Easy Pieces. Basic Books.  “[T]he best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher– a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things.”-Feynman I think that this is my favorite Feynman quote of all time, and I just had to … Continue reading Annotated Bibliography

A letter from Sophia:  Hi Everyone! This year I have moved my project from a Practicum to a Signature, so I will be expanding this website and offering new opportunities as part of my project. In my Signature project, I will be running workshops for students both to help establish healthy reading habits and to increase free-reading overall. I will also still be running this … Continue reading The Future of This Project