Mac & Marie

02/27/2024

My name is Matt Mazauskas, I’m a high school teacher in NYC and want to… Matthew Mazauskas needs your support for Graffiti Arts Experience for NYC HS Students

02/23/2024

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My name is Matt Mazauskas, I’m a high school teacher in NYC and want to… Matthew Mazauskas needs your support for Graffiti Arts Experience for NYC HS Students

03/12/2023

Check out my post! http://macandmarie.org/2023/03/11/classroom-redo-part-1/

03/11/2023

Over the pandemic, a lot of things at my school were lost or thrown away. This included all the floor seats, a floor mat and folding chairs for the lesson area. One bench remains. Due to this, my principal had ordered some new flexible seating as this is his goal for all of our reading rooms within the next year or two....

Over the pandemic, a lot of things at my school were lost or thrown away. This included all the floor seats, a floor mat and folding chairs for the lesson area. One bench remains. Due to this, my p…

10/18/2022

Pretty pretty books. Stamping a new shipment today!

10/16/2022

We read so many books it can be hard to remember the special gems that have inspired us, illuminated what it really means to be a teacher or helped us we envision ourselves anew, so we thought it would be fun to share some of our life-changing quotes. Here is the first one from a book I highly recommend for anybody who teaches writing.

10/16/2022

10/16/2022

As a writing teacher of immigrant teenagers, centering my students’ agency is even more important. I do this in part by acknowledging their need for choice over genre, topic and more. But this book has also shifted how I see the teaching of craft and has helped me place the “choices authors make” discussion I have with my students into a more historically and culturally accurate context. —Mac

10/16/2022

A great book for this who are new to teaching writing and want to teach skills and concepts for transfer — to empower students to apply what they are learning in new writing situations.

10/16/2022

I think most teachers would agree with us but so few are supported with curriculum or curricular approaches that actually lead from this.

10/16/2022

Half our Reading list while researching and working on

10/16/2022

Books looking pretty