Danielle Holtz | Marginalia

I still can’t quite believe I’m here. This will be my last post as a graduate student. Next week I’ll begin my full-time teaching position..

Graduation weekend at Columbia is always a raucous, joyful time. Manifest takes over almost the entirety of the South Loop, and you ca..

Student work is regularly displayed in the hallways at most schools these days, so much so that we spend a bit of time in graduate sch..

My formal unit is almost complete. My students have reflected on their writing, rewritten one selected work, reviewed it with a friend..

Integration of subject matter is a teaching goal that’s talked about a lot both in the field and at Columbia. It’s most frequently dis..

I haven’t really shared much of my formal unit yet, but I’m very proud of it and hope to share the summative assessment once the stude..

Student teachers live and die by their planners. We plot out and pinpoint every new lesson we want to write, where we want that lesson..

Occasionally I hold the distinction of being the kind of person who sees a problem and tries their best to fix it. This is not somethi..