The Many Ways to Write by Purviben Trivedi-Ziemba

I am a mom, an educator & a lifelong learner in a bibliophile family.  Our daughter will be taking her ACT next month, I will be taking my Praxis in April.  I am planning to go back to the classroom after a long hiatus and will need to network, rebuild my teaching muscles and prove myself to me as well as others. 

There are a couple of things standing between me and the classroom including transferring my teaching license from Georgia to Wisconsin, signing a contract and being prepared to teach tech-savvy kids. Meanwhile, I am fortifying my teacher toolbox, collaborating and learning with my peers. 

 My goal is to read 100 books this year and thoroughly reflect on them. I've already read 6.  I also want to write. These are my writing goals for 2018:

• Reflecting on the books I read and review these books.  Connecting with authors of these books will be a good idea too. Hmm! 
• Read everything from textbooks to journals to blogs to comics and take notes.
• Write successful applications that result in a teaching contract for the 2018-19 school year.
• Write each day, including weekends, with my kids.  This will be free writing for 7 minutes at the end of the day. We will pull names for who is going to give a prompt for the day. We may compile a jar full of quotes, ideas and such. The sky is the limit here!  Our first prompt was: “In the Beginning”. Would the one on December 31st be “At the end of the year”
• Write a book of poems. Putting pen to paper is the name of the game here.
• Share ideas.  Write a guest post each month?  Get a column in the local newspaper or a website such as Middleweb will be a nifty idea too, ya?
• 365 days of excellence & experiences: write a blog post each day by sharing a slice of my life, a teaching lesson, a thought, reviewing these Saturday-night movies...
• Snail mail connections: Putting pen to paper will allow me to connect with friends and family via snail mail.
• Thank you notes. Need I say more?
• Keep track of expenses. Usually, we dutifully track expenses for a couple of months. Then miss a day which then turns into every day. We may or may not catch up.  This year, a new notebook has been decorated & my goal is not to miss any day.

Now it's your turn:



Purviben K. Trivedi-Ziemba is a mom, an educator & a learner.   She loves cooking and spending time with her family, reading, knitting and gardening.  With a Master’s degree in Middle Grades Education and Gifted Endorsement, while on a hiatus from teaching at the moment, she is mentoring STEM Scouts and getting ready to teach a class of her own.  She writes about her journey, her love of reading and wonder of science at http://trivediziemba.edublogs.org/.  You can also connect with her on twitter at @TrivediZiemba

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