Post it Notes in the Classroom

There are schools in our district with big beautiful dry erase board walls. And unfortunately, it is not my campus. I see a lot of cool things happening on these walls, but I had a mini "ah-ha" moment this week. 

Sometimes you don't need fancy - just functional. 

After student-teacher writing conferences, I had students share out via Post-It notes one strength and one struggle in their essay. This was a great way to visually see our collective strengths and struggles. It also provided students with a built in feeling of safety because students could see that at least one other person shared their same struggles.

Other Ways I Use Post-It Notes in High School English:

- Brainstorming examples for essays that can move from the "Kernel Essay" to the draft

- Easy (no cutting or gluing) "foldables" in our notebooks. We use stickies to create flaps and write info under them.

- Hashtag lists for themes

There are a million other great ways to use Post-It's. If you don't have walls to write on, you can still make it work!